Deep inland, 80 kilometers beyond the Doan Gorge in the Hadramaut region, lies the picturesque village of Ribat Baashen. The houses cling to a shadowy cliff, and fields of corn and palm groves line the valley floor.
It was here in the "high mountains and deserts" of Yemen, that land of his ancestors, that Osama bin Laden once wanted to settle and breathe the "fresh air." In the 1920s his father Mohammed left the village, in the 1950s his uncle Abdullah was the first to install running water. Not much has happened there since. Recently the first ever asphalt road was laid and a plaque with the name of the village was erected.
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