This adds to the sentiment expressed last May in what a Kuwaiti newspaper published as bin Laden’s will.
In it, bin Laden apologized to his children for his absence in their lives, “You, my children, I apologize for giving you so little of my time because I responded to the need for jihad,” he wrote.
He also instructed his offspring not to join al-Qaeda and used precedents from Islamic texts as justification for forbidding his children to engage in “holy warfare.”Besides the stunning hypocrisy, I find it interesting that up to the moment of this posting, I can find reference to the story in foreign (mostly British newspapers) and even Al-Arabiya, but very little play in US news outlets, other than Yahoo and Fox News.
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