on Tuesday said that the wife of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was shot in his leg, but not killed. This corrected earlier reports that said he was killed when used as human shields in a shootout that killed bin Laden's.
Other news on Tuesday said that Pakistan's government says a family member of Osama bin Laden is in safe hands and taken care of, with some undergoing medical treatment at a top facility.
"There are questions about the whereabouts of family members of Osama bin Laden," Pakistan foreign ministry said in a statement.
"They're in safe hands and taken care of in accordance with the law. Some of those who need medical care receive the best care at the facility. "
The government says that under the policy, the relatives would be handed over to their home countries.
Foreign Ministry statement did not give the number of relatives who have in their hands or their relationship with Osama. However, a security official told AFP on condition his identity was revealed, that there are 16 family members, all women and children, in the hands of Pakistan.
"They are women and children, no adult males," he said, describing them as Middle Eastern origin, most of the Saudis.
However, he said that because most are still receiving treatment and the others still in shock, their nationality has not been defined precisely. Women are expected to Osama's wife was injured when he was facing U.S. troops and treated at a military facility, the combined military hospital in Abbottabad. She is originally from Yemen.
Osama (53) reportedly has four wives and between 12 and 26 children, according to different sources, according to British newspaper The Guardian.
Amal al-Ahmed hard, his fourth wife, was a Yemeni, who married in Kandahar in the late 1990s. The couple reportedly had a daughter and two sons, born in 2002 and 2003.
Osama Bin Laden comes from a family, which is one of the most prominent family in Saudi Arabia. The Binladin Group, the family construction business, is the largest in the kingdom.
Relationships in large families is complicated because many of them do not recognize bin Laden after his Saudi citizenship revoked in 1994 because of alleged terrorist activity and for criticizing the Al Saud dynasty.
First wife Najwa Ghanem Osama is. Syrian women is the nephew of Osama's mother, who is married to Osama in 1974 when they were aged 17 years and by 15 years.
From Osama's first wife was known to have several sons, including Saad bin Laden, who was born in 1979. Saad bin Laden came in his exile to Sudan in 1991-1996, and then to Afghanistan. Saad who reportedly married a Yemeni woman was believed to be responsible for the bombing of a synagogue Tunisa on April 11, 2002, implicated in suicide bombings on May 12, 2003 in Riyadh, and the bombings in Morocco four days later.
He is believed to still be in Iran, but some say, he was arrested or exiled by the Government of Iran to Afghanistan or Pakistan for allegedly bombing in Qom in 2005.
Osama's boys that much in the news is Omar, the fourth son of Osama and Najwa. Born in 1980, Omar in 2009 published a book called Growing up Bin Laden, which he wrote with his mother.
The book describes his childhood he and his brothers-up to as many as 20 children from several wives, who were raised from the beginning by an authoritarian father, who refused to luxury, including air conditioning and any products that are considered American-made.
Growing up without laughter
Mother and son wrote that the children had grown up in Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Afghanistan without laughter or toys, are routinely beaten, and lost their beloved animals who were killed by poison gas experiments by people of their father.
When they went up, their father asked them to want to do a suicide mission. Omar Osama protested and said, "Your place in my heart no different than men or boys anywhere in the country. That applies to all of my son. "
Omar eventually rejected his father's way of life and leave the training camp in Afghanistan a few months before the September 11 attacks.
Omar divorced his first wife, who gave him a son, after meeting with Jane Felix-Browne, the British woman who has been married six times and 25 years older. Mother of three children had converted to Islam, became Zaina, and the couple married the end of 2006. They separated last year after Omar admitted to a mental hospital with schizophrenia.
Other news on Tuesday said that Pakistan's government says a family member of Osama bin Laden is in safe hands and taken care of, with some undergoing medical treatment at a top facility.
"There are questions about the whereabouts of family members of Osama bin Laden," Pakistan foreign ministry said in a statement.
"They're in safe hands and taken care of in accordance with the law. Some of those who need medical care receive the best care at the facility. "
The government says that under the policy, the relatives would be handed over to their home countries.
Foreign Ministry statement did not give the number of relatives who have in their hands or their relationship with Osama. However, a security official told AFP on condition his identity was revealed, that there are 16 family members, all women and children, in the hands of Pakistan.
"They are women and children, no adult males," he said, describing them as Middle Eastern origin, most of the Saudis.
However, he said that because most are still receiving treatment and the others still in shock, their nationality has not been defined precisely. Women are expected to Osama's wife was injured when he was facing U.S. troops and treated at a military facility, the combined military hospital in Abbottabad. She is originally from Yemen.
Osama (53) reportedly has four wives and between 12 and 26 children, according to different sources, according to British newspaper The Guardian.
Amal al-Ahmed hard, his fourth wife, was a Yemeni, who married in Kandahar in the late 1990s. The couple reportedly had a daughter and two sons, born in 2002 and 2003.
Osama Bin Laden comes from a family, which is one of the most prominent family in Saudi Arabia. The Binladin Group, the family construction business, is the largest in the kingdom.
Relationships in large families is complicated because many of them do not recognize bin Laden after his Saudi citizenship revoked in 1994 because of alleged terrorist activity and for criticizing the Al Saud dynasty.
First wife Najwa Ghanem Osama is. Syrian women is the nephew of Osama's mother, who is married to Osama in 1974 when they were aged 17 years and by 15 years.
From Osama's first wife was known to have several sons, including Saad bin Laden, who was born in 1979. Saad bin Laden came in his exile to Sudan in 1991-1996, and then to Afghanistan. Saad who reportedly married a Yemeni woman was believed to be responsible for the bombing of a synagogue Tunisa on April 11, 2002, implicated in suicide bombings on May 12, 2003 in Riyadh, and the bombings in Morocco four days later.
He is believed to still be in Iran, but some say, he was arrested or exiled by the Government of Iran to Afghanistan or Pakistan for allegedly bombing in Qom in 2005.
Osama's boys that much in the news is Omar, the fourth son of Osama and Najwa. Born in 1980, Omar in 2009 published a book called Growing up Bin Laden, which he wrote with his mother.
The book describes his childhood he and his brothers-up to as many as 20 children from several wives, who were raised from the beginning by an authoritarian father, who refused to luxury, including air conditioning and any products that are considered American-made.
Growing up without laughter
Mother and son wrote that the children had grown up in Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Afghanistan without laughter or toys, are routinely beaten, and lost their beloved animals who were killed by poison gas experiments by people of their father.
When they went up, their father asked them to want to do a suicide mission. Omar Osama protested and said, "Your place in my heart no different than men or boys anywhere in the country. That applies to all of my son. "
Omar eventually rejected his father's way of life and leave the training camp in Afghanistan a few months before the September 11 attacks.
Omar divorced his first wife, who gave him a son, after meeting with Jane Felix-Browne, the British woman who has been married six times and 25 years older. Mother of three children had converted to Islam, became Zaina, and the couple married the end of 2006. They separated last year after Omar admitted to a mental hospital with schizophrenia.
