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Osama's Video: That's not my dad, says son

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Posted: Sep 26, 2007 at 0000 hrs IST

London, September 26: Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's recently released video, attacking Western leaders and urging Americans to convert to Islam, has been branded as a ‘fake’ by his son in Britain.

"That's not my dad," the News of the World reported on Wednesday, quoting 27-year-old Omar bin Laden as telling his former British wife Jane Felix-Browne.

"Omar is sure the man on the video is an imposter. He has seen it a few times and told me so twice," the 51-year-old granny told the British tabloid.

"Omar remembers the first video his dad did shortly after the 9/11 attacks. But he says in this latest one, Osama's beard is shorter and darker, his face isn't the same shape -- it's rounder -- and his eyes are clearly a different shape too. He doesn't think his dad has had a make-over. He's sure it's not him," Felix-Browne said.

But she claimed that Omar, who has not seen his dad for eight years, still ‘believes he is alive and hopes to meet him one day’.

"Osama may be the world's most wanted man, but Omar told me: 'I love my dad like any son and I miss him dreadfully'".

Felix-Browne, who had married Osama's fourth son last year, recently split up, fearing they would be killed by fanatics in Saudi Arabia because she's British.

"We got divorced on September 15. Ironically, it was also our first wedding anniversary. But the divorce was completely against our wishes," she had said recently.

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