Saturday 7 May 2011

"I am Saudi ... Osama bin Laden is my father!"

Via FLC

Via War in Context:

"Osama bin Laden's daughter cradled the head of her wounded mother in the room where the al-Qaida leader had just been killed.
"I am Saudi," she told Pakistani security officials shortly after US special forces had flown away with the terrorist's bloodied body. "Osama bin Laden is my father."
The 12-year-old had herself been injured by a piece of flying debris in her foot or ankle during the night-time raid on Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, northern Pakistan, but she was comforting her father's fifth wife, Amal Ahmed al-Sadah, 29, who was shot in the calf by commandos as they closed in on Bin Laden.
The woman lay quietly, her head in the girl's lap, though she seemed conscious, the officials told the Guardian. Across the room stood another woman, hands tied behind her back and mouth taped, aged around 30 and initially identified as a Yemeni doctor for Bin Laden's wife and children...."
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