Mrs. Bin Laden Speaks
The New York Times has an interesting story today about a police report summarizing interviews of Amal Ahmad Abdul Fateh, one of Osama Bin Laden's wives, who was living with him in the Abbottabad compound. I'm not sure I learned much about Al Qaeda or Pakistani collaboration in hiding Osama Bin Laden, but if you're into the Bin Laden family as soap opera, it's a pretty good read. My favorite passage:
In the report’s account, Ms.
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The New York Times has an interesting story today about a police report summarizing interviews of Amal Ahmad Abdul Fateh, one of Osama Bin Laden's wives, who was living with him in the Abbottabad compound. I'm not sure I learned much about Al Qaeda or Pakistani collaboration in hiding Osama Bin Laden, but if you're into the Bin Laden family as soap opera, it's a pretty good read. My favorite passage:
In the report’s account, Ms. Fateh said she agreed to marry Bin Laden in 2000 because “she had a desire of marrying a mujahid.” She flew into Karachi in July that year and, months later, crossed into Afghanistan to join Bin Laden and two other wives at his base on a farm outside Kandahar.
Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.
