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Tiger Woods -- Divorce Finalized

2010-10-22T16:38:00.000+09:00

It's finally over -- Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren have officially finalized their divorce ... TMZ has confirmed.
Tiger and Elin were both present at Bay County Circuit Court in Panama City, Florida earlier today for the execution of their divorce agreement ... this according to court officials.

The divorce docs do not reveal details about the split -- and the terms of the settlement were not disclosed. But as TMZ first reported, Elin is set to receive $100 million from Tiger.

Elin's lawyers released the following statement on behalf of the couple: "We are sad that our marriage is over and we wish each other the very best for the future."

The statement continues, "While we are no longer married, we are the parents of two wonderful children and their happiness has been, and will always be, of paramount importance to both of us."

"Once we came to the decision that our marriage was at an end, the primary focus of our amicable discussions has been to ensure their future well-being. The weeks and months ahead will not be easy for them as we adjust to a new family situation, which is why our privacy must be a principal concern."

ok finally everthing is over,congratulations

Surrogate mother miscarried Osama’s twin grandchildren

2010-10-15T13:09:00.000+09:00

London, Sep 13 (IANS) The British surrogate mother who was carrying Osama Bin Laden’s twin grandchildren has suffered a miscarriage after being attacked by two men in Syria.
Louise Pollard, 24, was ten weeks into pregnancy when she lost the twin conceived through in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) using the sperm of Bin Laden’s son Omar and the eggs of his 54-year-old British wife, Zaina, previously known as Jane Felix-Browne.
Pollard was travelling in Syria with Omar’s wife. She was attacked as she walked alone from a cafe to her accommodation late at night. The assailants did not speak, but punched her to the ground, and then ran away, leaving her with a black eye and bruising on her arms and legs, the Daily Mail reported Monday.
Pollard, who hails from Bristol, managed to get back to her apartment, and later went to hospital where a scan showed she had lost the babies. “There was no heart beat,” said Pollard.
She said she has no idea of the motivation for the attack, but says she has been recognised both in Britain and in the Middle East as the “Western woman carrying Bin Laden children”.
Since her ordeal, which she did not report to the police, Pollard has decided not to attempt another surrogacy for the Bin Ladens, who have now separated amid claims that Omar has developed mental illness.
But she insists her decision has nothing to do with the couple’s connection to the world’s most wanted terrorist. She said: “I feel as a surrogate mother that I have to think about the child’s future.”
“When I agreed to the arrangement, I was trying to help what seemed like a stable happy couple who wanted to have a family. Just because they have the surname they do, does not mean they have done anything wrong,” she said.
“But now they’ve split up. Zaina is a grandmother in her fifties, on her own, with not much money, and Omar is apparently suffering from schizophrenia. They have more fertilised eggs to use, but because of Zaina’s age, I have been told they are probably not that viable anyway.”
The Bin Ladens were due to pay Pollard 10,000 pounds after the birth of any child she carried for them. However, she says that thanks to travel costs, child-care for her own four-year-old son Jaden and other expenses, she is actually 250 pounds out of pocket.
Pollard, who once worked as a pole dancer to fund an accountancy degree, says she will continue being a surrogate mother for other couples.
Sunday Omar Bin Laden said there was no chance of a reconciliation with his wife.
Asked for his reaction to Pollard’s miscarriage, he said he accepted it as “destiny”.

dun tell me..i told u so...the risk of carrying world's most wanted terrorist heirs

Omar Bin Laden Wants To Date Drew Barrymore

2010-10-15T12:57:00.000+09:00

Newly single Omar bin Laden, the son of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, says he dreams of a date with Drew Barrymore.
"I want to go to America, and I would love to meet Drew Barrymore," said Omar, 29, who recently split from wife Zaina, 25 years his senior. "I am single now and she is the most beautiful woman in Hollywood."
Yet it turns out the actress is not the junior Laden's sole interest in American popular culture. Speaking from a Doha, Qatar hotel in an interview with The Sun, he also professes an admiration for Jim Carrey, American football, rock music and Madonna. "She's such a great dancer for a woman of her age," he says of the Material Girl, 51.
While it may be surprising to hear Omar, who was once anointed as his father's successor, speak of Western pop icons in such endearing terms, he notes that he and his father differ in their political views. "It's a weak son who just wants to be like his daddy," he said. "I miss him as a father, but we are different. I want peace."
The Sun's interview with Omar ran on the same day a controversial Indian film featuring a lookalike of his father hit international cinemas. "Tere Bin Laden" (or "Without You Laden") is said to be a slapstick Bollywood comedy about a TV journalist who films a video with a bin Laden look-alike in an effort to gain American residency. While Omar claims he and his infamous father haven't been in contact since April 2001, he remains certain Osama is still alive.
"If that sort of person dies, you could never make it a secret. The world changes if he dies," he said.

oh..I dun think Drew wanted to be followed by FBI and CIA and thinking when the next bomb will explore for Omar's father;s hatred towards the American...this is crazy!!!

omar bin laden is mental???

2010-10-14T22:56:00.000+09:00

Bin Laden's son and British wife split after he heard 'Osama's voice in his head

The son of Osama Bin Laden and his British wife have split up after he began to hear his father's voice in his head, it has emerged.
The fourth eldest child of the Al Qaeda mastermind was admitted to a psychiatric hospital last week with drug-induced schizophrenia.
Omar Bin Laden and his wife Zaina, from Cheshire, revealed last month that they'd been hoping to have a baby with surrogate mother Louise Pollard from Bristol.
Mrs Pollard was had fertility treatment in an attempt to conceive using the sperm of 29-year-old Omar and the eggs of his 54-year-old wife Jane Felix Browne - who changed her name to Zaina when they married.

