Wife, son bare secrets of Osama

New York, Oct. 12: After years of hiding and social oztracisation, the wife and son of the Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden have come out with a no-holes barred book that reveals quite candidly the harsh life the family led under the gaze and zealous the terror kingpin.
According to the New York Post, Osama bin Laden's first wife, Ms Najwa, and fourth son, Mr Omar, reveal in the forthcoming book titled: Growing Up bin Laden about how on one night in Khartoum, Sudan, bin Laden decided to take his family — four wives and 14 children — on a camping trip. They said he drove into the desert, found an isolated spot, made his oldest sons dig ditches in the sand, long enough to fit each person, and told them to be gallant and not think about foxes or snakes, as he was of the view that there was a war coming between Muslims and the Western infidels, and this was a form of training for greater hardships.
“You must” he says. “Challenging trials are coming to us. Each child, including a few 1- and 2-year-olds, lies in a hollow. There is no water or food. As night falls, a child’s voice whispers in the darkness, ‘I’m cold’.”
He says: “Cover yourself with dirt or grass. You will be warm under what nature provides.”
Ms Najwa, doesn't like that idea, but, “I reminded myself that my husband knew much more about the big world than any of us. We were all pearls to my husband, and he wanted to protect us.”
Ms Najwa, who remains married to him, but now lives apart from him in an undisclosed Middle Eastern location, with the fourth son — of 11 children.
Ms Najwa says that “It’s a world where women are never allowed outside the house, 12-year-old daughters are married off to 30-year-old Al Qaeda fighters, pet dogs are used for target practice and the biggest household fight is over whether Islam allows refrigerators.”
She neither defends nor lashes out at Osama, as she says that terrorism is what he does for a living, and that all she needs to do is worry about keeping his house in order.
Source::DC