TOsama bin Laden’s youngest son said he is ashamed and horrified by his father’s actions on September 11, 2001.
“I found it hard to believe that I had the ability to organize something like that. That day changed our lives forever and it was very difficult to continue living afterwards,” Omar bin Laden, 40, said in an interview last week. past. with the Jewish News Syndicate.
He said he only felt “shame and horror” at his father’s actions.
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The 40-year-old artist, who lives in Normandy, France, said he was in line to take his father’s place as al-Qaeda leader, but could not.
FILE: The photo in this January 11, 2008 file shows Omar bin Laden during an interview with the Associated Press in Cairo, Egypt. Two weeks ago, Omar, son of Osama bin Laden, revealed that many of the children who had been with their father in Afghanistan escaped to Iran after the U.S.-led invasion in 2001 and were still together. in a walled enclosure under Iranian guard. (AP Photo / Nasser Nasser, File) ** zu unserem KORR ** Nasser Nasser / ASSOCIATED PRESS
“During these years of loss and pain, I was forced to accept the truth about my father,” he said.
Bin Laden said he would also like the opportunity to visit Israel and the United States.
“I know it’s a beautiful country and a lot of people in it want peace with the Palestinians,” he said of the former.
Omar bin Laden has a Jewish heritage from Israel on his maternal side and has been offered opportunities to lecture on peace at the country’s universities, according to the interview.
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“I know that since 1948, Palestinians have lived alongside the Jewish nation,” he said. “We believe that the world needs to live as one and that the neighbors of all religions can live together in peace.”
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Original author: Luke Gentile
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