Robert Blake Case: 15 Years Later, His Private Eye Speaks Out. It was a whodunit made for Hollywood â the con-artist wife of TV actor Robert Blake found shot to death in a parked car a block away from the Los Angeles restaurant where the unhappy couple had just eaten dinner.
bin laden, osama in Culture Expand. bin Laden, Osama [(lah-duhn)] An Islamic terrorist and the head of the Al Qaeda network of terrorists. Born into a wealthy family in Saudi Arabia, bin Laden went to Afghanistan to train Islamic warriors known as mujahideen after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979. After the Soviets pulled out in 1989, he returned to Saudi Arabia.
Osama bin Laden, also spelled Usama bin Ladin. His full name was Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden. (bin means son in Arabic, so his name also tells his genealogy. Osama was the son of Muhammad, who was the son of Awad, and so forth). Family Background: Bin Laden was born in 1957 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capitol. He was the 17th of over 50 children born to his Yemeni father, Muhammad, a self-created billionaire whose fortune came from building contracting. He died in a helicopter accident when Osama was 11 years old.