Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Bin Laden's Will Says His Children Must Not Join Al-Qaida

THE GUARDIAN: Newspaper prints will that says wives should not remarry and states his regret at neglect of children due to 'devotion to jihad'

Osama Bin Laden's last wish, according to a document purported to be his will, was that his wives not remarry after his death and his children not join al-Qaida.

Al-Anbaa, a Kuwaiti newspaper, reported on Tuesday that the will, marked "private and confidential" was dated 14 December 2001, three months after the 9/11 attacks, when US forces were hunting him in Afghanistan.

The four-page document, written on a computer and signed by "your brother Abu Abdullah Osama Muhammad Bin Laden," predicts that he would die by the "treachery" of those around him. Al-Anbaa does not reveal how or when it obtained the will or whether it was able to authenticate it. Al-Majallah [عربي], a Saudi-owned Arabic magazine, published a similar document in 2002 but it was dismissed as a fraud by a pro-jihadi website. » | Ian Black, Middle East editor | Tuesday, May 03, 2011