Last summer I wrote about the British grandmother who married Osama bin Laden’s son, Omar. At the time of their marriage, the 52-year-old new Mrs. bin Laden defended the father of her 26-year-old sixth husband.
“I mean, do you know - beyond all doubt – that he did it? If so, I’d like you to show me the evidence. I don’t think it’s nice to make assumptions about someone when you don’t know the facts,” she said.
She also planned to move to Egypt to set up housekeeping down the road from her new husband and his other, first, wife.
“I’d set up another home nearby, and he would come and go between the two,” she said. “It is quite normal, really. I don’t mind at all – why should I? I’m not jealous of his wife. I have spoken to her. Lots of married men in this country have girlfriends. At least he is being honest.”
Things have changed a little bit since then. She’s still in Britain and her husband is wanting to move to Britain. The problem is that the British government is not quite as understanding as she is about the other wife.
Unfortunately for bin Laden’s first wife, British immigration officials care less about “honesty” than polygamy and are requiring proof bin Laden has obtained a divorce in Saudi Arabia before allowing him to move to Felix-Brown’s $1.1 million home in Moulton, Cheshire, in Britain’s rural northwest.
And bin Laden’s powerful Saudi family isn’t all that thrilled with this marriage. According to Mrs. bin Laden, all she and her husband want is peace and they want to be activist for peace. Unfortunately, other people are not at all happy with their association and their lives are threatened when they try to participate in peace rallies.
They are getting it from both sides. If they try to participate in a peace event, then al-Qaeda threatens to blow up the event.
The couple – who met while riding horses near Egypt’s pyramids – are planning a 3,000 mile horse ride across North Africa from Cairo to Morocco to defy the terrorists operating in the area and to support “peace.”
Although the annual Dakar Rally car and motorcycle race from Lisbon, Portugal, to Senagal was canceled earlier this month after threats of attacks by al-Qaida-affiliated groups, the young bin Laden said the couple would not be deterred from their ride for peace.
“Associates of my father forced the cancellation of the Dakar Rally, but they won’t stop me from riding,” he said. “We want people to join us on the trek – Jews, Arabs, Christians, Muslims, it doesn’t matter where people are from.”
And from Mrs. bin Laden’s new inlaws.
The pair has already been threatened by the wealthy and influential bin Laden family who were reportedly humiliated by the marriage – so much so, Felix-Browne announced their plans to divorce last September.
“We are both in fear of our lives,” she told the Sun.
So they have the British government wanting him to divorce his first wife before they will acknowledge this marriage, they have terrorist groups threatening any peace rally they want to participate and the bin Laden family threatening vengeance if they continue with this nonsensical marriage. It sounds like they have a few things interfering with happily ever after. Not to mention the fact that the new Mrs. bin Laden has a history of multiple marriages which indicates she might have some commitment issues of her own.
Shockingly, Mrs. bin Laden is saying that the marriage might not make it.
“It was a really, really good marriage, a strong marriage. But I cannot stand by and watch my beloved husband die before my very eyes,” she said. “I love him enough to let him go. I want him and his son, who is just three, to return to as normal a life as possible.
Yeah, okay. And I’m sure it has nothing to do with you wanting to return to your million dollar English manor and getting on with your life without having to deal with the realities of a world at war.
What a silly woman!