After the third attempt, Mrs Pollard, 29, vowed to try again. It was unclear last night whether or not the fourth round of IVF treatment had been a success.
Bin Laden has had several visa applications to live in Britain rejected. A British son may help his case, although Home Office officials said he would not automatically be granted a visa.
The couple split after weeks of erratic behaviour which saw Bin Laden racking up £3,000 of motoring fines and going on wild shopping sprees.
His wife told the Sun she was heartbroken but couldn't cope anymore.
She said: 'Our wedding vows said "in sickness and in health" but if this goes on any longer I could end up dead.' The couple met in Egypt in 2006 and enjoyed a whirlwind romance before getting married.
Zaina, who had been married six times before, revealed she knew Bin Laden had bipolar disorder when she met him. She said: 'He'd have manic periods when he was very enthusiastic about everything.

Voices: Omar bin Laden's strange behaviour has included hearing the voice of his terrorist father in his head

'Then crashing lows when he would be quiet and subdued, staying in bed all day and not going to sleep until late at night.'
The grandmother of five blames her husband's troubles solely on his father and the terrorist atrocities he inspired.
She said: 'There's no one else responsible for this. Omar loves and hates Osama at the same time.
'He loves him because he is his father but hates what he has done. I think he suffered post-traumatic stress disorder after 9/11. Seeing what his dad done ruined Omar's life.'
She also claimed that the row over his visa combined with Bin Laden family pressures led to her husband's mental state worsening.
He had been living in Qatar and keeping in touch with his wife by phoning and emailing her daily at her home in Moulton, Cheshire.
Ten days ago, concerned at the condition he was in, Zaina flew to Qatar where she took her husband to a doctor. He was immediately referred to a psychiatric unit. But after three days he checked himself out and his bizarre behaviour continued.
The final straw came when he took the car out and was driving erratically when Zaina was with him. She said: 'It was as if he had drunk ten pints. I was trying to lean over and grab the wheel, I didn't want to die in a crash.
'When we got back I told him I wanted a divorce and returned to England on Monday.
'I still love him with all my heart but I just can't be with him until he is better.'

I'm carrying Bin Laden's surrogate grandchild... but the baby's parents have split up

2010-10-14T22:37:00.003+09:00

Positive test: Surrogate mother Louise Pollard with Zaina Bin Laden

The woman who agreed to become a surrogate mother for Osama Bin Laden's son and his British wife has discovered she is pregnant - just as the couple have split up.
Louise Pollard, a 24-year-old PA from Bristol, took a pregnancy test only a fortnight after embryos were implanted during IVF treatment in the United Arab Emirates, and the result was positive.
At the third attempt, she is expecting Osama Bin Laden's British grandchild.
As the Mail revealed last month, Omar Bin Laden, 29, and his wife, Zaina, 54 (a six-times-married grandmother of five who used to go by the name of Jane Felix-Browne), hired Louise to carry a child for them.
The embryos were to be created with Omar's sperm and Zaina's eggs. Despite her age, Zaina insists the eggs - fertilised two years ago with her husband's sperm and then frozen - really are her own.
That, of course, was incredible enough. But the story has taken yet another twist.
Yesterday, Zaina Bin Laden revealed that she had dumped her husband after he was diagnosed with schizophrenia following weeks of erratic behaviour during which he began to hear his father's voice in his head.
So what does Louise make of all this?
'When I did the pregnancy test, I was over the moon for them,' she said at a secret location in Britain where she and Zaina Bin Laden are supporting each other.
'This was before it emerged that Omar and Zaina had broken up. I'm still happy they're having the baby they've dreamt about but I feel very nervous.'
As well she might, for there are those who believe her actions to be, at best, misguided and, at worst, contemptible.
'I've had many offensive messages from strangers on Facebook and hate mail. Some people have said I should be stabbed in the stomach, others have said they hope the baby dies.'

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The apparent breakdown of the Bin Ladens' marriage is a further blow.
'Although Zaina has assured me the split is just a temporary break until Omar is better, I do feel let down. My intention in going through IVF treatment was to give them a baby as a married couple, to complete their family.'
Even so, Louise - who has a son, Jaden, from a previous relationship - intends to press ahead with the pregnancy.
'I can't criticise single mothers or say Zaina won't do a good job raising the baby alone because I was a single mum myself, and I know Zaina will be a great mum.
'But, having put myself through three gruelling rounds of IVF for, as I believed, a couple who had a stable relationship, I am concerned. I'm also in shock.

Father and son: Omar Bin Laden, left, has been hearing the voice of his father, Osama Bin Laden, in his head

'When I was with them, they appeared extremely happy. It all changed after I had the IVF treatment. The day before I was due to fly home, Omar flipped and I started thinking "What have I done?"
'I had no idea that Omar was about to have a breakdown and that they would break up. And now I'm pregnant it's too late. I certainly wouldn't terminate a pregnancy after going through IVF three times to achieve it.
'I know people will think firstly, "Why is this woman having a surrogate baby for Omar Bin Laden?" and secondly, "Why is she doing this for a man who is mentally ill?"
'I want to make it crystal clear that I did not know there was anything wrong with Omar. I knew he had depression, but then so do lots of men who, with medication, are able to have happy family lives.'
Despite Omar's current mental state, he is, says Louise, delighted with the news of the baby and looking forward to being a father again (he has a seven-year-old son from a previous marriage).
'He phoned me on Wednesday, after I found out, and said he's really pleased. He had been released from the psychiatric hospital and was at home.

