Omar bin Laden, son of Osama bin Laden, wrote: “That 10-year [Iraq-Iran] war had begun on September 20, 1980…and had come to an exhausted conclusion on August 20, 1988… There was no clear victory for Iran or Iraq, and my father began monitoring the business of Iraq, believing that Saddam Hussein was so dissatisfied with the result of that war that he would not remain silent. My father had never been a supporter of Saddam Hussein due to the dictator’s secular rule over a Muslim land. My father often mocked Saddam Hussein for ‘not being a believer.’ There is no bigger insult for a Muslim. My father also scorned Saddam’s aggressive character, saying, ‘The leader of such a large army will never stop looking for war.’ “
– Najwa bin Laden, Omar bin Laden, and Jean Sasson, Growing Up Bin Laden, Page 79