Qatar TV shows Osama at son’s wedding

Qatar TV shows Osama at son’s wedding
Agencies

DUBAI: Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden has celebrated in Afghanistan the wedding of his son to the daughter of one of his aides, according to Qatar’s Al-Jazeera television which on Wednesday broadcast footage of the ceremony. The footage, which Al-Jazeera said was exclusive to it, showed bin Laden sitting on a carpeted floor in a tent, surrounded by his son, Mohammad, and other men. Al-Jazeera said the Muslim ceremony during which bin Laden often smiled and shook hands with the other unidentified men took place on Tuesday in the southern Afghan town of Kandahar. Bin Laden, a wealthy Saudi dissident believed to be living in Afghanistan, has been accused by the US of masterminding 1998 attacks on two US Embassies in Africa.

A senior Yemeni security official said on Tuesday that a suspect arrested recently had confessed that bin Laden was linked to the apparent suicide bombing last October of the destroyer USS Cole at Aden Port that killed 17 US sailors. The US has named bin Laden as one of the suspects in the bombing. Bin Laden has denied involvement in the attack.