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Bin Laden's Family Found Shelter in Syria
By Ze'ev Schiff / courtesy of Ha'aretz

Osama bin Laden's closest relatives found sanctuary in Syria after the leader of the Al Qaeda terrorist network was forced to leave Sudan and headed to Afghanistan. According to some reports, bin Laden's family left Syria before the attack last week on New York and the Pentagon in Washington.

Most of bin Laden's extended family is in Saudi Arabia. Not all of them support their relative's actions and some have criticized his ideology in public. The criticism was published after bin Laden was named responsible for the destruction of the two American embassies in East Africa in the late 1990s. After leaving Sudan, bin Laden moved his closest family members to Syria, while he found refuge in Afghanistan.

It's clear that he moved his family to Syria with the approval of the Syrian authorities, achieved, in all likelihood, by means of financial support that he made available to Damascus.
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