Marriage breakdown: Omar Bin Laden and his wife Zaina, from Cheshire, split after he began to suffer with mental illness

'I asked him if he'd like a boy or a girl, and he said a boy. He said girls have a hard time in the Muslim culture, but that it's easier for a boy.'
That a 24-year-old from Bristol is now carrying the grandchild of the world's most wanted man is extraordinary. That its father is also so troubled should surely concern her even more.
But Louise remains unrepentant: 'Omar's breakdown is far from ideal, but he's haunted by his past and the legacy of his name, but whatever Osama Bin Laden has done, the baby I am carrying is innocent.'
The procedure was carried out in the United Arab Emirates, where Omar Bin Laden lives (his wife splits her time between homes there and in Cheshire).
'After calling at the fertility clinic for a scan, we had some drinks at a nearby hotel and Omar was the perfect gentleman.
That night we watched a DVD, and Omar and Zaina were cuddling together on the sofa. She was so content that she fell asleep in his arms.

Mr & Mrs Bin Laden: The couple pictured together in happier times in the desert near Giza, Cairo, Egypt

'On Saturday morning, Zaina and I went to the clinic for treatment and that evening, we all watched the England football game. But while the match was on, Omar got some bad news from his family and was clearly upset.
I don't know what it was about, but when we all got back to their apartment they had a row. I wasn't too concerned. All couples row, don't they?'
But by the next morning, it was clear that Omar's mood had dramatically shifted.
Louise recalled: 'Omar drove us into town, and he was going round roundabouts without looking and mounting the pavement.
'He was completely reckless and Zaina and I were shouting at him. I was terrified, I thought we'd die. Then he went to a shop and spent around £1,000 without even trying anything on.
'When we got back, he started saying he wanted to divorce me. Zaina and I thought he was joking at first - we said to him he'd signed a surrogacy contract with me, not a marriage one.
'But he was shouting "I want to divorce Louise, I want to divorce Louise" and Zaina was shouting "You're not married to Louise".
'I felt really alarmed, I wondered what I'd got myself into.'
The next day, Louise flew back to the UK. But, 48 hours later, she heard that Omar had announced on local TV that he and Zaina were to divorce. Horrified, Louise phoned Zaina.
'Zaina told me that, after I'd left, Omar had been sectioned and diagnosed with schizophrenia. She said he'd been hearing the voice of his father in his head, that she couldn't take any more and was leaving him and flying out of the country.
'I was very upset and angry that they were even talking about getting divorced. At that point, I didn't know I was pregnant. But when I found out, I was thinking, "What about the baby?"'
It is a distressing development in a tale that began earlier this year, when Zaina contacted Louise via the website www. surrogatemother.com.
As the Daily Mail reported exclusively last month, when Louise realised the connection with Osama Bin Laden, she immediately turned Zaina down. It was only on reflection that she changed her mind.

Omar Bin Laden, right, and his wife Zaina, formerly known as Jane Felix-Brown

'I basically thought that if I don't help this couple then no one will,' said Louise, who describes surrogacy as her 'calling' and has already had two babies for a London-based childless couple in their 40s.
She met Zaina and decided to go ahead.
'I am only getting my expenses paid. The law in the UK states a maximum payment of £12,000 can be made to surrogates to cover expenses only.'
Did she never notice anything strange about Omar's behaviour?
'I noticed that Zaina really looked after him - she'd make him go to bed early to stop him getting tired. Then I saw him taking some medication.
'Zaina told me it was anti-depressants as he had bipolar disorder, but that his condition was under control. I wasn't worried - depression is such a common illness and given his history, it's hardly surprising Omar's suffered.
'I'd never imagined he end up sectioned because of it.'
Despite his erratic behaviour, she remains fond of Omar. 'During the trips I've been out to the UAE, I've grown close to Omar and Zaina. I genuinely care for him and, the baby aside, it's upsetting for me to hear he is in such a state.'
For now, with a Bin Laden baby forming inside her, Louise is hoping that the couple will reconcile.
'Zaina is saying if they don't get back together, she will raise the baby alone and it will attend a normal school in the UK, but I know she sees this split as temporary,' she said.
'She really thinks they will get back together.
'As for me, I'm pregnant now, and all being well I will go on to have the baby. So I have no choice but to make the best of the situation.'
Louise had hoped to keep her relationship with the Bin Ladens secret, but after a family member of hers informed a downmarket newspaper she found herself at the centre of a media storm.
'It was awful, which is why I felt compelled to put my side of the story across,' she says.
'I'm terrified about the reaction I'm going to get. I want people to realise I did this with the best of intentions and that I don't believe this unborn child should have to suffer.'

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So SO SO..I wonder..what will happen to the baby?another bin laden surname???poor thing!!

Bin Laden's son dumped by first wife for marrying Brit granny

2007-08-20T13:33:00.000+09:00

Bin Laden's son dumped by first wife for marrying Brit granny

London August 4

Osama bin Laden's fourth son Omar has been dumped by his Saudi wife for marrying an English grandmother, a British tabloid reported here today.

Rasha bin Laden, who is in her 20s and lived with her 27-year-old husband along their two-year-old son at Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, has vowed never to return to Omar until he leaves 51-year-old Jane Felix-Browne, 'The Sun' reported.

In fact, Omar's first wife Rasha is enraged by the publicity over her husband's second marriage to the five-time British divorcee.

"Rasha feels left out. Jane's always in the limelight -- the papers in Saudi Arabia are full of stories about her marriage to Omar. Rasha's made it clear she won't return unless things change," a source was quoted as saying.

