Tarek bin Laden

Tarek bin Mohammed bin 'Awad bin Laden, [Sometimes spelled Tarik bin Laden, bin Ladin, Binladin, etc.] (b. 1947) is the half-brother of Osama bin Laden, and a noted member of the Saudi-Arabia business community.

TBL was once called "the personification of the dichotomy (conservativism and change) of Saudi Arabia." [cite web
author = Kenneth C. Crowe
title = The Dichotomy of Saudi Arabia
date = May 26, 1976
url = http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF001975/Crowe/Crowe09/Crowe09.html] He once started a textile business with Swedish actor Kjell Bergqvist, intending to make use of some of the large state-owned textile mills in Egypt, and then sell the clothing in the West. "It didn't work out. The factories in Egypt produced for the Soviet Union and they were poorly designed," Bergqvist recalls. [cite web
author = David Bartal
title = suspicious future trading investigated
url = http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:ndixeYiwOHwJ:www.di.se/Index/Nyheter/2001/09/15/31552.htm+%22tarik+bin+laden%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=us&client=firefox-a
date = September 15, 2001
publisher = Dagens IndustriRetrieved from Google Cache, February 20 2007]

More interestingly, in the 1990s, TBL was general supervisor of the International Islamic Relief Organization.

Current affiliations

* Tarik Bin Ladin Trading & Contracting Est, Jeddah.
* Tarik Trading Company, Jeddah.
* Tarik Bin Ladin Tiles & Ceramic Showroom, Jeddah.
* Tarik Bin Ladin Hospital & Clinic, Jeddah.

See also

*Bin Laden family

References