Bin Laden's Son Deported From Egypt

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CAIRO: Osama bin Laden's son Omar was deported from Egypt on Sunday after returning from a failed bid for political asylum in Spain, his English-born wife Zaina Alsabah bin Laden said.

The couple were not allowed to enter Egypt on their return from Spain which on Saturday turned down the 27-year-old's request for political asylum after he said his life was in danger in the Middle East because he is a pacifist.

"The Spanish government said that Omar was safe in Egypt and so had a place to go, but when we arrived in Egypt they deported us," Zaina said by telephone from a passenger plane on Cairo airport's tarmac.

She declined to say where they were heading as it might jeopardise their chances of being able to clear immigration at their destination. "We're not feeling very good, seeing that everything we have is in Egypt and we can't get anything, can't get (credit) cards, we just have cash."

Omar, one of the 19 children of the fugitive founder of the Al-Qaeda, had appealed against Spain's refusal on Wednesday to grant him asylum, which he asked for shortly after arriving in Madrid on a flight from Cairo.




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