Though Saudi law permits a man to have more than one wife, the unnamed source said, "Rasha feels humiliated. But Omar refuses to give up Jane so the marriage looks doomed." "I was told by my family that they do not approve of the marriage and there will be consequences. But I love my second wife and am not going to divorce her. I am going to struggle along with her and this will all settle down," Omar had earlier said.

When contacted, the 51-year-old daughter-in-law of Osama bin Laden who is still trying to acquire a visa to visit her latest hubby in Saudi Arabia, told the tabloid that she did not want to comment on Omar's troubled first marriage.

Omar, who runs a scrap-metal business in Jeddah, recently married his besotted bride in an Islamic ceremony at a friend's house in Cairo with just two of his relatives as witnesses, following a whirlwind romance which began in Egypt last September when he spotted Felix-Brown riding a horse near the Great Pyramid.

britney spears vs paparazzi

2007-08-01T14:14:00.000+09:00

World Updates
Wednesday August 1, 2007

Britney Spears accused of threatening to kill paparazzi outside Las Vegas spa

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Britney Spears threw a baby bottle and threatened two photographers after they took pictures of her leaving a Las Vegas spa, the photographers said in a statement.

Spears yelled "I am going to kill you!'' and cursed at Andrew Deetz, a photographer who says he was beaten by Spears' bodyguard on Thursday, according to a statement released Tuesday by Deetz's lawyers.

Deetz, 24, is preparing to sue, his lawyers said. The other photographer involved was Kyle Henderson, 23. They both work for a celebrity photography company called Flynet Pictures, which sells to such publications as People and US Weekly, according to Daniel Kogan, a spokesman for Deetz's lawyers.

The men were taking pictures of Spears, 25, as she and her children _ 22-month-old Sean Preston Federline and 10-month-old Jayden James Federline _ left the spa at the Wynn Las Vegas casino-hotel around 11:30 a.m., accompanied by two bodyguards.

One bodyguard, Cesar Julio Camera, 37, pushed Henderson against the wall until Wynn security intervened and asked Henderson to leave, the statement said.

As they were about 30 paces away and walking in the opposite direction, Camera attacked Deetz from behind, threw him on the ground and punched and kicked him until security pulled him off, it said.

Afterward, Spears ran toward Henderson but was stopped by security, and then threw a baby bottle at him, it said.

Then, in front of several other hotel guests and bystanders, Spears threatened to kill Deetz and said he should get a restraining order against her because she was going to kill him or hire someone that would, it said.

Camera also told Deetz on July 23 outside the Lisa Kline boutique in Beverly Hills, "I have unfinished business with you,'' the statement alleged. Spears' lawyer Gary Stiffelman declined to comment. Wynn Las Vegas released a statement confirming that Spears stayed at the hotel and left on Thursday, but also declined to discuss the confrontation.

"We respect the privacy and do our utmost to maintain the anonymity of our guests,'' it said.

Las Vegas police issued a summons for a charge of battery to Camera, the only person cited. He could face up to six months in county jail and a $1,000 (euro730) fine if convicted.

Stiffelman's office would not relay messages to Camera seeking comment, and The Associated Press was unable to find a phone number for him. - AP

Harry Potter Spoilers

2007-07-21T09:47:00.000+09:00

Dear my brothers,
Voldemort killed Hermione. Yes, that's true. And we knew that 2 days ago.
This is the end of the not yet published (someone could call that
0day) book
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows .
At the end of the story Hagrid was killed by Snape in the attempt of
ambush Hermione and Ron.
Ron and Hermione flees in privet drive but Voldermort, surprising them, engaged a magical duel with Ron and Hermione.
Voldemort attacked trough the imperius curse and Hermione, to
protect the life of Ron fight hardly for more than 6 pages and then
finally die.

(boring, very boring... it's always the same story!)
Then, to make a long story short, Harry came up, killed all the bad
guys and Hogwarts against became a good place to stay and have fun.

Ah, i missed one important information about Draco Malfoy, he
started to create Horcrux (for fun and profit!).
The end.
************************************************************
Yes, we did it.
We did it by following the precious words of the great Pope Benedict
XVI when he still was Cardinal Josepth Ratzinger.
He explained why Harry Potter bring the youngs of our earth to Neo
Paganism faith.

So we make this spoiler to make reading of the upcoming book useless
and boring.

The attack strategy was the easiest one. The usual milw0rm downloaded exploit delivered by email/click-on-the-link/open-browser/click-on-this-animated-icon/back-connect to some employee of Bloomsbury Publishing, the company that's behind the Harry crap. It's amazing to see how much people inside the company have copies
and drafts of this book.Curiosity killed the cat.
Who kill curiosity?

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Harry Potter

2007-07-20T21:20:00.000+09:00

A fitting finale for Harry

Clearly, since this is the last chapter, J.K. Rowling decided to go all out.

It may not be the longest book in the series, but "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" definitely packs the most punch. The drama starts on the first page and continues practically throughout the entire story.
With Book 7, Rowling brings her phenomenally successful series about the young wizard to a close. And what a close it is.

There were some complaints that Book 6 — "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" — didn't have a lot of action until the end, that its role seemed to be filling in important bits of back story and setting the stage for the final installment.

There will be no such complaints here. The pace picks up from the start, with readers thrown into a world that's much darker than any of the previous Potter books. Harry and friends Ron and Hermione are on a quest some weeks after the death of Headmaster Albus
Dumbledore, and it's time to put aside familiar faces and places and get on their way.

Lord Voldemort, Harry's nemesis, seems to be everywhere, his tentacles of power reaching into every corner. It's a dangerous world they must travel, and no place or happy occasion is safe. Their journey takes them to some unexpected locations and makes them interact with a whole host of characters, including some who were merely references in other books and some who are painfully familiar faces.

