ONE OF OSAMA bin Laden’s sons claims he was invited to the White House by George W Bush in January 2009 in order for him to help the US authorities track down his father.
Omar bin Laden, 29, told the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia: “They invited me to accompany them to the White House, offered to defend, help and protect me, on the condition that I helped them find my father”.
Although Omar admitted that he has had no contact with his father for almost a decade, he refused the alleged request: “I told them I was sorry but it wasn’t something I could do. He is my father and I am his son, and as is the way the son must love and respect his father – even if in many cases a man may be against the ideas of his father.”
Omar has said that he denounced violence and left his father’s compound in Afghanistan before the 11 September attacks. He married a British woman in 2007 but the couple have since separated, reports the Telegraph.
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