Osama as a Child

A few interesting facts about Osama bin Laden's childhood according to the Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright:

+ OBL was the founding member of an a cappella singing group as a teen. The group- which seems to have been something of a babershop quartet minus the barbershop- cut some singles they wrote about jihad, but never cracked the Saudi charts.

+ OBL married for the first time in high school, at age 17. His first bride was a cousin who was 14 at the time. They went on to have 11 children together.

+ OBL's second wife had a PHD in child psycology and was seven years older than him- she bore him one child. His third wife also had a doctorate (in Arabic grammar) and bore him four children. His fourth and wife bore him 4 children. Wikipedia claims that he's had 5 wives and has divorced two of them.

+ Friends and relatives claim that OBL became interested in the plight of Palestinians at age 14, and would sometimes break into tears when hearing about events in Palestine on the news.