Posted on 11/04/2008 9:03:03 AM PST by traumer
MADRID — One of Osama bin Laden’s sons, who made headlines last year when he married a British woman, is seeking asylum in Spain, the government said Tuesday.
Omar Osama bin Laden, 27, arrived at Madrid’s Barajas International Airport Monday on a flight from Cairo bound for Casablanca, Morocco, a spokeswoman for the Interior Ministry said.
The spokeswoman said that Mr. bin Laden was traveling on a Saudi passport and was being held at the airport in a special center for asylum seekers. Under Spanish law, the government had 72 hours to decide whether to allow him to stay, she said.
If he is granted provisional asylum, Mr. bin Laden may remain in Spain while his case is reviewed. If his petition is denied, he has one day to file an appeal.
It was not immediately clear on what grounds Mr. bin Laden, a self-declared pacifist who is the son of the Al Qaeda founder and his first wife, Najwa Ghanem, was basing his asylum claim.
Mr. bin Laden, who wears his hair in long braids and shares his infamous father’s arched brows, caused a media storm in Britain last year when he married Jane Felix-Browne, then 51, who took the Muslim name Zaina Mohamed Al-Sabah.
She met Mr. bin Laden during a trip to Egypt in April last year and married him in September, according to news reports at the time.
Mr. bin Laden was refused a visa by the British Embassy in Cairo in April because of what authorities perceived to be his loyalty to his father, which would “cause considerable public concern” in Britain, according to the Associated Press. He was said in those reports to have gone into exile with his father in Sudan and Afghanistan, but returned to Saudi Arabia before the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Take him prisoner and ship him to Gitmo, just in case.
Why Spain... He could seek asylum here in US once ZER0 is President. He could find a house in Hyde park where he will really feel at home with all other friends there..
So AQ kills 190 and injures 2,000 in Spain in March 2004 at some train stations, and they are asked by UBL to take in sonny-boy? Wow!!!! I guess terrorism is really paying off!
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