Pakistan charges Osama Bin Laden's widows

[fd24]

Osama Bin Laden's three widows have been charged by Pakistan with illegally entering the country.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the women, reported to be two Saudis and a Yemeni, had been charged but did not say when the hearing took place.

The wives and about 10 children were taken into custody last May when US commandos raided their safe house.

The three women had been living in the compound in Abbottabad that Navy Seals attacked, killing Bin Laden.

Mr Malik told reporters in Islamabad that "only the adults had been charged" and the children were free to return to their native countries if their mothers agreed.

Legal experts say the maximum term the women could get is five years.

It is not clear if these three women are Bin Laden's only widows - it has been reported that he had up to six wives.

Last June, a Pakistani commission was charged with investigating how the al-Qaeda leader had managed to stay in Pakistan undetected.

The commission said his wives should not be allowed to leave the country until they had been interviewed.

Despite having a $25m (£15m) bounty on his head for his role in organising the 9/11 attacks on the US, Bin Laden managed to live in the Abbottabad compound with his wives and children for nearly five years.

You would think the Interior minister would have greater and more urgent priorities to address than to charge these women. I think its time to move and if this is the only crime they can charge these women with - then its time to let them repatriate to wherever and the children lead "normal lives" if that will ever be possible

 

[Invincible INDIAN]

Thanks!!!

^^^ You have taken my words...

 

[third eye]

Too little too late ?

Did the minister have to wait from May 11 to March 12 to decide this ?

 

[Invincible INDIAN]

Even Rehman Malik claiming that, "They would have arrest OBL if American forces would not have killed him"

 

[Doctor09]

Rehman malik is a clown and he has no credibility

 

[DV RULES]

Taliban Threatens Pakistan with Attacks over Bin Laden Widows


Pakistani Taliban threatens massive government attacks and attacks on government officials if Islamabad does not release the three widows of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, DawnNews TV channel reported on Friday.

According to DawnNews, Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsa contacted journalists of local and Western media and said that “if the family of Osama bin Laden is not released as soon as possible,” they will “attack the judges, lawyers and security officials involved in their trial.”

“We will carry out suicide bombings against security forces and the government across the country,” he said.

Earlier this week Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik said that the three widows of a “number one terrorist” have been charged with illegal stay in the country.

Al-Qaeda leader Bin Laden, who was behind the 9/11 attacks against the United States, was killed in a raid by U.S. Navy Seals on his compound in May 2011. The unauthorized raid by U.S. forces on Pakistan’s territory sparked an angry reaction from Islamabad, which was in turn accused by some U.S. officials and media outlets of harboring the world's most-wanted terrorist, Pakistan has dismissed the allegations.

Taliban Threatens Pakistan with Attacks over Bin Laden Widows | World | RIA Novosti

 

[livingdead]

^^^^ better deport them than chrging them and keeping them in jail.

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Why rehman malik is trying to dig mud in dirttrack? what will he or pakistan benefit from this court case?