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Posted on 03/19/2002 1:23:02 PM PST by vannrox
Osama bin Laden's half brother told CNN on Monday that the world's most sought-after terrorist suspect is not only alive, but does not suffer from a kidney disease that would require dialysis.
Sheikh Ahmad also said his brother Osama was not behind the September 11 suicide attacks on the United States.
"He is my brother. I know him. I lived with him for years. I know how much he fears God," Sheikh Ahmad, who did not want his family name used, said in an interview with CNN.
Sheikh Ahmad and bin Laden have the same mother but different fathers. He said their mother learned through a telephone call three weeks ago that Osama was well, without revealing the source of the call.
The bin Laden family owns a large construction company in Saudi Arabia and have criticized Osama for condemning the Saudi royal family for siding with the United States against Iraq in the Gulf War.
Sheikh Ahmad, 36, owns an advertising production company that is part of the bin Laden empire.
He told CNN that he visited bin Laden a few times in Sudan, and last year in Afghanistan. He said he was "very worried" about his brother after the United States declared him a wanted man, but that his concerns have since eased.
"It's easier now. We got used to it. We know any minute it's possible that we will hear some bad news," he told CNN.
Ahmad deplored the suicide attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania that killed more than 3,000 people.
"Any Muslim wouldn't accept this," he told CNN.
There is "no way," he said, that Osama could have been involved.
Sheikh Ahmad said he and his mother last saw Osama bin Laden at the wedding of one of his sons in Afghanistan in January 2001.
It was there, he added, that Osama told him that reports saying he needed kidney dialysis were false.
"He loved his family and friends, gatherings. He especially adores his mother. First comes God, then his mother," Sheikh Ahmad said.
That is the side of his half brother that Sheikh Ahmad said he wanted to share, in spite of what others may think of him.
"We grew up together in the same house," he said. "Osama is known for being a simple person, very merciful, a very soft heart. It's impossible that anyone would sit with him and not like him or get bored. Frankly, Osama is very close to the heart and very popular."
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No one could write better farcical humor than this brother.
The only thing is, we have evidence and the blood of his victims cries out from the ground.
Could be wrong, but I think it has something to do with condoms.
At least, in high school in my days, that's how you got to be called "Sheik".
[;^)
All of the airplane suicide hijackers were Muslims.... nuf said - Tom
Mrs. Borg:
He used to cut my grass . . .
He was a very nice boy . . .
Joe:
We could jam in Joe's Garage
His mama was screamin'
His dad was mad
We was playin' the same old song
In the afternoon 'n sometimes we would
Play it all night long
It was all we knew, 'n easy too
So we wouldn't get it wrong
All we did was bend the string like . . .
Hey!
Down in Joe's Garage
We didn't have no dope or LSD
But a coupla quartsa beer
Would fix it so the intonation
Would not offend yer ear
And the same old chords goin' over 'n over
Became a symphony
We could play it again 'n again 'n again
Cause it sounded good to me
ONE MORE TIME!
We could jam in Joe's Garage
His mama was screamin',
"TURN IT DOWN!"
We was playin' the same old song
In the afternoon 'n sometimes we would
Play it all night long
It was all we knew, 'n easy too
So we wouldn't get it wrong
Even if you played it on a saxophone
We thought we was pretty good
We talked about keepin' the band together
'N we figured that we should
'Cause about this time we was gettin' the eye
From the girls in the neighborhood
They'd all come over 'n dance around like . . .
So we picked out a stupid name
Had some cards printed up for a coupla bucks
'N we was on our way to fame
Got matching suits
'N Beatle Boots
'N a sign on the back of the car
'N we was ready to work in a GO-GO Bar
ONE TWO THREE FOUR
LET'S SEE IF YOU'VE GOT SOME MORE!
People seemed to like our song
They got up 'n danced 'n made a lotta noise
An' it wasn't 'fore very long
A guy from a company we can't name
Said we oughta take his pen
'N sign on the line for a real good time
But he didn't tell us when
These "good times" would be somethin'
That was really happenin'
So the band broke up
An' it looks like
We will never play again . . .
[Osama bin Laden as "Joe" from Zappa's "Joe's Garage"
before his band broke up and he turned to other things.
"As you can see . . . girls, music, disease, heartbreak . . . they all go together" -- CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER ]
Mark W.
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