Ibb, Yemen (CNN) -- When 18-year-old Amal al-Sadah became the fifth wife of 43-year-old Osama bin Laden in 2000, she was "a quiet, polite, easygoing and confident teenager" who came from a big, conservative family in Yemen, a relative told CNN in an exclusive interview. The relative, Ahmed, who knew al-Sadah growing up, said she came from a traditional family in Ibb, Yemen -- established and respectable but certainly with no militant views paralleling the al Qaeda leader's terrorism. The family had no connection to al Qaeda prior to the arranged marriage, Ahmed told CNN during an interview in Ibb on Friday.
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Osama bin Laden was 43 when he married an 18-year-old Yemen woman in 2000
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Amal al-Sadah became his fifth wife, and they had a daughter shortly after 9/11
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She comes from a big, respectable, conservative family in Yemen, a relative tells CNN
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Her family didn't have any ties to al Qaeda prior to the marriage, the relative says
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