Documentary on life with bin Laden
Friday, March 5, 2004 Posted: 6:42 PM EST (2342 GMT)
Osama bin Laden
TORONTO (AP) -- Osama bin Laden likes poetry and volleyball, had squabbles with his children, and banned any American conveniences like ice and soft drinks, according to a Canadian TV documentary on a family that had close ties to the al Qaeda leader until 2001.
The program showed a softer side of the world's No. 1 fugitive, but it also reflected his fundamentalist Islamic attitudes toward women and his terrorist war against the United States.
The show's main interview subject, Abdurahman Khadr, said he was captured in Afghanistan and worked for a time with the CIA, FBI and the U.S. military. Khadr said his father, Ahmed Said, dragged the whole family into the world of al Qaeda by moving them into bin Laden's compound.
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