Five Wives For 72 Virgins: Osama Bin Laden’s Women (PHOTOS)

Osama bin Laden is dead and gone, but he leaves behind a flood of baby mommas and children. One of them, Amal al-Sadah, became Bin Laden’s fifth wife when she was 18 and he was 43. al-Sadah was the wife that was shot by Navy SEALs as they entered Bin Laden’s compound.

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Five wives and 20 children later, the most sought after man in the world was surrounded by women his entire life. Bin laden was the 17th of 52 children, so we can imagine his sisters were constantly in his life.

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Bin Laden was first married at age 17 in 1974 to his cousin, they had 11 children before she left him. For the rest of his years until his death, Bin Laden would be in the constant company of women. 

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#1:

Najwa Ghanem was the first wife of Bin Laden. They married when he was 17, not to mention she was his first cousin. 

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#2:

Um Ali was Bin Laden’s second wife. More independent than the others, she divorced Bin Laden because she didn’t want to live the life he was living.

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#3:

Um Khalid, the third wife of Bin Laden, was the sister of a fellow Jihadist who was a religious law scholar.

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#4:

Um Hamza was Bin Laden’s fourth wife. She was well educated and had a degree in Arabic language.

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The 5th Wife:

Amal al-Sadah had three children for Bin Laden and they lived in the compound were he was killed. Al-Sadah was the women shot by the SEAL team that stormed the compound.