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== Legacy == Following Muhammad bin Ladin's death, his eldest sons, principally [[Salem bin Laden]], renamed the organization, "Binladen Brothers for Contracting and Industry" and continued to expand their late father's company until it employed more than 40,000 people. Salem bin Laden died in the United States in 1988 when his ultralight aircraft collided with power lines.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|title = Rags to riches story of the bin Laden family is woven with tragedy|url = https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/01/rags-to-riches-story-of-the-bin-laden-family-is-woven-with-tragedy|website = the Guardian|access-date = 2015-10-06|first = Jason|last = Burke| date=August 2015 }}</ref> Many members of the bin Ladin family have moved away from Saudi Arabia and settled in Europe and the US.<ref name=":0" /> In May 1990, the company was renamed the Saudi Binladin Group under the leadership of [[Bakr bin Laden]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden|url = http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=mohammed_bin_awad_bin_laden_1|website = www.historycommons.org|access-date = 2015-10-06|archive-date = 2017-04-15|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170415060651/http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=mohammed_bin_awad_bin_laden_1|url-status = dead}}</ref> The [[Saudi Binladin Group]] as it is now known, is involved in construction, engineering, manufacturing, and telecommunications. Construction projects include airports, housing complexes, tunnels, and bridges. The group is also involved in city planning and real estate development. The Saudi Binladin Group is Egypt's largest private foreign company and negotiated with the Lebanese government to rebuild part of central Beirut under a US $50 million contract. In 2009, the bin Ladin family was listed as the 5th wealthiest Saudi family by [[Forbes|Forbes magazine]], with a reported net worth of $7 billion.<ref>{{Cite web|title = The Five Richest Saudis|url = https://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2009/08/31/the-five-richest-saudis/|website = WSJ Blogs - The Wealth Report|date = 2009-08-31|access-date = 2015-10-06}}</ref> Muhammad bin Ladin is portrayed by [[Tim Seyfi]] in the 2019 [[OCS (television)|OCS]]/[[Netflix]] miniseries ''[[The Spy (TV miniseries)|The Spy]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sacha Baron Cohen triumphs as Eli Cohen in Netflix's The Spy |url=https://www.jpost.com/international/sacha-baron-cohen-triumphs-as-eli-cohen-in-netflixs-the-spy-600322 |website=[[Jerusalem Post]] |access-date=12 September 2023 |date=2 September 2019|author-first1=Hannah|author-last1=Brown}}</ref>
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