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2. Osama bin Laden's family preparing to live incognito in Saudi Arabia
Fri Apr 27, 2012, 02:47 PM
Apr 2012

Source: The Telegraph

Osama bin Laden's family preparing to live incognito in Saudi Arabia

The 14 members of Osama bin Laden's family who survived the US Navy Seal raid which killed him in May last year were on Friday preparing to live incognito - but apparently in some luxury - in Saudi Arabia after being deported from Pakistan.

By Tom Hussain in Islamabad and Adam Baron in Sanaa

7:21PM BST 27 Apr 2012

They included three of his widowed wives, ten children and one grandchild. One of his wives, Amal Ahmed al-Sadah, was deported to Saudi Arabia despite being a Yemeni, at the insistence of Yemen officials and members of her family who feared she might become a focal point for bin Laden's followers or alternatively targeted by al-Qaeda militants.

In Saudi Arabia, the family members are expected to reside with bin Laden's extended family, led by Osama's half-brother, Bakr bin Mohammed Binladin, the chairman of Saudi Binladin. The kingdom's biggest construction company, it is the foundation of the family's fortune.

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Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/al-qaeda/9232673/Osama-bin-Ladens-family-preparing-to-live-incognito-in-Saudi-Arabia.html

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