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...and now for our afternoon “entertainment” news:

http://thepost.com.pk/EditorialNews.aspx?dtlid=149504&catid=10

“Omar’s suggestion”

OP/ED SNIPPET: “In a breakthrough interview with the private TV Channel 5, Omar bin Laden, son of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has urged the world to persuade the US to initiate talks with his father. Significantly, the eldest progeny of Osama claimed that the real conflict between US President George Bush and his father revolved around oil.”
(March 12, 2008)

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=429675&sid=SAS

“Its wrong to link my brother to Bhutto killing: Osama’s son”
Islamabad, March 11: Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden`s contractor son O

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Omar has said it was wrong to blame his Afghanistan-based younger brother Hamza for former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto`s assassination as he was “too young” to have done such a thing.

In her last book “Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and The West”, Bhutto wrote that she had received information last year that Hamza was the leader of one of the four suicide squads sent to target her.

But 26-year-old Omar, who was recently in news for marrying a 51-year-old British grandmother, said it was “completely wrong” to put the blame for Bhutto`s murder on his younger brother Hamza, a member of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. He also said Hamza was “too young” to kill Bhutto.

In an interview with Pakistan`s channel five in Cairo, Omar, a contractor, said the suicide bombings in the country were tragic. He said he was ready to interact with the Pakistani leadership to bring peace and stability to the country.

Omar, who has spent time in Pakistan, said he had been told that former premier Nawaz Sharif was a friend of his father. If circumstances permitted, Omar said, he would meet Sharif.

He also said he had no information about al-Qaeda`s presence in Pakistan`s tribal areas. The Pakistani government, he felt, should work towards a solution to the problems in the tribal areas.”