Old antagonists from previous books show up — one of whom enters into a positive relationship with Harry, and another who continues to wallow in all the traits that inspired Harry's hatred.

Harry, Ron and Hermione are on the search for horcruxes, vessels that Voldemort created to hold pieces of his soul, which make it impossible to kill him as long as they exist. The search has them moving over various parts of the United Kingdom as they try to fit all the pieces together. Many secrets are finally revealed, all leading up to the ultimate confrontation between Harry and the wizard who tried to kill him so long ago.

Rowling captured many hearts with her first book, and her last is guaranteed to keep them. She is amazingly gifted, demonstrated not only by the incredibly detailed world she has created, but by the depth of feeling and complexity she writes into her characters.

It's all here: humor, courage, redemption, sadness, terror, human frailty — sometimes all in the same character. There are sections that will make readers laugh out loud, as well as scenes of such sadness that tears are inevitable.

From a boy of 11, Harry has become a young man, determined to take on quite a burden. He suffers because of his commitment, and he's not the only one. Rowling said characters would die, and she meant it. Pain and death are constant companions, and sometimes who is taken is a shocker. The deaths aren't always drawn-out, violent scenes; sometimes, you discover that someone has died at the same time Harry does.

Characters you thought you knew surprise you. Some grow in unexpected (and not always pleasant) ways, while others have more complicated pasts than you could ever imagine. No one's life is simple — with a couple of Death Eater exceptions, many of the characters prove that you can't make assumptions about people's motivations.

Rowling rewards her faithful readers; there are numerous allusions to people, places, spells and objects that were mentioned in earlier books. It's a pleasure to see how she closes the loop she opened so many years ago with the story of a young boy who one day discovered he was a wizard.

And, of course, she answers many questions: Why did Snape kill Dumbledore? Is Snape Harry's enemy? Where are the horcruxes? What are the deathly hallows?

It's been a long, long road to get to this point (the first book was published in the United States almost a decade ago), and Rowling does herself proud. She completes her entertaining, compulsively readable series with a book that is both heartbreaking and hopeful, one that left this reader sad to say goodbye to Harry but thoroughly satisfied at how it all went.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" to "Deathly Hallows," Rowling has completed an astonishing cycle of books that can only be described as a true literary classic.

British grandmother married bin Laden's son "for love"

2007-07-15T13:40:00.000+09:00

UK News

London - A British woman who married a son of Osama bin Laden after a holiday romance in Egypt has pleaded not be judged 'too harshly' by her compatriots, according to press reports Wednesday.

Jane Felix-Browne, 51, from Cheshire in northern Britain, met Omar Ossama bin Laden, 27, near the Great Pyramid in Egypt last September.

She has been married five times before, reports said.

Her new husband already has a wife and a two-year-old child, while Felix-Brown has three grown-up sons and five grandchildren.

She had married Omar, who was 'a beautiful person,' out of love, Felix-Browne told the Times.

'I hope people don't judge me too harshly,' she told the Times. 'I married the son, not the father.'

Bin Laden is Back!!!

2007-07-15T13:32:00.000+09:00

By OMAR SINAN, Associated Press Writer

Bin Laden appears in new al-Qaida video

CAIRO, Egypt - A new al-Qaida videotape posted Sunday on a militant Web site featured a short, undated clip of a weary-looking Osama bin Laden praising martyrdom.

The bin Laden clip, which lasted less than a minute, was part of a 40-minute video featuring purported al-Qaida fighters in Afghanistan paying tribute to fellow militants who have been killed in the country.

Bin Laden glorified those who die in the name of jihad, or holy war, saying even the Prophet Muhammad "had been wishing to be a martyr."

"The happy (man) is the one that God has chosen him to be a martyr," added bin Laden, who was shown outdoors wearing army fatigues and looking tired.

The authenticity of the video could not be verified, but it appeared on a Web site commonly used by Islamic militants and carried the logo of as-Sahab, al-Qaida's media production wing. It was not immediately clear when the video of bin Laden was filmed.

Bin Laden was last heard from in a July 1, 2006 audio tape in which he voiced support for the new leader of al-Qaida in Iraq and warned nations not to send troops to fight a hardline Islamic regime that had recently seized power in Somalia.

Sunday's video, dedicated to Muslims who have left their homes to fight jihad, included a series of animated scenes showing green fields overlaid with Arabic names written in gold, representing Arab fighters who had died in Afghanistan.

Following one such sequence, the self-proclaimed leader of al-Qaida in Afghanistan appeared praising his fellow fighters.

"Your hero sons, courageous knights have left to the land of Afghanistan ... the land of jihad and martyrdom, answering the call for the sake of God to kick out the occupier who has desecrated the pure soil of Afghanistan," said Mustafa Abu al-Yazeed.

In another clip, a man identified as Mujahid Haidarah al-Hawn was shown sitting in front of a tree with an AK-47 paying tribute to a Syrian fighter, Osama al-Hamawi, who died in an air raid in Afghanistan.

"I lived with him for four years," said al-Hawn, who wore a black scarf to cover his face. "He used to be my emir (commander) . . . He was a brother with extreme modesty."

A photo of al-Hamawi's face, apparently taken after his death, was broadcast, showing bruises around his eye and a red gash on his forehead.

A bearded man identified as Abu Yahia al-Libi, a Libyan al-Qaida operative in Afghanistan, appeared in the video wearing a black turban, saying the Muslim world was "offering the best of its men and sacrificing the good of its sons ... to protect its ideology."

