British Grandmother marries bin Laden's 27 yr old son

[Kathryn41 3,205]

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British gran 'marries' Osama's son

July 12, 2007 - 12:37PM

"I fell in love with Omar. He's an innocent man who I never judged by his father's reputation"

Sixth marriage ... Jane Felix-Browne from Moulton near Manchester says she's married Osama bin Laden's son.

A British grandmother says she has married one of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's sons, nearly half her age.

Six-times married Jane Felix-Browne, 51, said she met Omar bin Laden, 27, while riding a horse near Egypt's Great Pyramid and they married on April 24.

The Times and Sun newspapers, which initially reported the story, said she was in Egypt for medical treatment for multiple sclerosis at the time.

Ms Felix-Browne confirmed that and said she was returning to Egypt this weekend for further treatment. She said she won't meet her husband there but they talk each day via the internet.

The couple have had Islamic marriage ceremonies in both Egypt and Saudi Arabia, she said. She said she was his second wife - Islam allows men to have up to four wives.

There was no independent confirmation of her claim that they two had married or that he was indeed Osama bin Laden's son.

The Sun printed a copy of what it said was their wedding certificate and pictures purportedly showing the couple in Egypt.

The document, filled out by hand in Arabic and English, carried the names "Omar Osama Mohammed bin Laden", identified as Saudi, and "Zaina Mohamad Al-Sabah", identified as British, along with what appeared to be signatures.

Ms Felix-Browne, who also uses the name Zaina Mohamad, is a parish councillor, with three children by previous marriages and five grandchildren. This would be her sixth marriage.

She said was hoping to arrange a visa for her new husband to visit Britain, but acknowledged it would be difficult.

Because her husband's name is bin Laden, he finds it very difficult to travel anywhere, and would probably not be accepted in her village, she said.

Ms Felix-Browne said she would one day like to meet her father-in-law to find out if he really is the mastermind behind the terrorist atrocities he is accused of.

She said the world could benefit from such a meeting if she was able to discuss peace with him.

She said she married the son, not the father.

"I fell in love with Omar. He's an innocent man who I never judged by his father's reputation. Only after we were together two months, did I ask him about Osama," she said.

The newlyweds were last together in May when she spent three weeks at his home in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, she said.

Jean-Charles Brisard, co-author of Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth, said the al-Qaeda leader does have a son named Omar.

Osama bin Laden remains in hiding nearly six years after his al-Qaeda terrorist network carried out the September 11, 2001, attacks.

In a new audiotape on Tuesday, al-Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri threatened Britain with more attacks, accusing London of defying the Islamic world by honoring novelist Salman Rushdie.

Last month, attackers failed in two car separate car bombing attacks in London and Glasgow. In July 2005, four suicide bombers killed more than 50 people in co-ordinated bombings on London's transit system.

Ms Felix-Browne said her husband, a scrap dealer and one of 18 brothers, was raised in Sudan and Afghanistan after his father left Saudi Arabia.

She said the father and son last met in Afghanistan in 2000.

She said Omar bin Laden was training to be a solider in Afghanistan at the age of 19, when he left his father "because he wanted to see the world and didn't want to fight and die young".

News of the nuptials caused a ripple of excitement in Moulton - a quaint English country village more accustomed to community fairs and dances than international media attention.

"It gave me goose bumps when I heard the news," said nursery supervisor Gill Targett, who knew Ms Felix-Browne.

"It's all very scary considering what Osama bin Laden has done to so many innocent people. He's still a relation and blood is thicker than water."

[MaydayDas 1]

[William33 110]

[Nagishkaw 510]

She will be sure to keep that boy up and coming.......

[sereia 0]

is this even true?

[Kathryn41 3,205]

It was reported as a regular news story in the Sydney Morning Herald, a legitimate daily newspaper from Sydney, Australia - not the National Enquirer or anything like that - so it was reported by them believing it to be true. Check her photo - she is actually a very beautiful woman. It is also on the link.

[mawilson 2,133]

She said Omar bin Laden was training to be a solider in Afghanistan at the age of 19, when he left his father "because he wanted to see the world and didn't want to fight and die young".

What's a "solider"?

[Heracles 417]

How the hell did the British ever conquer so much of the earth.

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i'm speechless

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

How the hell did the British ever conquer so much of the earth.

With our navy. And where that failed - with large exports of opium.

[Clarky and Tarah 0]

People are crazy.

[almaty 19]

hmmm...true love indeed......

just be careful though.,.when he says " i going to bang you!" he may not be talking about sex

Edited July 12, 2007 by almaty

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ooops