Osama Bin Laden’s son now an intern at World Trade Centre

One of the 24 children of the late Osama Bin Laden is now ironically an intern at the World Trade Centre- a building his father is accused of being the masterminder behind the infamous September 11, 2001 incident which saw two planes crashing into the twin buildings.

17-year-old James al-Sadah, formerly known as Omar Hassan bin Laden and son to Ossama bin Laden’s youngest known wife, Amal Ahmed al-Sadah, is presently an intern at SecurTek, a Riyadh-based software security agency owned by his uncle, Muhammad Ibn al-Sadh.

“My mother was forced by her father to marry Bin Laden in 2000, but she soon fled from Yemen while she was pregnant with me, she was a fighter and still is,” he admits proudly.

“My father was already dead in 2001, so all that news about him being killed in 2011 is just CIA propaganda. He had to be constantly plugged to a dialysis machine in a top Dubai hospital months before he succumbed to kidney failure,” his mother has always told him.

James al-Sadh remembers how his mother always despised his father who was captured and executed five years ago.

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“It is the ultimate offense that she changed my last name from bin Laden to al-Sadh, it shows how much she hated and despised the old man,” he recounts. “When we immigrated to the U.S. years later, never did she mention his name ever again,” he told reporters. “She was born in 1982 and was forced to marry him at 18. I’m glad she took the risk of taking us away from Yemen and bringing us to America. Even today, many of her family members will not talk to her because of what she did” he admits, visibly saddened by the whole affair.

Even though the young man never met his father, he claims he has no regrets of ever meeting him.

“I never met my father and have never had any desire of doing so, but my mother always told me he had died in 2001 anyways, months before I was born, so there was never any chance I could have met him anyways,” he acknowledges.

“My father was already dead in 2001, so all that news about him being killed in 2011 is just CIA propaganda. He had to be constantly plugged to a dialysis machine in a top Dubai hospital months before he succumbed to kidney failure,” his mother has always told him.” He said.

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