Report: Bin Laden Told His Children to Avoid Terrorism & ‘Live in Peace’ in the West
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Osama bin Laden wanted his children to live peacefully in the West instead of embrace terrorism like their father, the dead Al Qaida leader’s brother-in-law said in an interview published Sunday.
Zakaria al-Sadah, the brother of bin Laden’s Yemeni fifth wife Amal, told Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper that bin Laden believed his children “should not follow him down the road to jihad,” AFP reported.
“He told his own children and grandchildren, ‘Go to Europe and America and get a good education,’” al-Sadah told the Sunday Times. He said bin Laden told them: “You have to study, live in peace and don’t do what I am doing or what I have done.”
According to Business Insider, al-Sadah said bin Laden regretted the impact the Sept. 11 terror attacks had on his family, and that he wanted his children to follow in his siblings’ footsteps — some of whom attended Harvard Law School, the University of Southern California and Tufts University.
Al-Sadah said he saw his sister for the first time in November since she was shot in the knee during the Navy SEAL raid that killed bin Laden. He said the three wives and nine children who were in the Pakistan compound at the time have been held for months in a three-room apartment in Islamabad, under heavy guard by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency.
Fox News reported al-Sadah said the women were on a hunger strike to protest their captivity, while the children — some of whom were bin Laden’s children, and others his grandchildren — were still traumatized after witnessing the raid.
“These children have seen their father killed and they need a caring environment, not a prison — whatever you think of their father and what he has done,” he said.
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Comments (150)
TheObamanation
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:28pmCan you Imagine Bin Laden singing Kenny Rogers Coward of the County to his family ?
Promise me, son, not to do the things I’ve done.
Walk away from trouble if you can.
It won‘t mean you’re weak if you turn the other cheek.
I hope you’re old enough to understand:
Son, you don’t have to fight to be a man … what a crock of shiite …
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:12pmWow, day late and dollaer short don’t you think? Whatever, best way to keep the kids and grandkidds from doing same is to give them a true education and some dignity or they will become full of hate and revenge. It is worth a try, we should give Pakistan no choice but to do the right thing, or this family will be used for the other side’s evil. I know some will think just get rid of them, but doing the right thing is hard. They are kids, and we have to answer to a Higher authority.
Report Post »paleoman
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:51pmB.S. you know its a lie. Just the opposite of what they are taught. Surhansurhan are you taking names of EVIL infidels well spell my name right & I know what 7.62×39 =
Report Post »SurhanSurhan
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:21pm@ PALEOMAN- You’re a brave man, you can’t handle me on an intellectual level, so bring out the gun. As far as I‘m concerned you’re just a molecule in the universe.
Report Post »BlackCrow
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:42pmSpoken by someone who takes the name of a Palestinian assassin for a screen name. There is another bridge that is missing it’s troll.
Report Post »SurhanSurhan
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 5:12pm@ BLACKCROW- Do you guys all read the same play book. Please, be more original. Do you think you’re the first to make that comment?
Report Post »Marengo Ohio Patriot
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:45pm@ JEFFERSON
Report Post »you should be in bed, asleep instead of listening to J.N.’s coast to coast radio program! LOL
bob44044
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:35pmWhat we have in this country right now is because of the people who vote. They have been stupid. And they never learn from their mistakes.
Report Post »DirtyDeeds
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 5:59pmFor that very reason our country was created as a republic and as seen in the progressive era we see more of a direct democracy. I reference this years State of the Union address, where Pres. Obama declared that he wanted Congress to streamline the bureaucracy under the Executive Branch.
Report Post »ThePostman
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:23pmMaybe one of his kids can go to Harvard and become President someday. Can’t be any worse than what we have now.
Report Post »Chromo200
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 7:48pmExcedllent
Report Post »RejectFalseIcons
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 12:48pmMaybe one already did? How Oedipal.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:08pmWhether he did or didn’t is irrelevant. This whole “Do as I say not as I do” thing never works. Parents must lead by example and Bin Laden doesn’t do that.
Report Post »Jefferson
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:29pmYes children.
Report Post »Don’t go into business with the Bush family, like my family did with the Carlyle Group.
Don’t go into business with GWB in his Arbusto Energy Company, like my brother Salem did.
Don’t become a CIA asset and do the dirty work of the US Govt. fighting the Russians by proxy in Afghanistan.
Don’t go travelling through the mountains of Pakistan with a kidney dialysis machine on your donkey, because certain people may realize you were are already dead from Marfan’s syndrome , and have been for 9+ years.
Don’t do it kids. It’s a nasty business.
