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 was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 1957 or 1958. He was the 17th of 52 children born to Mohammed bin Laden, a Yemeni immigrant who owned the largest construction company in the Saudi kingdom. Young Osama had a privileged, cosseted upbringing.