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Salem bin Mohammed bin 'Awad bin Laden (Arabic: سالم م. بن لادن) (1946–May 29, 1988) was a Saudi Arabian investor.
One of the eldest of the bin Laden brothers (a half-brother and cousin of Osama bin Laden), he acted as the patriarch of the bin Laden family after the 1967 death of his father Mohammed bin Laden. Salem managed the family's extensive investment portfolio (thought to be valued at around $16 billion).
He purchased a house in Orlando, Florida and often used it for vacation stays.[1]
Salem bin Laden died when he accidentally drifted into high voltage electrical power lines adjacent to the Kitty Hawk Field of Dreams Ultra-Lite Flying Field at the edge of Schertz, a northeastern San Antonio suburb. The Sprint ultra-light aircraft he was flying fell 115 feet to the ground after the wire strike. Salem, who was not wearing a safety helmet at the time, died of head injuries from the fall.[2] The National Transportation Safety Board did not conduct an accident investigation since the equipment was an ultra-light aircraft, which was not covered under their mandate. The Schertz Police, who did attend to the accident site, stated in its report that Salem died in a freak accident.
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References
- ^ Bergen, Peter, "Holy War, Inc.", 2001
- ^ Bud Kennedy (27 September, 2001), The Strange Death Of bin Laden's Brother In Texas, rense.com, from Ft Worth Star-Telegram, http://www.rense.com/general14/brother.htm, retrieved 2008-09-21
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