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YEMENI SHEIK TELLS HOW HE FOUND HIS WIFE 11 May , 14:54
(ANSAmed) - ROME, MAY 11 - A Yemeni Sheikh with links to Al Qaeda, Rashad Mohammed Said Ismael, has told the British daily the Guardian about how in 1999 he found a wife for Osama Bin Laden. At the time, Osama asked Said to find him a wife and the sheikh found Amal Ahmed Al-Sadah in Yemen who
was 17 years old at the time. Her family was paid 5,000 dollars and the wedding took place in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 2000. Today the 29-year-old Amal is being held in custody in Pakistan after the raid in Abbottabad. Rashad told about how in 1999 Bin Laden (even at the time one of the world's most wanted men) called from Afghanistan, asking him to find him a girl to marry. In Osama's words, his fifth wife had to be ''devoutly religious, obedient, young (preferably between the ages of 16 and 18), well-mannered, from a good family, and above all patient. She must put up with my exceptional situation.''. Rashad found the right girl in 17-year-old Amal Ahmed Al-Sadad, daughter of a state employee and his former student.
The sheikh went to the girl's house and proposed the marriage, explaining to her all the inconveniences which could have resulted for her from living with a man being hunted. In any case, she agreed and
her family received 5,000 dollars from the terrorist. Amal, her older brother and the sheikh then left for Pakistan, from which Bin Laden took her to Afghanistan. The wedding was held in Kandahar in Yemeni style. Amal gave Osama a daughter and over the past few years had been living in the Abbottabad house along with the Al Qaeda leader's two Saudi wives. In the raid by the Navy Seals she suffered an injury to her leg. Rashad would now like to bring her back to Yemen. (ANSAmed).
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