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.
According to bin Laden's son Omar bin Laden, the family's hereditary surname is al-Qahtani (Arabic: Ø§ÙÙØ­Ø·Ø§ÙÙââ, Äl-Qaá¸¥á¹­ÄnÄ«), but bin Laden's father, Mohammed bin Laden, never officially registered the name.