His two most recent books were exhaustively researched accounts of the CIA and of the bin Laden family.
Carlyle ended up asking the Bin Laden family to take back their money, and eventually the former government officials retired.
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Five new high-security prisons for militants, with room for thousands, are being built by none other than the bin Laden family's construction firm.
At the back end of the ground floor was a room where the bin Laden family would watch the sole TV in the compound.
Of particular interest, a Bahamas bank -- Bank al Taqwa, which is controlled by Nada-al Taqwa -- included several bin Laden family members among its shareholders.
The film also alleges Saudis, including those with links to the Bin Laden family, had funded oil and arms companies run by the Bush family and their inner circle.
'Somebody brought to us for approval the decision to let an airplane filled with Saudis, including members of the bin Laden family, leave the country, ' Clarke told Vanity Fair.
In addition to the bin Laden family, two other families resided in the compound: one family on the first floor of the bin Laden building, and one family in a second building.
On the face of it, the fact that a number of al Qaeda leaders and operatives and bin Laden family members found shelter in Iran is puzzling, as the Shia theocrats in the Iranian regime are hostile to the Sunni ultra zealots in al Qaeda, and vice versa.
Officials compared DNA of the person killed with bin Laden "family DNA, " a senior administration official said, and a senior U.S. defense official said one of bin Laden's wives identified the body to U.S. forces.
There was also a female, potentially a wife and children, whose family matched Osama bin Laden's potential family.
Bin Laden and his family were found on the second and third floor of the building.
Meanwhile, Pakistani officials have said bin Laden's family members will be repatriated to their home countries after their initial interrogations.
Pakistani intelligence officials believe this was part of a deal that finally allowed some of bin Laden's family to end their years of house arrest in Iran.
This was part of a deal that allowed some of bin Laden's family and al Qaeda members living under house arrest in Iran to depart, according to a Pakistani official familiar with the deal.
The appeals court said it found no reason to question Daniels' finding that support supposedly given to bin Laden by his family after 1993 and after he was removed as a shareholder from the company had no evidentiary support.
According to a Pakistani intelligence official familiar with the deal, al Qaeda released the diplomat back to Iran in 2010 as part of a negotiation that allowed some of bin Laden's family and al Qaeda members then living in Iran to leave.
Bin Laden and his extended family spent more than five years in a military town packed with retired generals.
He was constantly urging holy war to his followers, but when it came to his own family bin Laden was privately advocating something quite different.
"It was Clarke who personally authorized the evacuation by private plane of dozens of Saudi citizens, including many members of Osama bin Laden's own family, in the days immediately following September 11, " the Boston Herald notes in a March 26 editorial.
Osama bin Laden's relationship with his family was, from early on, ambivalent.
In addition to family wealth, Bin Laden has accumulated a substantial personal fortune through business and financial dealings and has dedicated himself to an anti-United States and anti-Western terror crusade, U.S. officials say.
During this period, Iran allowed in hundreds of senior figures of the Taliban - including family members of Osama Bin Laden.
Bin Laden is a son of a wealthy Saudi Arabian family whose affiliation with extremist and terror groups led to his exile from Saudi Arabia and his later deportation from Sudan.
The United States, meanwhile, is hoping that Britain's courts will soon agree to extradite a Saudi comrade of Mr bin Laden and fellow-opponent of the Saudi royal family called Khalid al-Fawwaz, as well as two Egyptians suspected of links to al-Qaeda.
As you undoubtedly know, (Osama) bin Laden is not only a Saudi citizen, but his family originated in Yemen.
Saudi officials had taken the lead back in the 1990s of trying to isolate Mr. bin Laden and limiting his ability to launch attacks against their ruling family and nation.
Osama bin Laden's primary goal is to overthrow the ruling Al Saud family of Saudi Arabia.
As widespread as frustration with the feudal rule of the al-Saud family may be, and as admiring of Osama bin Laden's riches-to-rags image as some Saudis are, the attacks on the kingdom's own soil have radically curtailed any lingering support for al-Qaeda.
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