Considering that they mention his family wealth, I can only assume that they mean Osama bin Laden.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden

Yep that is who I meant.

Why do that? If you mean to say something, go ahead and say it.

I knew with reasonable certainty who they were alluding to, so I didn’t read it as them being vague to be honest, more literary.

I had to look it up, and probably wasn’t the only one.

I had to think for a moment myself, and I had to look it up to make sure I got the capitalization right so that’s fair.

No.