ummah (community of believers)
Unger, Craig
United Arab Emirates
United Medical Group
United Nations
United Press International (UPI)
United States; automobiles in; Bin Laden family investments in; education in; Faisal’s visit to; Mohamed’s business with; Nicaraguan Contras and; oil and; Osama in; Osama’s war against; Salem’s business operations in; Saudi corporate business of; Saud’s visits to; stock market in; Sudan’s relations with; telephone industry of; see also specific countries
University of San Francisco
University of Southern California (USC)
Upper Metn Secondary School
Urowsky, Richard J.
usury
van der Meulen, Daniel
Versailles Conference
Victoria College
videotaping
Vinnell Corporation
Vinson and Elkins
Virginia
Vogel, Frank E.
Wadi Doan
Wadi Rakiyah
Wahhab, Mohamed Abdul
Wahhabis; Fahd and; Pakistan proselytizing of; rise of; Saud’s deviation from; women and
Walters, Barbara
waqfs (Islamic trusts)
Washington, D.C.; Afghan embassy in; Fahd summit in; Iridium in; 9/11 and; Saudi embassy in; see also White House
water
Watson, Dale
wazirs (ministers)
Weaver, Sigourney
Wechsler, William
Welch, Jack
“Western Banking Practices and Shari’a Law in Saudi Arabia” (Abdullah Bin Laden)
Westerns
White, Bill
White, Weld & Company
White House; counterterrorism office at; Iridium executives at
William, Prince
Winston, Harry
Wolfowitz, Paul
women: in Afghanistan; Bin Laden, diversity of; inheritance of; lack of information about; modesty and honor around; progressive, Queen Iffat as archetype of; Riyadh Spring and; Salem’s giving of money to; Saud’s views on; veils and; in Wadi Doan
Woodgate West
World Assembly of Muslim Youth
World Bank
World Trade Center; first attack on; second attack on
World War I
World War II
World Wide Web
Wyatt, Oscar
Yaf ’ei, Muhamad Salem Al-
Yemen, Yemenis; Abdullah’s return to; Bin Laden family origins in; Egyptian intervention in; jihad in; money runs and; Osama in; Osama’s bride from; Osama’s calls to; revolution and civil war in; Saudi relations with; terrorism and
York International Corporation
“Young People of Saudi Arabia, The” (British ambassador’s report)
Yousef, Ramzi
Yusufzai, Rahimullah
Zahed, Fouad
Zaidan, Ahmad
zakat fund
Zawahiri, Ayman Al-
Zionism
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Steve Coll is most recently the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Ghost Wars. He is the president of the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute headquartered in Washington, D.C., and a staff writer for the New Yorker. Previously he worked for twenty years at the Washington Post, where he received a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism in 1990, traveled widely as a foreign correspondent, and served as the Post’s managing editor between 1998 and 2004. He is the author of five other books, including On the Grand Trunk Road and The Taking of Getty Oil.
ALSO BY STEVE COLL
Ghost Wars
On the Grand Trunk Road
Eagle on the Street (with David A. Vise)
The Taking of Getty Oil
The Deal of the Century
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The Bin Ladens: an Arabian family in the American century/Steve Coll.
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1. Bin Laden family. 2. Saudi Arabia—History—20th century. I. Title.
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