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Osama's father Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden emigrated from Yemen to Saudi Arabia as a bricklayer and slowly built the largest Saudi construction firm. His secret was winning the trust of the Saudi King, Abdel Aziz ibn Saud, who reigned from 1932 to 1953. The King asked bin Laden to rebuild the sacred city of Mecca, and ever since, the bin Ladens have been responsible for construction in Mecca and Medina. After Mohammed's death in a plane crash in 1967, his sons built Saudi BinLaden Group into a multibillion-dollar enterprise. Recent ventures include building a freeway around...
Ibrahim's supporters contend that the trial's aim is to end his 25-year-career as one of the Arab world's leading democracy advocates. The charges, including those brought against 26 Egyptian and one Sudanese co-defendants, stem from work carried out by Ibn Khaldun, a research center founded by Ibrahim in 1988 and supported by a board that reads like an Egyptian Who's Who. Prosecutors say its projects were illegally funded by foreign sources, and that by alleging election fraud and discrimination against minority Coptic Christians, they undermined Egypt's standing. A press campaign smeared Ibrahim...
...case has halted Ibn Khaldun's work on issues ranging from population control to rehabilitating Islamic militants. It is also having a chilling effect on other advocacy groups, coming not long after restrictions were imposed on nongovernmental organizations seeking to develop a "civil society" outside government control. "People are afraid to be forward now," says veteran Egyptian commentator Salama Ahmed Salama. "They do not want the same thing to happen to them." Activists say the message that Egypt tolerates liberals little more than it does Islamic fundamentalists may dim the prospects for democracy elsewhere in the Arab world...