- Dead terrorist leader’s family to be expelled any time ‘after midnight’ on Wednesday
- Unclear if widow from Yemeni will be
transported on to her own country of origin
By
Ian Garland and Phil Vinter
15:11 EST, 17 April 2012
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04:29 EST, 18 April 2012
Twelve members of Osama Bin Laden’s family will be deported from Pakistan this morning.
Bin Laden’s three widows, their eight children and one grandchild will be sent to Saudia Arabia, after admitting entering Pakistan illegally.
The family’s lawyer Muhammad Aamir told AFP on Tuesday: ‘They will go tonight or tomorrow early in the morning.
After 12 tonight they can be deported any time.’
Leaving Pakistan: Amal Ahmed Abdul Fateh, from Yemeni (pictured), is one of Osama Bin Laden’s three widows who is now due to be deported from the Asian country
Two of the terrorist leader’s former
wives – Khairiah Sabar and Siham Sabar – will be sent to Saudi Arabia.
The third, Amal Ahmed Abdul Fateh, will join them, but may later be moved on to her native Yemen with her five children.
A Pakistani intelligence official confirmed the deportation would take place ‘sometime around midnight’ on Tuesday and said ‘most likely
they would be flown to Saudi Arabia’.
All three widows, along with Bin Laden’s 17
and 21 year old daughters, were placed under house arrest earlier this
month having pleaded guilty to living illegally in Pakistan.
Just a few days ago the Al Arabiya television network released footage from inside the ‘guest house’ in Islamabad, where Bin Laden’s family members have been holed up .
Toddlers and children are seen
playing with teddy bears and cricket bats, while the three widows of Bin
Laden look on or read the Koran.
But the boarded-up windows and a
heavy armed presence outside given an indication that while the place
may serve as a home for the occupants, it is also a prison for Osama’s
relatives.
Family ties: Osama bin Laden’s widows, children and grandchildren were
sentenced for a month and a half under house arrest by a Pakistani court for
illegal residency in the country
The three former wives of Bin Laden have been in Pakistani custody since U.S. Navy SEALs raided the terrorist’s compound in Abbottabad and killed the al Qaeda leader in May 2011.
All the women confessed to impersonation, illegal entry into Pakistan and staying illegally, so a trial was not required. Mr Khalil said his clients would not appeal the ‘lenient” sentence.
Fateh told Pakistani investigators that Bin Laden spent years on the run in Pakistan after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, moving from one safe house to another and fathering four children.
A deposition taken from Fateh gives the clearest picture yet of bin Laden’s life while international forces hunted him. He and his family move from city to city with the help of Pakistanis who arranged ‘everything’ for them. she is reported as saying.
She told police she never applied for a visa during her stay in Pakistan.
Last stand: Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Abottabad where he was killed during a raid by U.S. special forces in May last year
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@ – true, london, 18/4/2012 13:28…I think (and I’m sure many others will agree) that maybe it would be a better idea if we ship you over there to live with them!!!
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@ – true, london, 18/4/2012 13:28…I think (and I’m sure many others will agree) that maybe it would be a better idea if we ship you over there to live with them!!!
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i think we must be obliged to accept these innocent people in our country. they are not criminals they are just victims they have seen their unarmed father being executed in front of them by being shot in the face by a execution squad. we must let them in and i really wish they come here they have been through enough.
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Aslong as its in The Middle East. We’ve got more than enough Bin Ladens living here.
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I don’t care where they go as long as it’s not here for us to keep. We’re full!
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Won’t be long before they are all here claiming benefits and demanding a huge house in London!
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To save further expense pop Qatada and his scrounging brood on the same plane and drop them off in Jordan.
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Excellent news, and I expect they’ll be in London with 2 years.
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Well it seems other countries have no problem deporting “Undesirables”, the British government should learn a lesson from this !!!
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Well I am surprised, I thought they would come over here, get themselves a large house paid for by the tax payer, get all the benefits they can and rant on the streets how unfair and unjust we are towards their fellow leaches.
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