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[Flying Panda]

In all seriousness people. Below is a picture of World Champion Alan Jones's Williams from 1979 (?), sponserd by Osama Bin Laden's father's (Mohammad Bin Laden) Construction company.


http://users.senet.c.../aj & osama.jpg
(If you can't see it, it's just left of the 27)

At the end of the USGP broadcast Darryl Eastlake had a go at AJ about it and he replied that he got a phone call from a newspaper asking if he knew he had been sponsored by bin larden's construction co. he said was not sure (He didn't have anything to do with the sponsers), and did some reasearch and there it was.
AJ said "If I knew at the time what I know now I would have run the little bugger over"

[Mammoth]

wasn´t this topic already done??

the conclusion I believe it was that it was osama´s father who btw has about 24 children... he also severed any links with osama when he began his extremist views...

[armchair expert]

Maybe, but wasn't the FW-07 a sensational looking racing car?

[Earthling]

Originally posted by armchair expert
Maybe, but wasn't the FW-07 a sensational looking racing car?

Very much....and i wish F1 cars stay looking that way forever, with no technology. Just simply fast cars made from an Engine and a body with the minor stuff needed.

[The Swerve]

This is old news - the Bin Laden family were the sponsor, as far as understand. Osama is apparently an outcast from that family anyway isn't he?

[coyoteBR]

Yes, he is. His family and his family business has nothing to do with him.

[No27]

Originally posted by coyoteBR
Yes, he is. His family and his family business has nothing to do with him.

Besides, the sponsorship was twenty years ago. So what would be the point if it was Osama himself? Should we blame Williams?

[tifoso]

Originally posted by Mammoth
wasn´t this topic already done??

the conclusion I believe it was that it was osama´s father who btw has about 24 children... he also severed any links with osama when he began his extremist views...

Osama's father died in the late 60s, I think and had about 50 children. It seems that the father cut off all ties with him, but many are speculating the his mother still keeps in contact. Many relatives on her side of the family were photographed at the wedding when bin Laden married the head of the Taliban's young daughter.

[Noctua]

Originally posted by tifoso

Osama's father died in the late 60s, I think and had about 50 children. It seems that the father cut off all ties with him, but many are speculating the his mother still keeps in contact. Many relatives on her side of the family were photographed at the wedding when bin Laden married the head of the Taliban's young daughter.

That's all besides the point in my view.
Both threads seem to suggest that Williams was sponsored by a
families construction firm that are also involved in terrorist activities.
A son of that family only started spreading his extreme ideas and
terrorist activities more than a decade later.

So why wouldn't Williams have their cars sponsored by the Laden family
at that time, it could have been any team in that period.

[jimm]

Bin Laden's father must have died in his late 60's not in the late 60's. Bin Laden is in his early 40's meaning that he would have been in his early teens at most. He didn't start his career as the world's most wanted asshole until the 80's.

[Jason]

I heard everyone in bin Laden's family has disowned him, but his step-mother. Sounds like his family had the resources to buy an F1 team, if they want to.

[tifoso]

Originally posted by Noctua
That's all besides the point in my view.

I know it doesn't have anything to do with the bin Laden's involvement in F1 or other forms of auto racing. I just felt that the information posted about bin Laden earlier in the thread wasn't accurate.

Here's a brief profile I found on bin Laden:

Bin Laden was born in Saudi Arabia around 1957 to a family of Yemeni origins. His father, Mohammed bin Laden, founded a construction company, and with royal patronage, became a billionaire. The company's connections won it such important commissions as rebuilding mosques in the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.

Mohammed bin Laden took many wives and fathered about 50 children. Osama was the 17th son, born to a later wife. In a society where status within a family is highly important, bin Laden would therefore have been of relatively low rank within the huge family.

Bin Laden studied management and economics at King Abdul Aziz University in Jedda, Saudi Arabia, coming under the influence of religious teachers who introduced him to the wider world of Islamic politics.

Bin Laden has been disowned by most of his family, including a brother, Sheik Bakr Mohammed bin Laden, who has established scholarship funds at Harvard Law School, and the Harvard School of Design. In 1991 his Saudi citizenship was revoked.

After family patriarch, Sheik Mohammed bin Laden died in 1968, each child inherited an estimated $500 million.

I was wrong about the marriage bit, however. Apparently, a daughter of Osama bin Laden married the head of the Taliban.

[pa]

This must be the first case of a son's sins being visited upon a dead father.