Bin Laden family ‘to leave Pakistan early Wednesday’
The 9/11 mastermind’s three widows and their children were detained by the Pakistani authorities after the Saudi was killed in a US Navy SEAL operation in the town of Abbottabad, north of Islamabad, last May.
They are due to complete a short sentence of detention for illegally entering and residing in Pakistan on Tuesday.
“They will go tonight or tomorrow early in the morning. After 12 tonight they can be deported any time,” their lawyer Muhammad Aamir told AFP on Tuesday.
Aamir said the family – who number 12, including bin Laden's three widows, eight children and one grandchild – would probably initially go to Saudi Arabia.
He said bin Laden's youngest and reportedly favourite wife, Amal Abdulfattah, who is Yemeni, may be sent to Yemen afterwards with her five children.
A Pakistani intelligence official confirmed to AFP that the family was expected to be deported “sometime around midnight” and said “most likely they would be flown to Saudi Arabia.”
Deportation may be delayed
Federal Minister for Interior Rehman Malik on Tuesday hinted that the deportation process may delay the departure of Osama bin Laden’s family from Pakistan.
Speaking to media, he said that in order to deport the widows of Osama Bin Laden, letters had been written to the diplomatic representatives of relative countries.
He added that once confirmation is received from the respective embassies, Bin Laden’s family will be deported.
The widows had been handed a 45 day detention notice and Rs10000 fine for illegally entering Pakistan. That notice expires at midnight.
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In fact, establishment of an Islamic state was intolerable for them,so they hatched a conspiracy not for Afghanistan but all Islamic countries,including Pakistan and Iran. Be considered the last days of former U.S.A. president.
@MarkH: please mark even you have to wonder why in the world would anyone kill and quickly dispose off any evidence he ever existed, and this after you hunt him for more than 15 - 20 years. The same kill order could have been given to saddam.
He should have been made an example of what happens when you mess with world powers or even find out who he is helping or getting helped from be it the isi or anyone. What im saying are simply the facts not trying to spew a conspiracy theory but it is very odd. The only reason that one would want him dead is either that he doesnt somehow galvanize all the jihadis and attack everwhere ( unlikely but possible) or to have secrets die with him. When governments dictate local laws like tax reforms everyone seems to have an opinion about right or wrong but when a government mentions military victories or losses everyone blindly accepts it.
@ Hit-man: I hope you are not serious. Get a reality check.
Is Shabaaz Sharif going to buy them a Villa in Yemen and Saudi Arabia?
@Pakistan politics: Yes, they probably would know more about it having been living with the man who planned it. What's your point? Pointless question, I know you don't have a point. You just made a really horrible attempt at hinting towards a conspiracy. Make sure you wear your helmet and try not to drool on your keyboard.
OBL's sons will come back to Pakistan to wage jihad against the infidels and enforcing Sharia in the whole country.
I m sure this family can tell lot about the 9/11 drama more than the pentagon
The Lawyer of the Bin Laden family is saying that the family is gong to leave etc. Why is he not denying that Bin laden was killed and that the SEAL's raided the wrong house etc.
Where are all the conspiracy theorists who deny the presence of OBL in Aboottabad ?
pls make sure they all leave and none comes back!! good riidance to bad rubbish