Steve Coll
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 2 Sep
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Words, they start to try to deter him by restricting his privileges.
And the first thing they do is restrict his passport.
They don't expel him from the kingdom at this point.
He leaves because the family has a construction project going on in Port Sudan.
He travels there at the end of 1992 and buys a salt farm outside of Port Sudan and starts to set up shop there.
I think, based on what he does, he seems to be thinking that he just needs a little distance.
From the kingdom in order to be able to keep saying what he wants to say.
And so in Sudan, he then sets up a whole new uh operation that that is a sort of fractured mirror of the family's operation in Saudi Arabia.
It has business aspects, he's running companies, he buys farms, he buys horses, he's preaching, and he's also now communicating about these big ideas.
of resistance to the United States and and jihad.
I think the Bin Ladans probably didn't need to check in at immigration in Sudan.
They had more they had more money than the the municipality.
Uh but i it is it's relevant because he can't really go anywhere else, um, having gotten there.
Yes, when you look over the whole of his short and troubled life, uh the Sudan years were probably the happiest that he knew and the most capacious.
Uh he had uh his wives there.
He had now had certainly two, maybe three by the time uh he'd set up in Khartoum.
He moved from Port Sudan to Khartoum.
He had um a big housing compound where his children were growing up, he had horse farms where he could indulge.
His passion for writing.
He had a business office where he was starting to build al-Qaeda into an international revolutionary organization.
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