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'I'm proud of bin Laden's son'
12/07/2007 16:43 - (SA)
Riyadh - A British grandmother who recently married a son of al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden is proud of her husband, who does not know where his father is, she told a Saudi daily published on Thursday.
"I know that I'm married to the son of the most dangerous person in the world. But ... I'm proud of my husband Omar. I'm ready to defy the world for him," Jane Felix-Browne was quoted as saying in Asharq al-Awsat.
The 51-year-old grandmother and veteran of four earlier marriages, revealed on Wednesday that she had wed Omar Bin Laden, 24 years her junior, for whom she hopes to get a visa for travel to Britain, the daily said.
"I married the son, not the father. I hope that people will not judge me severely to have bound to a man whom I loved," she said
Felix-Browne, who has taken the Muslim name of Zaina Mohammed, claims her father is of Arab origin.
She presents herself as a Muslim woman agreeable to being Omar's second wife.
'Drawn to him'
Ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia, home to the two holiest sites in Islam, follows the Muslim custom of allowing a man to have as many as four wives.
The pair met last September while riding horses at the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. "I felt something drawing me to him," Felix-Browne said.
The paper printed photographs of the pair on horseback and what it said was their wedding certificate, dated April of this year.
Felix-Browne said her husband has had no contact with his notorious father since they lived together in Afghanistan in 2000.
'Convinced of Omar's honesty'
"He witnessed the birth of the al-Qaeda network but he did nothing wrong, as he was a boy during his time there," Felix-Browne said.
"I'm totally convinced of Omar's honesty and he doesn't at all know where his father is," she added.
Osama bin Laden is the leader of the al-Qaeda Islamic network, which is widely considered to be responsible for the September 11 2001 attacks on the United States and the July 7 2005 suicide bombings on London's public transport network.
- AFP
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