Razorhunters
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 6:45pmamazing how portable those dialysis’s machine are…
Report Post »therealconservative
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 8:16pm@Jefferson
Marfan’s syndrome? For the last 9 yrs? Sorry, but Marfan’s syndrome is a genetic disease that you have from birth. I’ve had 2 cousins die from Marfan’s, you can look at OBL a tell he didn’t have it.
Report Post »Razorhunters
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 11:38pmBin Laden Received Dialysis Treatment On 9/10/01; Suffers Numerous Ailments
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=C8ftDuPAGJw
Razorhunters
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 11:42pmOsama Bin Laden was killed years ago [Benazir Bhutto]
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RxMBkWY_uZY
Silversmith
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:49pmYeah. SURE he did!
Silversmith
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:47pmI will take this at face value and hope that the white house and company take his advice. The way this can be done is to rescind everything that has been done the past three years and then RESIGN.
Report Post »Kimber_45
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:41pmPeople keep forgetting you can‘t take ’them’ at their word. IT’S OK TO LIE TO INFIDELS!
This is another ploy to lull the infidels to sleep. WAKE UP!
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:30pmThe Talmud teaches the same.
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 6:22pmAh! The Moral Equivalency Jerk! You must be a closet liberal.
Talmud deploys it as a defensive strategy (Babylonian exile context) as opposed to Islam’s offensive strategy.
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:35pmHe sounds like a neo-con
Report Post »tangonine
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:45pmyeah because living in peace and not being a terrorist is exactly what we neo-conservatives want. no sarcasm. I’m not exactly sure what your point is, but, hippie, you did do a good job of painting yourself as a dumba## in 6 words or less.
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:59pmHe started a war using other folks children…and he wanted it fought with other folks children…He did fight himself,unlike most NEO-CONS…Ron Paul is the only veteran running,and the only one who wants to end perpetual wars…The rest of the Pack…are filthy FN NEO-CONS
Report Post »Shane74
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:25pmTangonine, why are you defending “neocons”? You know they are NOT conservatives, right?
God, we may as well let Samuel Jackson do all the voting in this country, if this is the state we’re in. Also, nice Alinski tactics there, labeling somebody as a hippy!
The left, and the ultra-left “neocons” (who pretend they aren’t), have just got to be proud!
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 6:34pmNeo-conservative meant a former liberal that was mugged by reality. Then liberals started morphing it (their favorite pass time to reframe things) and it was bough far and wide; nowadays it is simply another way to say a Jew.
The label is meaningless. It has nearly the same load (of crap) like when someone calls you a racist.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:30pmTell Scar and his hyenas to get lost before Mufasa has to come down off his mountain.
Report Post »Bronx
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:29pmSee Mr. Obama you killed a man that wanted to live in peace and harmony with the world. I feel like there is a coke commercial somewhere in here.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:39pmLoL
Yes….., and speaking of peace …and, “To one who is given much much is expected” ,,,
>a “green” burial service.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:29pmI believe this as much as I believe that obama, reid, pelosi, et al are working to save our freedoms.
Report Post »TexBork
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:27pmI’m not sure why the words of this man are to be considered “trustworthy” in any capacity.
Report Post »TheObamanation
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:25pmThis message is for the libbytards … ’cause I ain‘t buyin’ it
Report Post »tangonine
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:46pmactually, it makes sense. He wasn’t stupid. Eventually he realized he was wrong. I don’t see the interference in the pattern here.
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 6:41pmtangonine, I have a nice bridge. It is virtual, but worth well all of your savings, dolt.
He meant it in a sense that the attack was a mistake from a long term perspective. It awakened a lot of people that were completely unaware about Islam’s goals. He saw that the stealth jihad had far more success. That was the gist of his admonishment.
Report Post »TexBork
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 8:20pm@tangonine But, it’s too late. He already brought unrest here as he did back there. He should have instead then become an avid person for peace over death, but he never was. Even the videos he released always promised death and violence and never ever promised peace in any capacity. I don’t buy for a moment that Osama became a “Western Advocate”. That would be like Ahmadinejad all of a sudden realizing that he’s a world leader advocate of death and terror and yet telling his children to flee the hate of radical Islam and move to Israel.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:23pmMy “Spidy Senses” are going off all over the place.
Report Post »JQCitizen
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:22pmDoesn’t he remind you of the Libs in this nation:
- We’re to be “stuck” on Obamacare, while they remain forever in the Politically connected class and get something better
Report Post »- We’re supposed to give up our cars, while they ride in limos and private jets.
- We’re supposed to cut down on meat, while Moochel downs 8 oz. slabs of ribs.
- and on, and on, and on, and on….
