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I'm sorry for neglecting you: bin Laden's final message to his 24 children Damien McElroy May 5, 2011 - 12:14PM Osama bin Laden ... urged his offspring not to join al-Qaeda. Photo: Reuters Osama bin Laden apologised to his children for neglecting them in a will written three months after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The al-Qaeda leader also told his offspring not to join al-Qaeda and ordered his wives not to remarry. "You, my children, I apologise for giving you so little of my time because I responded to the need for Jihad," the will states. Advertisement: Story continues below The four-page document, published in a Kuwaiti newspaper, is largely devoted to justifying the terrorist's efforts to destroy America and Israel. There is no mention of possessions. Bin Laden was believed to have inherited an £18 million ($27.6 million) fortune from his father, a construction magnate in Saudi Arabia. The instruction to his 24 children not to fight jihad cites a precedent from the Islamic texts. Omar bin al-Khattab, the successor of the Prophet Muhammad as Islam's leader, also left written instructions to his son, Abdullah, not to wage holy war. Bin Laden's four wives were ordered not to find new husbands and to focus on raising his offspring. "Don't consider marrying again, and devote yourselves to your children and guide them to the right path," the will states. The document is signed: "Your brother Abu Abdullah Osama Muhammad Bin Laden". The newspaper said the will was dated December 14, 2001. Up until that date, US intelligence had been picking up radio transmissions from bin Laden in Tora Bora, the cave complex on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border where he hid to evade a US bombing campaign. The Washington Post reported in 2002 that a version of a will signed on that date had circulated in Arab circles. A statement from al-Qaeda claimed that the document was a fake, but Western intelligence said it was taking the document seriously. La Vanguardia, a Spanish newspaper, reported that bin Laden believed he would be betrayed within his close circle and would enter paradise as a martyr. The Daily Telegraph, London Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/im-sorry-for-neglecting-you-bin-ladens-final-message-to-his-24-children-20110505-1e8tf.html#ixzz1LT64ExvD [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: prole...@egroups.com Subscribe : proletar-subscr...@egroups.com Unsubscribe : proletar-unsubscr...@egroups.com List owner : proletar-ow...@egroups.com Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: proletar-dig...@yahoogroups.com proletar-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: proletar-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
