Posted on 12/22/2009 11:22:14 PM PST by Schnucki
Osama bin Laden’s closest relatives are living in a secret compound in Iran, members of the family said last night. They include a wife and children who disappeared from his Afghan camp at the time of the 9/11 attacks on the United States.
There has been uncertainty about the family’s whereabouts for the past eight years, with reports that some of the children had been killed in bombings, while others had joined their father in planning terrorist attacks. However, relatives said that they found out last month that the group, including one of Osama’s wives, six of his children and 11 of his grandchildren, had been kept in a high-security compound outside Tehran.
They have been prevented from contacting the outside world while Iran has repeatedly denied that any of the relatives were living in the country.
Members of the bin Laden family are now appealing for the group to be allowed to leave Iran and described them as the “forgotten victims of 9/11”.
Omar Ossama bin Laden, 29, the al-Qaeda leader’s fourth-eldest son, said he had no idea that his brothers and sisters were still alive until they called him in November. They told him how they had fled Afghanistan just before the 9/11 attacks and walked to the Iranian border. They were taken to a walled compound outside Tehran where guards said they were not allowed to leave “for their own safety”. The eldest of the children, Saad, was 20 at the time, Ossman 17, Muhammad 15, Fatma 14, Hamza 12, Iman 9, and Bakr, 7.
There had been speculation that Muhammad was second in command of al-Qaeda and that Saad also instigated and
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I can’t recall anything about the color of their bandanas. I was caught up in the fact that three of the hijackers lived in San Diego, where I lived at the time. Maybe SoCalPol remembers the bandana color. She has a memory for details.
Perhaps the BinLadens are just trying to get them out of Iran before the war begins there in earnest.
Everyone else who is paying attention can see the writing on the wall. Surely the Bin Ladens can too.
Good thinking. You’re likely right.
I’ll offer prayers and burn a pig fat candle in their honor.
Google Search: "red headbands" 911 hijackers Iran
AND another thing, too, something that I only heard reported ONCE, early in the morning, from some television station in the UK was a report that in August 2001, the Saudis had purchased a tremendously HUGE INSURANCE POLICY on their Washington, D.C. embassy.
I never saw anything more about that tidbit after the morning of 911.
Roger that.
Your post will prove to be prophetic.
Iran-Bin Laden Ping
Major Barf Alert!
The story on Drudge is the exact opposite. The family is being held captive and the yougest sister just escaped and is holed up in the embassy. The family doesn’t need to hide anywhere as most live openly around the world.
I’ve been arguing for Iran as UBL’s hiding spot for years...people always scoff for the same reasons.
I don’t know if all the hijackers had bandanas
but the terrorists on flight 93 wore red bandanas on their
heads.
The terrorists who flew the plane into the Pentagon
lived here in San Diego.
Their Imam here was also the Imam for the Ft. Hood killer
who was e mailing him dozens of times over weeks or months before his killed over 30 at Ft. Hood.
Targets for Israel bombing practice?
How ‘secret’ is their location?”
Ask Dan Rather......he was interviewing terrorists for some years and refusing to tell where he found them.
Thanks.
Greta had John Bolton on her show and they talked about this tonight.
Thanks for telling me. I’ll be sure to watch the replay of Greta’s show in 45 minutes.
I loke Bolton....I’ll ping you to another story on Climategate.
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