Thursday, May 5, 2011

A Look At Osama Bin Laden's Wives



Bin Laden's Wives -- And Daughter Who Would 'Kill Enemies Of Islam' -- CNN

Eleven years ago, a teenage girl was plucked from a quiet town in southern Yemen and taken first to Pakistan and then on to Kandahar in southern Afghanistan.

Her name was Amal al-Sadah, and a year before the 9/11 attacks she became Osama bin Laden's fifth wife. She was 18; he was 43.

By his own account, an al Qaeda figure in Yemen called Sheikh Rashed Mohammed Saeed Ismail arranged the marriage.

Ismail (whose brother spent time as a detainee at Guantanamo Bay) told the Yemen Post in 2008: "I was the matchmaker for his wife Amal al-Sadah, who was one of my students."

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My Comment:
Fortunately .... most children usually do not follow their parents/father's foot steps. Let us hope this tradition continues for Osama Bin Laden's family.

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