Bin Laden's Sister - In - Law Gives Rare Look

[Khephra]

Bin Laden's Sister - In - Law Gives Rare Look
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: July 10, 2004


Filed at 1:02 p.m. ET

GENEVA (AP) -- The only family member to talk openly about Osama bin Laden describes him as pious and merciless, a man so driven by his beliefs that he once denied a water bottle to his own infant son in the heat of the Saudi desert.

Carmen Binladin, the terrorist leader's sister-in-law, says bin Laden's religious conviction was so admired by his family that she refuses to believe his relatives have stopped supporting him, as they claim.

In a new book and during an extensive interview with The Associated Press, she said a turning point in her life was a bin Laden family gathering in Taef, Saudi Arabia, one sweltering day in the mid-1970s.

Bin Laden's son began crying for water, she said, but the elder bin Laden refused to allow the baby to be given a water bottle, saying the boy should be fed water with a spoon because of Muslim teachings.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Osamas-Sister-in-Law.html

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Too bad none of them were questioned before they left the country

but I guess it's only obstruction of justice to lie about a blow job, not to ferret out material witnesses to the worst outside attack ever on American shores

[thebigidea]

2. Its all Richard Clarke's fault! Michael Moore is a liar! Distract!