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| 'Mother-in-law dies' on news of bin Laden killing |
| 2011-05-09 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Al Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden's ... who is currently rooming with Hitler and Himmler... first mother-in-law died of a stroke after hearing the news that US forces killed him in Pakistain, a London-based Arabic newspaper reported on Sunday. Nabih al Ghanem, the mother of bin Laden's first wife, Najwa, was taken to a hospital in Latakia in northern Syria where she died after suffering the stroke, the Asharq al Awsat daily said. It said the woman in her 70s "could not bear the bad news and lost consciousness" after US President Barack B.O.Obama announced bin Laden's killing by US commandos during a raid in Pakistain on May 2. Bin Laden had married Najwa, his Syrian-born cousin, when he was 17, and they had 11 children, the paper said adding she had left Afghanistan a few days before the September 11, 2011 terror attacks on the United States and now lives in Syria. In January last year, Asharq al Awsat reported that a son of the al Qaeda leader had been allowed to leave Iran to look for his mother in Syria. Part of the bin Laden family, whose whereabouts have been unclear since the 9/11 attacks, was in Iran, the daily said, adding that bin Laden had taken a second wife in 1983 and they had three children before divorcing. Numerous people had lived alongside bin Laden in his dwelling in Abbottabad, Pakistain. The compound housed three of his wives and a dozen of their children, according to Pak authorities. At least five people were killed during the US assault: bin Laden, whose body was taken by the Americans, one of his sons, his two bodyguards -- known as the "Kuwaitis" -- and a woman, according to Pak security sources. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Mazeltov! |
| Posted by: mojo 2011-05-09 15:49 |
| #1 One can only hope that in the end she was glad her daughter and eleven grandchildren hadn't joined that man in his squalid life in hiding from the Americans. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-05-09 04:47 |