"There is very little information on {Osama} bin Laden's early life"

1: We know that following his parents divorce Osama bin Laden was not brought up in the bin Laden family home.

2: We know that he was not raised by his natural father, but by his Step-father.

3: We know he was not schooled by the bin Ladens, but by his Step-father.

4: We know which of Osama bin Laden's brothers did work in the family business and those that did not. There is no mention of Osama bin Laden ever having any connection to Saudi BinLadin Group.

5: We know that on the death of his natural father Osama bin Laden received somewhere between $25 and $30 million as his part of his natural father's estate. Sounds a great deal but when you consider that his natural father was worth in excess of $5 billion it puts the size of Osama's inheritance into perspective.

6: We know that in 1992 he was banished from Saudi Arabia and that in 1994 he was stripped of his Saudi citizenship, disowned by the bin Laden family and had all his assets frozen.

From 1979 when he left University and moved to Pakistan there is a great deal of information on Osama bin Laden's location and activities. Between 1979 and 2011 there is no mention of Osama bin Laden ever having any connection to Saudi Bin Ladin Group.

"One of my regular customers in London owned McAlpine's - never seen a shovel in his life and certainly never been on a building site and he employed representatives to attend company meetings but he worked for a building company - or so he claimed.

Your regular customer had every right to claim that he worked for a building company - he owned it and he employed people to act on his behalf, unless he ran the company through nominee directors, your customer would still have duties and responsibilities under Company Law. If your "customer" is being put forward as a comparison to Osama bin Laden's situation then he makes a very poor one, unless of course you are trying to tell us that Osama bin Laden owned SBG? Which of course is complete and utter nonsense.

Osama bin Laden was never a businessman.
Osama bin Laden was never a statesman.
Osama bin Laden was never the Leader of any Nation.