Osama bin Laden, who tops the FBI's most wanted list and is the target of a US $ 5 million reward for information by the FBI, was the son of Muhammad Awad bin Laden, a businessman who relied on connections to the Saudi royal family to get the contracts for many lucrative public works projects. From nothing, he built up a US $ 5 billion construction and finance consortium.
奧薩瑪的父親穆罕默德・賓拉登，早年白手起家，靠著與沙國費瑟國王良好關係，參與許多沙國重要的公共工程建設，他不斷地擴充事業版圖，擘建一個財產達五十億美元的工業與金融集團。