Riyadh, March 24: Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden’s son issued a plea today for some country to accept members of his family seeking to leave Iran, where they have been held under house arrest since 2001.
After two of Omar bin Laden’s siblings were released by Tehran to Syria in the past three months, he and his wife Zaina issued a statement pleading for a refuge for their other family members still in Iran, mentioning specifically Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
“The Iranian government has nowhere to send Omar’s other siblings,” they wrote.
“We beg of any country to help us, either from the east or the western world. These are just as much innocent victims as anyone else,” they said.
“We ask again for the UAE or Qatar to please help them.
–PTI