By Daily Mail Reporter
Osama bin Laden was a tyrant who trained his own children to be suicide bombers and murdered their pets, his first wife has revealed.
In a new book about her time living with Bin Laden, Najwa Ghanem has told how she gave birth to 11 of his 14 children because bin Laden said that Islam needed many warriors.
And millionaire bin Laden would not allow any modern appliances in his home, even refusing his son medicine to treat his asthma, she reveals.
For more than 30 years she lived in purdah On one occasion Najwa remembers how, in the 1990s, Bin Laden took his family of four wives and 14 children on a camping trip to the desert of Sudan.
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After finding an isolated spot, Bin Laden ordered his sons to dig a ditches in the sand and all of the children, even one and two-year-olds, were forced to climb in.
The ordeal was supposed to be training for a future war between the West and Muslims.
"You must be gallant," he warned.
"Do not think about foxes or snakes. Challenging trials are coming to us."
Bin Laden took three more wives When the children complained that they were cold Bin Laden simply told them to cover themselves with dirt and said that they would be "warm under what nature provides."
Najwa refused to protest at his treatment of her children.
The shocking stories of life with the world's most wanted man have been co-written between Najwa and her fourth son, Omar in their memoirs Growing Up Bin Laden which will be released next month.
Omar applied to enter Britain last year but was refused entry amid speculation that he still remained loyal to his father.
He has previously admitted he went through terror training with the al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan, but left after he rejected his father's beliefs.
He had planned to settle in the Cheshire village of Moulton with wife Jane Felix-Browne, but his visa application was rejected.
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