Al-Libi escaped U.S. custody in 2005 and is believed to be behind a suicide bombing that killed 23 people outside the main U.S. base in Afghanistan during a February visit by Vice President Dick Cheney.

Several other al-Qaida operatives from various countries who had apparently committed suicide attacks in Afghanistan were shown reading statements lashing out at the West before their deaths.

The video also contained a series of clips with militants wearing traditional Afghan dress and carrying rifles and RPG launchers through the mountains. Militants could also be seen exercising in training camps.

At the end of the broadcast, images of the Sept. 11 attacks were shown, and a voice could be heard saying, "In a few days, the crusaders' landmarks were flattened."

Revealed in the world's first full interview: The bizarre world of Mrs Bin Laden

2007-07-15T13:06:00.000+09:00

From:Dailymail.UK

Heavens, what a mess. The new Mrs Bin Laden is about to board a flight out of the UK, and it's not going according to plan.

First, our telephone interview is abruptly halted when the police "would like a word" with her. "Gotta go, I think I am being questioned," snaps Jane Felix-Browne, and the line goes dead.

Ten minutes later, she is back - minus her passport and boarding pass, apparently - and reading aloud from a card that has been kindly handed to her, presumably by some men with large guns.

"Under Section 7 of the Terrorism Act, it is your duty to be truthful... you must provide any documents, passports... blah blah blah... you are not under arrest," she reads.

Woah! Hold on. Is she being detained? On what grounds? Surely even she wouldn't be daft enough to put her married name on her passport?

She sounds irritated rather than concerned. "It's a formality. I've done nothing wrong. I've had this before. Let's keep talking until they come back."

However, we are again interrupted - this time by a choking sound that cuts her off in mid-sentence. Whatever now?

Has she been marched away in handcuffs? Strangled? Wrestled to the ground by a fellow passenger who took issue with the family name?

Alas, nothing so dramatic. "Sorry," she splutters. "I was trying to take a drink while wearing a burka. I've poured it down me. What a mess."

So begins the farce that is interviewing Jane Felix-Browne, aka Mrs Omar Bin Laden, daughter-in-law of Osama - yes, that Osama.

A few days ago, her neighbours in the tranquil Cheshire village of Moulton knew Jane as just another slightly dotty grandmother who sat on the parish council.

She was a bit odd, granted, with a face unnaturally smoothed, it was rumoured, by Botox and the surgeon's scalpel.

She was always off on exotic jaunts to the Middle East, and spoke of her devout Islamic faith - but all in clipped English tones.

And, of course, there was the small matter of her five former husbands, as well as her latest, who at 27 is young enough to be her son.

Still, that sort of gossip-fodder was nothing compared to what the good folk of Moulton faced this week when Jane, 51, was unveiled - metaphorically, at least - as Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden's daughter-in-law.

She had met his fourth son, Omar, on a riding holiday in Egypt and fallen madly in love. The fact that his father was the most notorious terrorist the world has ever known was never something that was going to stand in Jane's way.

It seems it's not even an issue that was discussed at length before the marriage ceremony.

Today, she is taking family loyalty to a somewhat improbable level, insisting again that the Bin Laden patriarch might just be innocent. With a jaw-dropping combination of stupidity and naivety, she says in her best school ma'am voice, when I raise the question of the Twin Towers: "I mean, do you know - beyond all doubt - that he did it?

"If so, I'd like you to show me the evidence. I don't think it's nice to make assumptions about someone when you don't know the facts."

The blushing bride agreed yesterday to tell her remarkable story to the Mail - but refused point blank to do a face-to-face interview, presumably because she was too busy making arrangements to flee the country.

It's strangely apt, however, that we end up trying to piece together this astonishing saga over the phone. It is precisely how she communicates with her new husband. She hasn't seen him in the flesh since they tied the knot last autumn.

I ask if it isn't a rather bizarre way to conduct a marriage. She says: "Absolutely not. We can talk for hours and hours on the phone, and we do. We also have the internet, which is fantastic. Then there's the webcam. We both have great cameras, you see."

Word is that as soon as she can be reunited with her passport, Jane is off to Saudi Arabia and back into Omar's arms, although she refuses to confirm this, saying instead that she is "going abroad. That is all you need to know".

She concedes, though, that one day Saudi will be her ideal place to live.

"I would like to settle in Saudi with him. Of course, I'd keep my home in Cheshire - I am British, after all - but a woman's place is by her husband's side."

But doesn't he already have a home? And a wife and child?

"Yes, but I'd set up another home nearby, and he would come and go between the two. It is quite normal, really. I don't mind at all - why should I? I'm not jealous of his wife.

"I have spoken to her. Lots of married men in this country have girlfriends. At least he is being honest."

She says she talked to her husband yesterday, and he is as bemused as she is at the headlines their marriage has generated. "He thinks it's been blown out of proportion, as I do," she says. "It's not that complicated, really. I fell in love with the man and I married him. What else is there to say? Who his father is doesn't come into the equation."

On one level, it's staggering that a Cheshire divorcÈe can get herself into this extraordinary position. Yet somehow, those who know Jane Felix-Browne aren't surprised.

Hers has been, by any standards, an eyebrow-raising life. She says herself that she doesn't do convention.

Her last husband may have been an RAC patrolman, but you get the impression that such mundanity was never part of Jane's grand plan.

"Well, what can I say? Lots of people live in a three-bed semi, go to work, have two kids and are happy with that. I never aspired to that sort of life."

Actually, she seems worryingly in her element in the limelight. I ask how she has been coping with the pressure - meaning the intense strain of knowing your every move will now be documented, whether by the press or the security services.

She misses the point. "I'm doing fine. Nothing really fazes me. I'm pretty good on live TV, as you've probably seen."

