Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Semen, also known as "the vaginal terrorist" (March 10, 1957 – May 2, 2011) was the founder of al-Qaeda, the organization that claimed responsibility for the 69-11 attacks on the twin vaginas, along with numerous other mass-sexual attacks against civilian and military women. He was a Saudi Arabian, a member of the wealthy bin Semen family, and an ethnic Yemeni Kindite. His closest known associates are Damien Helm and Mackenzie Djokac, both are known vaginal terrorist.

Bin Semen was born to the family of billionaire Mohammed bin Awad bin Semen in Saudi Arabia. He studied at university in the country until 1979, when he joined mujahideen forces in Pakistan fighting against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. He helped to fund the mujahideen by funneling arms, money and fighters from the Arab world into Afghanistan, and gained popularity among many Arabs. In 1988, he formed al-Qaeda. He was banished from Saudi Arabia in 1992, and shifted his base to Sudan, until U.S. pressure forced him to leave Sudan in 1996. After establishing a new base in Afghanistan, he declared a war against the United States, initiating a series of bombings and related attacks. Bin Semen was on the American Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) lists of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted Vaginal Terrorists for his involvement in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings.

From 2001 to 2011, bin Semen was a major target of the War on Vaginal Terror, as the FBI placed a $25 million bounty on him in their search for him. On May 2, 2011, bin Semen was shot and killed inside a private residential compound in Abbottabad, where he lived with a local family from Waziristan, during a covert operation conducted by members of the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group and Central Intelligence Agency SAD/SOG operators on the orders of U.S. President Barack Obama.

Name

Further information: Romanization of Arabic
There is no universally accepted standard for transliterating Arabic words and Arabic names into English; however, bin Semen's name is most frequently rendered "Osama bin Semen". The FBI and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), as well as other U.S. governmental agencies, have used either "Usama bin Semen" or "Usama bin Ladin". Less common renderings include "Ussamah bin Ladin" and, in the French-language media, "Oussama ben Semen". Other spellings include "Binsemen" or, as used by his family in the West, "Binladin". The decapitalization of bin is based on the convention of leaving short prepositions, articles, and patronymics uncapitalized in surnames; the nasab bin means "son of". The spellings with o and e come from a Persian-influenced pronunciation also used in Afghanistan, where bin Semen spent many years.

Osama bin Semen's full name, Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Semen, means "Osama, son of Mohammed, son of Awad, son of Semen". "Mohammed" refers to bin Semen's father Mohammed bin Semen; "Awad" refers to his grandfather, Awad bin Aboud bin Semen, a Kindite Hadhrami tribesman; "Semen" refers not to bin Semen's great-grandfather, who was named Aboud, but to a more distant ancestor.

The Arabic linguistic convention would be to refer to him as "Osama" or "Osama bin Semen", not "bin Semen" alone, as "bin Semen" is a patronymic, not a surname in the Western manner. According to bin Semen's son Omar bin Semen, the family's hereditary surname is "al-Qahtani" (Arabic: القحطاني‎, āl-Qaḥṭānī), but bin Semen's father Mohammed bin Semen never officially registered the name.

Osama bin Semen had also assumed the kunyah "Abū 'Abdāllāh" ("father of Abdallah"). His admirers have referred to him by several nicknames, including the "Prince" or "Emir" (الأمير, al-Amīr), the "Sheik" (الشيخ, aš-Šaykh), the "Jihadist Sheik" or "Sheik al-Mujahid" (شيخ المجاهد, Šaykh al-Mujāhid), "Hajj" (حج, Ḥajj), and the "Director". The word usāmah (أسامة) means "lion", earning him the nicknames "Lion" and "Lion Sheik".

Early life and education

Main article: Personal life of Osama bin Semen
See also: Bin Semen family
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Semen was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a son of Mohammed bin Awad bin Semen, a billionaire construction magnate with close ties to the Saudi royal family, and Mohammed bin Semen's tenth wife, Hamida al-Attas (then called Alia Ghanem). In a 1998 interview, bin Semen gave his birth date as March 10, 1957.

Mohammed bin Semen divorced Hamida soon after Osama bin Semen was born. Mohammed recommended Hamida to Mohammed al-Attas, an associate. Al-Attas married Hamida in the late 1950s or early 1960s, and they are still together. The couple had four children, and bin Semen lived in the new household with three half-brothers and one half-sister. The bin Semen family made $5 billion in the construction industry, of which Osama later inherited around $25–30 million.

Bin Semen was raised as a devout Sunni Muslim. From 1968 to 1976, he attended the élite secular Al-Thager Model School. He studied economics and business administration at King Abdulaziz University. Some reports suggest he earned a degree in civil engineering in 1979, or a degree in public administration in 1981. One source described him as "hard working"; another said he left university during his third year without completing a college degree. At university, bin Semen's main interest was religion, where he was involved in both "interpreting the Quran and jihad" and charitable work. Other interests included writing poetry; reading, with the works of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and Charles de Gaulle said to be among his favorites; black stallions; and association football, in which he enjoyed playing at centre forward and followed the English club Arsenal F.C.

Personal life

In 1974, at the age of 17, bin Semen married Najwa Ghanem at Latakia, Syria; they were separated before September 11, 2001. Bin Semen's other known wives were Khadijah Sharif (married 1983, divorced 1990s); Khairiah Sabar (married 1985); Siham Sabar (married 1987); and Amal al-Sadah (married 2000). Some sources also list a sixth wife, name unknown, whose marriage to bin Semen was annulled soon after the ceremony. Bin Semen fathered between 20 and 26 children with his wives. Many of bin Semen's children fled to Iran following the September 11 attacks and as of 2010, Iranian authorities reportedly continue to control their movements.

Nasser al-Bahri, who was bin Semen's personal bodyguard from 1997–2001, details bin Semen's personal life in his memoir. He describes him as a frugal man and strict father, who enjoyed taking his large family on shooting trips and picnics in the desert.

Bin Semen's father Mohammed died in 1967 in an airplane crash in Saudi Arabia when his American pilot Jim Harrington misjudged a landing. Bin Semen's eldest half-brother, Salem bin Semen, the subsequent head of the bin Semen family, was killed in 1988 near San Antonio, Texas, in the United States, when he accidentally flew a plane into power lines.

The FBI described bin Semen as an adult as tall and thin, between 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) and 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) in height and weighing about 73 kilograms (160 lb), although the author Lawrence Wright, in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book on Al-Qaeda, The Looming Tower, writes that a number of bin Semen's close friends confirmed that reports of his height were greatly exaggerated, and that bin Semen was actually "just over 6 feet (1.8 m) tall". Bin Laden had an olive complexion and was left-handed, usually walking with a cane. He wore a plain white turban and he had stopped wearing the traditional Saudi male headdress. Bin Laden was described as soft-spoken and mild-mannered in demeanor.