Pakistan charges Osama Bin Laden's widows

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

Osama Bin Laden's three widows have been charged by Pakistan with illegally entering the country.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the women, reported to be two Saudis and a Yemeni, had been charged but did not say when the hearing took place.

The wives and about 10 children were taken into custody last May when US commandos raided their safe house.

The three women had been living in the compound in Abbottabad that Navy Seals attacked, killing Bin Laden.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17303173

[BigD_95]

1. good

[nanabugg]

2. Good? These are women and children who had no choice. What have we become? nt

[potone]

3. I tend to agree.

Unless there is clear evidence that the women acted of their own free will, which I very much doubt given the attitude toward women of Al Qaeda, this seems unjust.

[dipsydoodle]

5. Did you mean to post here

or reply to the one above ? I hadn't said good.

[Kolesar]

4. Pakistan's military has incentive to kill them so that they don't implicated Bin Laden's protectors

...in the Pakistan military and at that "military academy" nearby. Yes, I'm gloomy.

[Eugene]

6. Reuters: Pakistan Taliban demand release of bin Laden's widows, threaten attacks

Source: Reuters

Pakistan Taliban demand release of bin Laden's widows, threaten attacks

By Saud Mehsud

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan | Fri Mar 9, 2012 8:22am EST

(Reuters) - The Pakistan Taliban will attack government, police and military officials if three of the late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's widows are not released from Pakistani custody, a spokesman for the militant group said on Friday.

Pakistan's government has charged bin Laden's three widows with illegally entering and staying in the country, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Thursday.

"If the family of Osama bin Laden is not released as soon as possible, we will attack the judges, the lawyers and the security officials involved in their trial," Ehsanullah Ehsan of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) told Reuters.

"We will carry out suicide bombings against security forces and the government across the country."

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/09/us-pakistan-militants-binladen-idUSBRE8280L120120309