Ah, the 1970s!! They kind of look like the Partidge family

[Bucky]

[Aristus]

1. Yeah.

The guy second from right in the blue trousers is Osama Bin laden.

[Bucky]

2. By the way, the name of this family is....

the bin Ladens. That's young Osama looking geeky in a green sweater and bell-bottom blue jeans over on the right.

[Yavin4]

3. Just shows how regressive religious fundamentalism can be

If mankind does not progress, it perishes.

[Raffi Ella]

4. Are they in a Western Country dressed like that,

or are they in the Middle East? I saw another shot from the 70's in GD with women dressed in casual 70's wear including short-ish skirts walking down the street- I can not imagine! that the Middle East used to be like that.

Seriously, how on earth did the women accept this radical change in their freedom!? I guess they had no choice. still, wow. I can't imagine.

[pintobean]

5. Falun, Sweden, in 1971

It's in the caption under that photo here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1384019/Osama-Bin-Laden-family-Glamour-model-billionaire-patriarch-child-terrorist.html

[Raffi Ella]

6. good read-

thanks, pintobean.

[Boomerproud]

7. Reportedly he wasn't radicalized until the Soviets invaded Afghanistan.

I think that sounds simplistic, but that's the story I've heard.