Bakr bin Laden
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Bakr bin Laden, brother of Osama bin Laden, is the chairman of the Jeddah-based Saudi Binladin Group and the largest majority shareholder in the Group, with a 23.58% holding.[1]
A major power broker in the Saudi business capital, Bakr tends to keep a low profile: "We have a mayor and all kinds of political heavyweights. But the true ruler of Jeddah is Bakr bin Laden," said a source for an article in the German magazine Der Spiegel. "Bakr is never seen in public, and when he does occasionally go to the InterContinental for dinner -- sometimes with Osama's son Abdullah[2]-- he has the entire restaurant closed."[3]
Bakr bin Laden attended college at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, United States in 1979.
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- ^ [1], Zawya.com, Saudi Binladin Group profile.
- ^ The name of son referred to, Abdallah Osama bin Laden, is variously spelled as Abdullah
- ^ Georg Mascolo and Erich Follath (2005-06-06). "Osama's Road to Riches and Terror". http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,359690,00.html.
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