Bin Laden’s son asked US for father’s death certificate – WikiLeaks

Osama bin-Laden. (Reuters)

Osama bin-Laden. (Reuters)

WikiLeaks has released a letter revealing how one of Osama bin Laden’s sons had asked Washington for a death certificate after US Navy SEALS said they had taken him out.

The document is one of
70,000 collectively dubbed “The Saudi Cables.” The trove, in its
turn, is part of an even bigger collection totaling more than
half a million papers tracing back to the Saudi Foreign Ministry
and other institutions in the country. Those will be released in
the coming weeks, WikiLeaks has said.

According to the cable, the son of Bin Laden, the suspected 9/11
mastermind and Al Qaeda leader, wrote to the US Embassy in Saudi
Arabia requesting the certificate on September 9, 2011.

But the reply from Glen Keiser, US Consul General at the Riyadh
embassy, refused Abdullah bin Laden’s request. Keiser said that
no such document exists, and that this is “consistent with
regular practice for individuals killed in the course of military
operations.”

The staffer then sought to reassure the man telling him there’s
another “mechanism by which to certify the death of Osama bin
Laden.”
It is called the nolle prosequi, which is Latin for
“we shall not prosecute.” This means the case has been
dropped, and therefore acts as proof. The corresponding document
was contained in US court records.

Osama Bin Laden was allegedly killed by a SEAL team during an
operation in Pakistan’s Abbottabad. At least that was the
official line, until a report by prominent journalist Seymour
Hersh investigated for himself and found that the US lied about a
number of details surrounding bin Laden’s death and that the
Obama administration’s account of a “raid” was actually a staged
performance put on for an international audience.

READ MORE: Down the rabbit hole: Bin Laden raid was
staged after extensive Pakistan-US negotiations – report

Friday meanwhile marked the third anniversary of WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange’s self-imposed imprisonment at the
Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he is claiming sanctuary to
avoid capture by the British and a possible extradition to the
US.

Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, hit back at the WikiLeaks news on
Saturday by urging its citizens not to distribute “documents
that might be faked.”
Its Foreign Ministry took to Twitter
with the statement, but did not explicitly deny the authenticity
of what WikiLeaks was saying.

The Gulf kingdom has been known to lash out at criticism and
aggressively deny accusations. It remains to be seen what
WikiLeaks will conjure up in the coming weeks, as it releases its
“Saudi Cables.”

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