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(LWJ) — The US raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden also resulted in the death of his wife and son, US officials said during a White House press briefing today.
Khalid bin Laden, one of Osama’s younger sons, and Amal al Sadah, were among those killed yesterday during the daring raid by US Navy Seals from SEAL Team 6 and CIA operatives on a fortified mansion in an upscale area of Abbottabad in Pakistan, according to John Brennan, President Barack Obama’s top counter terrorism adviser. Two of bin Laden’s couriers, who have not been named, are also reported to have been killed during the raid.
Little is known about Khalid, who was in his early 20s. He is believed to have been with his father in Afghanistan during the US invasion in late 2001. In January 2010, Khalid issued a letter calling on Iran to release more than 30 of his family members who were under protective custody in Iran. Khalid claimed his family members were “beaten and repressed,” USA Today reported in March 2010.
Last summer, Osama’s family and scores of other top al Qaeda leaders, including Saif al Adel, Suliaman Abu Gaith, Abu Hafs al Mauritani, and Sa’ad bin Laden left Iran and were reported to have rejoined the terror network in Pakistan.
Amal al Ahmed Sadah was Osama’s fourth wife. They were married in the late 1990s in Afghanistan when she was 17 years old. Sadah was from Yemen, and she is thought to have returned to her home country sometime after the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, according to The New Yorker. It is unclear when Sadah returned to South Asia to be at Osama’s side.
