Bin Laden widows and children prepare for new life in Saudi Arabia

Bin Laden himself was born in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, but to a Yemeni
construction billionaire. Yemeni officials regarded his wife Amal Ahmed
al-Sadah to be a Saudi because bin Laden was a Saudi national, although
Riyadh had revoked his nationality for aiming to topple the royal family.

A Yemen government official rejected claims that his Yemeni wife was being
forced to live in exile in Saudi Arabia. “Its not an exile: her husband
was a Saudi. Pakistan was exile,” he said. Her family have asked she be
allowed the choice to return to Yemen at some point but it is understood she
is likely to remain in Saudi Arabia.

The Pakistani interior ministry confirmed their deportation to Jeddah and
described their destination, Saudi Arabia, as their “country of choice”.

They travelled to the airport in a minibus under heavy police escort and were
smuggled into Islamabad’s Benazir Bhutto International Airport through a
secret entrance. Saudi diplomats took custody of the family at the airport
and escorted them to the awaiting aircraft.

They have not been charged with any offence by the Saudi authorities, but will
live under tight security, the family’s Pakistani lawyer, Aamir Khalil said.

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