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Updated 11:55 p.m. ET: The widows and children of slain al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden were deported from Pakistan early Friday, an Interior Ministry spokesman told NBC News.
Accompanied by a police escort, a mini-bus believed to be carrying them left the house where they had been detained and sped off toward the airport just after midnight, NBC's Amna Nawaz reported from Pakistan.
The government spokesman confirmed to NBC News producer Fakhar Rehman that 14 members of the family had been deported on court orders "to the country of their choice, Saudi Arabia." According to Al-Jazeera TV, the family members arrived in Saudi Arabia, apparently without incident.
A court had charged bin Laden's three widows and two daughters in early April with illegally staying in the country and sentenced them to 45 days in jail.
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They spent 14 days in prison – having been in detention since early March – before deportation to their home countries, including Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
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NBC News learned that a Saudi plane had been waiting to transport the family members from Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto International Airport.
Earlier, The New York Times said court documents named two of the wives as Kharia Hussain Sabir and Siham Sharif, both citizens of Saudi Arabia. The third and the youngest is Amal Ahmad Abdul Fateh, 30, who is from Yemen. She was wounded in the American raid in which bin Laden was killed, it said.
The family was detained by Pakistani authorities following the May 2, 2011 American raid on the compound in Abbottabad that left bin Laden dead.
Courtesy: Zakaria al Sadah
In this photo, taken in Pakistan, Amal and Osama bin Laden's three youngest children (on the right) stand beside three of bin Laden's grandchildren (on the left).
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have issued a bulletin addressing the potential for terrorist attacks to mark the upcoming anniversary of bin Laden's death, according to a report by CBS New York on Thursday.
The bulletin warned of "renewed efforts to target western aviation" and the threat from "lone wolf" terrorists, but said there wasn’t any credible specific threats, the report said.
Meanwhile, an Afghan soldier fatally shot an American service member and a local interpreter in southern Afghanistan, officials said Thursday, the latest in a string of attacks against U.S. and other foreign forces by their Afghan partners.
In the east, three U.S. service members were killed in a bomb attack.
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Osama bin Laden died of kidney failure soon after the September 11, 2001, attacks. In 2002, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said bin Laden had kidney disease, and that he had required a dialysis machine when he lived in Afghanistan. That same year, the FBI’s top counterterrorism official, Dale Watson, said, “I personally think he is probably not with us anymore.”
Are you implying a cover up and fake assault on a target deep inside Pakistan by the president? At the risk of so many american solders for political gain?
This has become another pulpit to blast either Barack Obama or George W. Bush...very nice.
Anyone who believes we should have women and children killed aren't any better than the terrorists...although I really believe anyone who said that is just trolling for a reaction. Few here would actually be brave enough to be the ones to pull the trigger; although many will claim they could...bunch of cowards really
I really do not give a fuzzy rats fanny where they get shipped to as long as it is very, very far from the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!!!
we caught bin laden after he slipped off bush ranch
And Why are they still ALIVE? Cant we get a drone and blow them up and blame it on the Iranians sense they say they have one like ours? LOL Or lets see if we can get their rich Familys back in Sauid Ariba to pay for the war and the cost of hunting down that camel loving S.O.B.? Or let the familys of 9/11 give them a trial and let them punish them.
slightlyold
Mr. Binkie. You are a terrorist. Advocating the killing of children who cannot defend themselves. We do that in the United States...it is called child abuse.
I hope the authorities see your post and contact you.
So slightlyold you ar advocating big brother and to hell with free speech.
he didn't say he was or would kill them . you are the type of person that is a threat to our Constitution
maybe some one should come after you.
We're going to Disney World!
If our govt had EVER been doing its' job we NEVER would've been 'orally pleasuring' Saudi Arabia all this time.They are rag head scum like the rest.Royalty,HAH,any american has more royalty in their pinky.