Hamida al-Attas[a] (born A'alia Ghanem;[b]),[5] is the mother of Osama bin Laden, the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda.
Hamida al-Attas came from a Syrian family of citrus farmers, with two brothers and another sister, living in two small coastal villages, Omraneya and Babryon, outside the port of Latakia.
[2]: 74 It has been reported that, in the spring or summer of 2001, Osama bin Laden placed a phone call to his mother and in a "very brief conversation" told her "that he [will] not be able to call again for a long time," adding that "great events are about to take place."
Following the September 11 attacks, Hamida has said "I disapprove of the ambitions the press ascribe to him, but I am satisfied with Osama, and I pray to God that He will guide him along the right path.
She continued "He was a very good child until he met some people who pretty much brainwashed him in his early 20s.