The Bin Ladens

Washington, D.C.; Afghan embassy in; Fahd summit in; Iridium in; 9/11 and; Saudi embassy in; see also White House

water

Watson, Dale

wazirs (ministers)

Weaver, Sigourney

Wechsler, William

Welch, Jack

“Western Banking Practices and Shari’a Law in Saudi Arabia” (Abdullah Bin Laden)

Westerns

White, Bill

White, Weld & Company

White House; counterterrorism office at; Iridium executives at

William, Prince

Winston, Harry

Wolfowitz, Paul

women: in Afghanistan; Bin Laden, diversity of; inheritance of; lack of information about; modesty and honor around; progressive, Queen Iffat as archetype of; Riyadh Spring and; Salem’s giving of money to; Saud’s views on; veils and; in Wadi Doan

Woodgate West

World Assembly of Muslim Youth

World Bank

World Trade Center; first attack on; second attack on

World War I

World War II

World Wide Web

Wyatt, Oscar

Y

Yaf ’ei, Muhamad Salem Al-

Yemen, Yemenis; Abdullah’s return to; Bin Laden family origins in; Egyptian intervention in; jihad in; money runs and; Osama in; Osama’s bride from; Osama’s calls to; revolution and civil war in; Saudi relations with; terrorism and

York International Corporation

“Young People of Saudi Arabia, The” (British ambassador’s report)

Yousef, Ramzi

Yusufzai, Rahimullah

Z

Zahed, Fouad

Zaidan, Ahmad

zakat fund

Zawahiri, Ayman Al-

Zionism

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Steve Coll is most recently the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Ghost Wars. He is the president of the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute headquartered in Washington, D.C., and a staff writer for the New Yorker. Previously he worked for twenty years at the Washington Post, where he received a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism in 1990, traveled widely as a foreign correspondent, and served as the Post’s managing editor between 1998 and 2004. He is the author of five other books, including On the Grand Trunk Road and The Taking of Getty Oil.

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Ghost Wars

On the Grand Trunk Road

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The Taking of Getty Oil

The Deal of the Century

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The Bin Ladens: an Arabian family in the American century/Steve Coll.

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1. Bin Laden family. 2. Saudi Arabia—History—20th century. I. Title.

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