Omar bin Laden seeks visa to live in the UK, become a “peace activist”
posted at 11:05 am on January 17, 2008 by Bryan
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I’m sure nothing can go wrong here.
British Embassy officials in Cairo have interviewed Omar bin Laden who plans to settle down with his 52-year-old wife Jane Felix-Browne at her home in Cheshire, have a child through a surrogate mother and work as “peace activists”, the Daily Mail reported in London on Sunday.
The son of the world’s most wanted man and five-time divorcee Jane, now Zaina Al Sabah bin Laden, have given the British Embassy in Cairo – where they are currently living – access to their bank accounts to allow checks on authenticity of their relationship. Omar has recently divorced his first wife, the mother of his two-year-old son, to prove that his marriage to Jane is nothing but “genuine”.
Can’t you feel the love!
A story about the blushing grandma bride from last summer contains this wholly unsurprising passage.
She had met his fourth son, Omar, on a riding holiday in Egypt and fallen madly in love. The fact that his father was the most notorious terrorist the world has ever known was never something that was going to stand in Jane’s way.
It seems it’s not even an issue that was discussed at length before the marriage ceremony.
Today, she is taking family loyalty to a somewhat improbable level, insisting again that the Bin Laden patriarch might just be innocent. With a jaw-dropping combination of stupidity and naivety, she says in her best school ma’am voice, when I raise the question of the Twin Towers: “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.”
Yup, I’m sure the UK will grant that visa asap.
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Best wishes to the happy couple. Say, is that a beer Mr. bin Laden is drinking?
pistolero on January 17, 2008 at 11:09 AM
It seems all the bin Laden’s are class acts.
BKennedy on January 17, 2008 at 11:12 AM
Stockholm Syndrome?
amkun on January 17, 2008 at 11:13 AM
In the good ole’days we grabthat freak and waterboard him till he told us where his father is.
HotAirExpert on January 17, 2008 at 11:13 AM
Damn straight that they would grant him a vist. Hell, if Osama applied, they’d grant him one for the sake of “religious diversity”
Oh, how far you have fallen, England…
Tim Burton on January 17, 2008 at 11:13 AM
52? Is that her in the pic? Nice.
5-time divorcee? Guess he’ll get his virgins later.
ej_pez on January 17, 2008 at 11:16 AM
Besides the fact he claims responsibility?
amerpundit on January 17, 2008 at 11:18 AM
I wonder what color burkha Osama wore to the wedding?
pistolero on January 17, 2008 at 11:21 AM
five-time divorcee Jane
Wow.
benrand on January 17, 2008 at 11:21 AM
Only the English would be silly enough to take this #@!*& at his word and let him into the country.
thejackal on January 17, 2008 at 11:22 AM
I’m sure Londonistan will expedite this request, chop chop.
Kid from Brooklyn on January 17, 2008 at 11:22 AM
I hope you made that statement without irony, because I’m sure they will allow him in, in their final act signaling the end of Britain.
PattyJ on January 17, 2008 at 11:24 AM
In the photo in the Daily Mail article, it looks like they both are holding bottles of beer. Cheers, Mr. and Mrs. bin Laden!
As a historical note, young Mr. bin Laden would not be the first person living in the UK who had a notoriously evil relative.
Bigfoot on January 17, 2008 at 11:25 AM
I am going to play devil’s advocate. Say you are the son of bin laden but you don’t want to live the Muslim fanatic lifestyle. Then what awaits you is death as an apostate. So you do whatever it takes to survive and if that includes schtupping a 52 year old airhead from Britain in order to minimize your chances of being beheaded, then you do it.
So I am going to give this guy a break. He is just trying to survive and life has dealt him a pretty bad hand.
Bill C on January 17, 2008 at 11:28 AM
1st red flag: he gave up his son to get the visa.
2nd red flag: he is going to “settle down in Cheshire?”
3rd red flag: he intends to use a surrogate mother?
Are red flags 1 & 3 things that normal, orthodox, Middle Eastern Muslims do? Their Cheshire neighbors will love them. Ms. Jane seems to have a mental virus that might prevent her reentrance to the UK anyway.
Who takes a “riding holiday” in Egypt?
Numenorean on January 17, 2008 at 11:29 AM
That was my first thought, too. I know Bin Laden’s niece lives in the U.S..
But then I got to this:
Today, she is taking family loyalty to a somewhat improbable level, insisting again that the Bin Laden patriarch might just be innocent. With a jaw-dropping combination of stupidity and naivety, she says in her best school ma’am voice, when I raise the question of the Twin Towers: “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.”
amerpundit on January 17, 2008 at 11:30 AM
OK, more evidence for my theory of how Islam appeals to warped Western women. They are wildly out of control, so they embrace Islam or Islamic men.
Just like Britney, Princess Diana and her Pakistani “soulmate,” Obama’s mom, any other examples?
funky chicken on January 17, 2008 at 11:35 AM
Wow. She’s twice his age.
funky chicken on January 17, 2008 at 11:36 AM
“Great googly moogly!!!! …..what’s a good girl like you doing in a place like this…..whadyahsay we go over to my place & I jus’sorta tie you to…..”
