Bin Laden's mother 'not angry with her son'
Osama bin Laden’s Syrian-born mother said she is not angry with her suspected terrorist son, despite disagreeing with his ambitions and views, according to comments published today.
The Saudi paper Al-Medina said bin Laden’s mother, Alia, whom the article did not identify by name, ‘‘doesn’t agree with the ambitions of her son or his views or what he has been accused of doing, but denies what has been published and broadcast recently in some Arabic media that she is angry with him’’.
The article, which does not quote her directly, said ‘‘she was satisfied with him as any mother would be with her children because he was obedient to her’’.
Alia told the paper, located in the Saudi city of Medina, that she prays ‘‘he will be shown the righteous path and that he will be safe’’.
Bin Laden’s mother, who met Mohammed bin Laden, a Saudi businessman, when he visited Latakia, Syria in the 1950s, said she was angry with the Western media over fabrications published about the bin Laden family and herself.
She urged the Islamic press not to publish information on the family without being sure of its source.
The article does not say where the interview was conducted, but it carries a dateline from the Red Sea port city of Jiddah.
The bin Laden family disowned Osama the prime suspect in the September 11 attacks in the United States in 1994, the same year his Saudi citizenship was revoked.
Family members and the Saudi government have said there have been no communications between bin Laden and his family since the terror attacks on New York and Washington.