Halfway through our interview, I make a comment about her father-in-law inspiring the biggest manhunt in history. She laughs. For a day at least, she has elbowed Daddy-in-law out of the picture.

"Actually, I think the biggest manhunt in history is for me today. Everyone is after me. They're not bothered about him."

IF MI6 agents routinely listen in on Jane Felix-Browne's conversations - as she rather grandly assumes they do - they must want to tear their hair out.

She can talk for England on Millsand-Boon topics like love at first sight and true romance, but is woefully evasive on such matters as her own name. The new Mrs Bin Laden found names irritating long before she acquired her most notorious one.

She snorts as she admits that she came into the world as Paula Joy Hanson. She hated the Paula bit.

"I meet people with the name Paula now, and I have to say 'That's a nice name' because I don't want to be rude. But I hated it. I didn't have a happy childhood and I wanted to be rid of that name as soon as possible because it had such bad connotations."

She won't say what was so terrible about her childhood, but whatever it was, she concedes, affected everything. "I think what happened to me affected every relationship I've been in. I found it difficult to trust men, always have."

With hindsight, maybe just calling herself Joy, her middle name, would have solved the problem. But no. She declared that she would henceforth be known as Jane Felix-Browne. Why? "I liked it. Why not?" she replies.

She gets tetchy when she talks about taking her husbands' names.

"For a while I called myself Wakefield (during her marriage to John Wakefield). Then when I married Andrew Yeomans, he wanted me to take his name, too. I said: 'Enough with these bloody names.'"

Somewhere along the way, she also acquired the name Zaina Mohamad al Sabah - presumably when she converted to Islam as a teenager?

"I never said I converted," she exclaims angrily. She won't elaborate, but has previously claimed Arabic parentage. Her parents are reported as being a George and Beryl Hanson. She refuses to clear up the matter.

"My religion is a very private matter. It doesn't matter how I became a Muslim. Only that my Islamic faith is very important to me."

For all the holes in Jane's story - all of which give the impression that even she doesn't know who she is - we do know that she was a Muslim by the time she got married for the first time, at the age of 16.

This union - like her current one - was an Islamic religious marriage not recognised in law. She won't name the man, but tells me that the pressures of trying to have it formally recognised in this country helped destroy it.

That, however, was not an excuse she could use for the collapse of four subsequent legal marriages - all to non-Muslims.

The first was to fur-cutter Anthony Lomas in 1979, followed by Hell's Angel John Metcalfe, electronics company boss John Wakefield, then RAC man Andrew Yeomans. She talks a little about why each marriage collapsed, concluding that the only common denominator was a clash of cultures - between her faith and their way of life.

"All my husbands after that had a problem with my faith,' she says. 'None of them understood how important it was to my life."

Rather routine family demands also seemed to get in the way. "I had two children in my second marriage, Vincent, now 28, and Dean, 27, but I was ill and in hospital a lot. My husband couldn't cope with the situation.

"With the third, well, I think I went into that one because I wanted to be with someone. You change, you know. You grow up and finally realise what you want."

When she did get the chance to travel - when her children had grown up and she found herself single again - she fell in love with the Middle East, mainly because the culture was so entwined with her adopted Islamic faith.

"I've been described as this person with a very jet-set life. That wasn't true. Until ten years ago, my focus was at home, with my children."

Fifteen years ago, however, she says she was diagnosed with MS, and in the past decade has travelled regularly to Egypt for experimental treatment which involves being in an oxygen chamber. The bohemian lifestyle she enjoyed there was hugely appealing.

It was while on a horse-riding holiday to the Pyramids that she met the darkly handsome Omar. She was embarrassingly smitten and, strangely, the mention of his surname didn't have her running away screaming.

"Of course I knew who he was. Someone told me before he did - but I said 'So what?' When Omar and I talked at length, he asked me if I knew the name. I said: 'Of course.'

"He asked if it was OK, and I said yes, fine. I'm not the sort of person who is fazed by anything, and I truly believe that someone is innocent until proven guilty, so I wasn't about to start judging his father.

"What is that famous saying? 'One should never revisit the sins of the father on the son.'"

Still, on a purely practical level, it can't really be the stuff of dreams to marry someone who, she admits, is penniless and unable to get a decent job because of his name.

She scoffs at her critics who say she is just another naive, middle-aged British woman who has let herself be flattered by a young man with an eye on a cosy life in the UK.

"Look, he doesn't need me to get a visa to come to England. All he needs to do is go to the British Embassy in Saudi. It's ridiculous to say he is using me for that. London is full of Bin Ladens. Many of his uncles and aunts are here."

She also rejects claims that there is something suspect about a handsome young man like Omar being interested in her.

"Why is it ok for a 50-year-old man to marry a 20-year-old woman, but when a woman wants to be with a younger man it's seen as scandalous?"

Maybe she can weather the criticisms of strangers, but what of her own children and grandchildren? How on earth has she explained this one to them?

"My children adore Omar," she says expansively. "He is wonderful with them. He is the same age as my sons Vincent and Dean and he is like their best friend.

"In fact, it was my youngest son who signed the marriage papers. To make it official, he had to go with Omar and say he was giving me away. He was happy to do so. Why would he not be?"

I ask if her husband is proud of his name. "Yes, he is proud of his family."

Even his father? "I don't know. I have never asked him. But I know he was particularly proud of his grandfather Mohamed."

There is much confusion about the last time Omar actually saw his father. Some reports say they fell out after the attack on the World Trade Centre in a row about political 'tactics'.

