As contracosta.com says, she’s not the model niece Osama bin Laden’s looking for - but she is a model.
And as reuters says, her uncle may be the world’s most elusive fugitive, but his niece is about as conspicuous as she can be…
The leggy Wafah Dufour, Osama bin Laden�s niece, appears scantily clad in January edition of GQ Magazine for an article entitled “It Isn’t Easy Being the Sexy Bin Laden”. Apart from the picture above, she also poses in a bubble bath wearing nothing but jewellery.
Says she has nothing in common with the al-Qaida leader and simply wants acceptance by Americans. Neither has she ever met her infamous uncle.
She is the daughter of bin Laden�s half brother, Yeslam Binladin.
She’s totally Americanised. She’s born in California, a musician and law school graduate who lives in New York, and can’t speak Arabic. She earned a master’s degree in law from Columbia University,
She adopted her mother�s maiden name after the 9-11 attacks.
The pictures are likely to be considered obscene by conservative Muslims in and outside of Saudi Arabia where women are required to be veiled.
Asked if she would like to perform her music in the Middle East, Dufour says her mother, Carmen Dufour, would be too afraid that �someone would want to kill me.� Her mum wrote the 2004 best-seller “Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia,” an account of her rocky marriage to Yeslam, Osama’s half-brother, who amassed a fortune in the family’s construction business and started his own investment firm.
Wafah’s parents both studied at the University of Southern California,
Yeslam and Osama are among 54 children of the late Saudi construction magnate Mohammed bin Laden and his 22 wives. The extended family includes several hundred people.
Binladin, who received Swiss citizenship in 2001, has condemned his half brother �for his acts and his convictions.� He intentionally spells his name differently from his half brother.
Wafah Dufour says she would not date a fundamentalist Muslim and that she cried hysterically when she witnessed the attacks on New York while staying with her mother in Geneva. She spent six months in seclusion there before moving to London, where she says she was hounded by the media and criticised any time she was visible on the social scene.
She has a U.S. passport.
She has only spoken to her estranged father twice in the past 10 years.
Asked how he would react to her posing for racy pictures in a glossy magazine, she said, “I think he would have a heart attack.”
I think any self-respecting member of the bin Laden clan would too.