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-TItmXT8DkM
lobosan5 on January 17, 2008 at 11:37 AM
Bin Laden’s boy is gonna feel foolish when he realizes he could have got a Britany Spears.
BL@KBIRD on January 17, 2008 at 11:48 AM
She’s 52 and divorced 5 times? Sound like a career that the UK Embassy needs to investigate.
Texas Gal on January 17, 2008 at 11:49 AM
I guess Daddy can’t put him up.
Not a lot of extra living space in that one bedroom, no bath cave overlooking ….. rocks.
fogw on January 17, 2008 at 11:54 AM
Religion of peace…..
Peace activist……..
Immigration to Londonistan…..
Move along. Nothing to see here……
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on January 17, 2008 at 11:55 AM
Daddy O must be proud.
Frozen Tex on January 17, 2008 at 11:55 AM
And no, I don’t believe those are beers they’re holding; they look like 7-Up bottles.
Frozen Tex on January 17, 2008 at 11:56 AM
loveA billion dollars does funny things to one’s memory…and being immoral to begin with can’t help.shooter on January 17, 2008 at 11:57 AM
Must be for the weather, as England will soon be suitably Sharia-fied.
Frozen Tex on January 17, 2008 at 11:58 AM
Overall, she sounds like a real whackadoo.
Again, Osama must be proud.
Frozen Tex on January 17, 2008 at 12:05 PM
If she really loves him, she won’t mind spending the rest of her married life living in Egypt. If he really loves her, he won’t mind not being granted a visa and will live with her in Egypt close to his son.
Blake on January 17, 2008 at 12:15 PM
Spreading peace the Islamic way…..one bomb at a time.
Hening on January 17, 2008 at 12:18 PM
Wow. I thought that was Julian from the “Trailer Park Boys.”
exlibris on January 17, 2008 at 12:23 PM
At least the teddybear teacher has had the good sense (as far as I know) to keep her mouth shut. I was afraid that she would go on and on about how wonderful islam is/was.
Blake on January 17, 2008 at 12:25 PM
The Bushes have the strangest friends.
saved on January 17, 2008 at 12:28 PM
Any way you cut it, the poor guy has some distasteful duty to handle every night. He must really, really want that visa.
a capella on January 17, 2008 at 12:28 PM
Frozen, you are right. 7-Up it is (at least for her, I can’t see enough of his, but its a reasonable assumption) See, Arabic 7-Up pic.
infidel2 on January 17, 2008 at 12:36 PM
I’m sure she has a nice personality.
Zorro on January 17, 2008 at 1:23 PM
Oh well. Shows you what a xenophobe I am. I can’t even identify an arabic 7-up bottle. Plus, I thought they all drank MeccaCola.
pistolero on January 17, 2008 at 1:32 PM
I don’t think I would be allowed to say what I think about this here.
HaraldHardrada on January 17, 2008 at 1:53 PM
I guess he is into higher mileage vehicles.
She aint bad but didn’t he check the blue book?
TheSitRep on January 17, 2008 at 2:04 PM
The photo says, “Before the Burkah” but I think she’s had a “burkah brain” her whole life.
srhoades on January 17, 2008 at 2:20 PM
You gotta love this life…you could not make this up.
This is a great setting for a sit-com, who needs Hollywood writers?
right2bright on January 17, 2008 at 2:39 PM
She has to cop to Islam and they want to live in England?
Why?
Why not stay in Afghanistan?
How about Waziristan?
drjohn on January 17, 2008 at 2:45 PM
Other than Osama saying he did it aleast half a dozen times, I`m sorry to say I can`t prvoe he did it.
Poor woman.
ThePrez on January 17, 2008 at 3:23 PM
No offense intended. I totally missed it until I saw your post, but wanted to check it out. It would have been great if it was a beer.
infidel2 on January 17, 2008 at 3:58 PM
Hasn’t his father also proclaimed himself to be an agent of peace? Also, Aberdinajad? And for that matter, Arafat? And for that matter, Castro, Hitler, and every deranged killer that has ever occupied official office? To me, it’s hard to know what that really means in the Islamic faith. Maybe I’m being too hard on the guy, but if I were the U.K., I’d say “no way – you’ll just bring trouble, even if you don’t mean to.”
Wise Golden on January 17, 2008 at 4:55 PM
The apple never falls far from the tree.
labrat on January 17, 2008 at 5:04 PM
LOL!!
labrat on January 17, 2008 at 5:14 PM
Yet another reason for Daddi-O to be proud (check out that hair!).
Frozen Tex on January 17, 2008 at 6:51 PM
Have the English every seen how the Taliban play polo on camels?
They gallivant across the desert hitting the head of a pig with their rifle butts.
Their version of football is to carry a slaughtered sheep around like a football trying to get it across the goal line (the door of their hut) without becoming decapitated by the other players wielding scimitars trying to cause the owner to fumble the ball (sheep) so they can steal it for themselves.
Now that sounds civilized to me.
MSGTAS on January 18, 2008 at 9:13 AM