Jane insists the pair have not spoken "since 2000 or early 2001". Whatever, she says the loss grieves her husband. "Of course, he loves his father. He misses him dreadfully, like any son would. Until someone proves him guilty, how can he stop that?"

Omar's military training in the Middle East - as part of his father's grand plan - seems to be of little consequence to Jane.

I ask if she accepts that he must once have shared his father's political beliefs.

"How do we know what his father's political views were?' she asks. 'How can we say? All I know is that my husband is not an extremist.

"He is not a fanatic. He is very peaceful and loving. He is not anti-Western in any way - how could he be when he married me?"

Jane has some strong political views of her own, albeit ones based on a hazy understanding of history. She says she is proud to be British. I ask her if she is proud of the so-called War on Terror being waged in her name.

"No, I am not proud of that, in the same way that I am not proud of the situation with the Irish, or when we went into the Falklands. Why should we have the right to take over countries and not give them back? We are a very arrogant nation."

And at that, she is off. Her passport has been returned - with security guards clearly concluding that she is a danger only to herself - and her flight is being called. The world beyond a Cheshire village beckons, and she is loving every deluded minute of it.

Osama Bin Laden's daughter in Law

2007-07-15T02:42:00.000+09:00

From The TimesJuly 11, 2007

Briton marries bin Laden’s son

A British woman has married a son of Osama bin Laden after a holiday romance and is to apply for a visa so that he can visit Britain, The Times has learnt.

Jane Felix-Browne, a 51-year-old grandmother and parish councillor from Cheshire, has until now kept her marriage to Omar Ossama bin Laden, 27, secret from everyone apart from her immediate family and close friends. But she has now agreed to speak about her relationship with bin Laden’s fourth eldest son.

“It would be nice if, like any other married woman, I could stand up and say this is my husband and this is his name, but I have to be realistic about things,” she told The Times. “I hope people don’t judge me too harshly. I married the son, not the father.”
Mrs Felix-Browne says she is aware that some people will be hostile to her marriage. Among the numerous terrorist plots linked to her new father-in-law are the London suicide bombings on July 7, 2005, the July 21 plot, and the recent attempted attacks in London and Glasgow. “I just married the man I met and fell in love with – to me he is just Omar,” she said. “I hope that people will take a step back and think what it was like when they fell in love. He is the most beautiful person I have ever met. His heart is pure, he is pious, quiet, a true gentleman, and he is my best friend.”

Mrs Felix-Browne, who has been married five times previously, met Mr bin Laden in Egypt in September while undergoing treatment for multiple sclerosis. She says that their fairytale romance began when her future husband saw her riding a horse near the Great Pyramid. They were married in Islamic ceremonies in Egypt and Saudi Arabia and are awaiting permission from the authorities in Riyadh to make their marriage official.

Mrs Felix-Browne is still coming to terms with the practical difficulties of being the daughter-in-law of a man with a $25 million (£12.5 million) bounty on his head. “Omar is wary of everyone. He is constantly watching people who he feels might be following him. Not without reason he is fearful of cameras. He is the son of Osama,” she said. “But when we are together he forgets his life.”

Mrs Felix-Browne already knew some members of the bin Laden family through her Islamic marriage to a Saudi man in London when she was 16. She believes that she actually met Osama bin Laden at a party in London in the 1970s.

Omar bin Laden left Saudi Arabia as a child when his father was expelled for his extremist beliefs, his wife said. Living in exile in Sudan and then Afghanistan, he saw at first hand the creation of al-Qaeda and its techniques. Mrs Felix-Browne said: “I never had any problem with his past. Omar did not do anything wrong. He was a child when he was in Afghanistan.”

She said that her husband left Afghanistan before the attacks on the US on September 11, 2001. However, some reports claim that he split from his father only after the attack on New York and an argument about tactics.

Mrs Felix-Browne insisted: “He last saw his father in 2000 when they were both in Afghanistan. He left his father because he did not feel it was right to fight or to be in an army. Omar was training to be a soldier and he was only 19.

“He told me he has had no contact with his father since the day he left him. He misses his father. Omar doesn’t know if it was his father who was responsible for the 9/11 attacks. I don’t think we will ever know.”

Apart from their religion the couple appear to have little in common. She has three sons and five grandchildren and is a respected parish councillor in the village of Moulton. She has had various jobs, including restoring houses and aircraft, and is a keen rider and scuba diver.

He works as a scrap metal dealer in Jedda and is one of at least 17 children fathered by bin Laden. His father’s reputation means that he has been ostracised by the wealthy and powerful bin Laden family and is under surveillance by the security services in Saudi Arabia.

Mrs Felix-Browne, who now uses the Islamic name Zaina Mohamad, says that she speaks to her husband for several hours every day over the internet or by telephone. During their conversations she refers to him repeatedly as “Habibi”, the Arabic for “my love”. She said: “I find it very difficult to live without him and I know he does too. But really we have the most normal life possible.”

She was aware before her marriage that her husband already had another wife and a two-year-old child. “I haven’t seen her but I have spoken to her for about an hour on the telephone,” she said. “She is fine about it.”

Mrs Felix-Browne was initially reluctant to discuss her new husband but news of their relationship inevitably began to leak out in Britain and the Middle East. “I don’t want any of my family distressed or upset by my actions,” she said. “I know that for everybody who likes me there will probably be a million enemies.”

Now she hopes that Mr bin Laden will come to Britain. “He would like to spend quite a bit of time here,” she said. “There is no reason why he should not come to live, but I don’t think he would like the weather.”

Mrs Felix-Browne said that the couple hoped to use their position to help to heal the wounds caused by her father-in-law. “All we want is peace in this world and I will do all I can to promote it
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