And Osama’s followers are to have their children “Walk through the Fire”, for Jihad, while his enjoy comfort in the Hated West.
momprayn
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:21pmHe is lying – that is not following Mohammed‘s teachings and they wouldn’t be a true Muslim….and we know they are. They are taught to lie whenever it will promote their agenda/fool their enemies (all infidels – Christians and Jews, non-Muslims). This includes “moderates” of which there really aren’t — ALL Muslims believe in taking over the world for Allah one way or another – they just differ about how and when. But when they declare jihad they all must unite, whether they want to or not. And they can’t leave Islam without risk of death, etc.
Just read a great book by an ex-Muslim PLO terrorist who was converted to Christianity and is trying to educate and warn us very ignorant, naive, stupid Americans about Islam. I recommend it highly:
“Gods War on Terror” by Walid Shoebat
Report Post »Ishmot2
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:59pmMaybe Walid Shoebat is planning something big and has told a big lie too.
Report Post »SurhanSurhan
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:43pm@ MOMPRAYN- You‘re either stupid or you don’t believe what you just wrote. You just said a Muslim can lie to infidels and can’t leave Islam without being killed, than you say you learned from an ex-Muslim. Where does it say in the Qur’an that Muslims can lie to non-Muslim and it is a virtue in Islam?
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:06pmI-Slam is a cult of Pedophile Men who crush their women’s spirit.
Report Post »SurhanSurhan
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:17pm@ 13TH IMAM- Oh, you mean like: 1 Corinthians 14:34-36: 34 Women should be silent during church. It is not proper for them to speak. They should be submissive, just as the law says. 35 If they have any questions, they should ask their husbands at home, for it is improper for women to speak in church. 36 Or do you think God’s word originated with you Corinthians? Are you the only ones to whom it was given?
1 Corinthians 11:3: 3…the head of woman is man,….
1 Corinthians 11:7: 7 A man should not wear anything on his head when worshiping, for man is made in God’s image and reflects God’s glory. And woman reflects man’s glory.
Deuteronomy 25:11-12: 11 “If two men get into a fight and the wife of one tries to rescue her husband by grabbing the testicles of the other man, 12 you must cut off her hand. Show her no pity.
There‘s nothing in the Qur’an like these verses.
Report Post »hillbillyinny
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 5:38pmHey “SS,” you are really good at quoting the Bible out of reference.
First, Deutironimy is Old Testament, and you quote a written law that was complted by Jesus law of love to be written on the heart, as in “I did not come to distroy the Law, but to complete it,” give new meaning to it.
Second all of the verses you have quoted are individual verses that may or may not be a complete thought (and in all verses in question, they ARE NOT a complete thought!). Read the entire passage rather than limiting yourself to the clerical divisions made by men.
Thanks!
Report Post »SurhanSurhan
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 6:43pm@ HILLBILLYINNY- I love how Christians try to back away from their religious scriptures. Jesus never heard of a New Testament, nor did he tell anyone to write a book called a New Testament. He did prophecy the coming of Muhammad.
Report Post »jaxson
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 12:21amheartitorleaveit asked this fool sirhan for OVER A WEEK to produce any historical and archaeological proof that mecca existed before the fourth century and he failed miserably and finally just ran off, he is a coward and a liar.
Report Post »OLDBIKEFIXER
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:21pmYeah, sure. And pigs will be taking off from runway 14, the Pope just converted to Judaism, and my bank just called to tell me not to bother with the mortgage payments anymore.
This just in — Rosie O’Donnell is supporting Santorum.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:21pmOh I sense the Iron Curtain coming down to lower your guard against Communism. Oh surely Islam isn’t going to consume the West because in Saudi women are gaining the privilege to drive, and Bin Laden wanted his children to live at peace with the West.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:20pmSheeeesh! The next thing you know, all the apologetic and appeasing Ron Paul supporters will start sobbing and parrot Ron Paul about how we shouldn‘t have shot the murderous bastige who started the whole shootin’ match with his radical Islamist BS!!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:16pmYes … live as a “sleeper” until called upon … not buying this as wanting peace.
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 6:44pmXactly.
Report Post »MrMagoo
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:15pm“We love death. The US loves life. That is the difference between us two.Hostility toward America is a religious duty, and we hope to be rewarded for it by God . . . . I am confident that Muslims will be able to end the legend of the so-called superpower that is America.”-Osama Bin Laden
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:09pmBS — In the Koran the Holy War is until the Whole World is Islamic!
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:48pmExactly. Enough said.
Report Post »SurhanSurhan
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:34pm@ LUKERW; TRONINTHEMORNING- Where does the Qur’an say that; share that scripture here with us.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:49pmBook 6 , Chapter 6 Line 6 I-Slam is a cult.
Report Post »SurhanSurhan
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:07pm@ 13TH IMAM- Hey puppet who yanked your chain? So you admit it‘s not in the Qur’an.
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