Al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden is believed to have had 20 children by five wives.(Photo: European Pressphoto Agency)
Osama bin Laden was desperate to see his third wife, missed her terribly and was obsessed with whether a tiny<span style="color: Red;">*</span>tracking device<span style="color: Red;">*</span>was secretly implanted in her so the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>world could find the 9/11 mastermind, according to new documents<span style="color: Red;">*</span>released Tuesday.
Personal letters from bin Laden to his family were among more than 100 documents seized in May 2011 when bin Laden was killed<span style="color: Red;">*</span>during the U.S. military raid on his<span style="color: Red;">*</span>compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The documents were released by the Office of the Director of<span style="color: Red;">*</span>National Intelligence.
The terrorist leader<span style="color: Red;">*</span>is believed to have had 20 children by five wives. Three of his wives<span style="color: Red;">*</span>were with him when he was killed.
Two of those women joined him during the last year or so before his death. Among the documents released Tuesday are what appear to be letters to one of those two women, Khairiah Sabar, a former teacher of deaf children in Saudi Arabia who had been under house arrest in Iran.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The letters from her husband were written after she was released by the Iranians and before she reunited with him.
Bin Laden warned Khairiah, who was eight years older than<span style="color: Red;">*</span>her<span style="color: Red;">*</span>husband,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>that spies could plant a tracking device in the tooth filling she received from a dentist in Iran.<span style="color: Red;">*</span><span style="color: Red;">*</span>"We ... horribly fear the filling you were given," he wrote.
He also cautioned that during any medical procedure she might be injected with a surveillance device. "They can insert a small chip in it (a syringe)<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to implant under the skin. The size of the chip is about the length of a grain of wheat," he wrote.
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He stressed these concerns repeatedly.
"In terms of caution, I ask you to report to me in detail anything you find suspicious from any doctor in Iran, like if the syringe is the usual volume and its head has a slightly larger diameter than normal," bin Laden wrote. "They can, as I told you before, put a small SIM card to plant it under the skin."
The letters to his wife, which appear to have been written a year or two before his death in 2011, say how much he missed her<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and wanted to see her.
"Please trust me that I am working very hard to live with you," bin Laden wrote. She would later join him in Abbottabad and be there during the raid.
"I have received the great news of your release from the Iranians, thank God," he wrote.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>He asked about their son Hamza, his children and his new wife. "I am delighted to hear about his marriage."
The U.S. military initially reported that Hamza was killed in the raid, but he<span style="color: Red;">*</span>actually escaped and is now<span style="color: Red;">*</span>suspected of working with al-Qaeda.
"I have been living for years in the company of some brothers from the area and they are exhausted —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>security-wise —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>from me staying with them and what results from that," bin Laden<span style="color: Red;">*</span>wrote. "Consequently, it is hard for them to do some of the things I ask them to."
Bin Laden said<span style="color: Red;">*</span>his protectors, including Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, his most trusted courier, initially balked at allowing more family into the compound.
"If I am not able to secure your return in the next weeks, I will come to visit you, God willing," bin Laden wrote to his wife, adding that he might "change the people who accompany me," to make the reunion with her happen.
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