Osama at a Quaker school?
Eye has done some further investigating about the claims that Osama Bin Laden attended a Quaker school. As Dom Joly’s family lived near Brummana School in Lebanon, which was a Quaker school until the mid 1980s, if Osama Bin Laden had attended a Quaker school, it would probably have been Brummana not Ramallah. So apologies for the incorrect query last week. Eye had a conversation with the daughter of the headmaster of Brummana from 1968-1975 covering the period when Osama Bin Laden was rumoured to have attended. She tells Eye that Dom Joly was in her sister’s class and that two of Osama Bin Laden’s half-brothers did attend Brummana but as far as her father can remember Osama Bin Laden was not a student there. Eye reminds readers that OBL was not persona non grata in those days.

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A quick google search of "Osama bin Laden" and "childhood" brings up a New Yorker article that examines OBL's childhood and school years at the Al Thager school in Jedda, Saudi Arabia.
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