Osama son weds British grandmother

Both newspapers have said Felix-Browne, who also uses the name Zaina Mohamad, is a parish councillor, with three children and five grandchildren. This is her sixth marriage.

“Mrs Felix-Brown is married to the gentleman concerned,” said Elaine Beech, a clerk for the Moulton Parish Council.

Felix-Browne told the newspapers that she met Omar bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader’s fourth son, while riding a horse near the Great Pyramid, in Giza, Egypt. She had been in the country to undergo medical treatment for multiple sclerosis, she said.

“I just married the man I fell in love with—to me he is just Omar,” she is quoted as saying by The Times.

The couple have held Islamic marriage ceremonies in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Felix-Browne said. She added that her husband, a scrap dealer living in Saudi Arabia, had lived with his father in Afghanistan as a child but had left the country before the 9/11 attacks.

“He last saw his father in 2000 when they were both in Afghanistan,” she said. “He left his father because he did not feel it was right to fight. Omar was training to be a soldier when he was only 19.”

Felix-Browne said she has become Omar bin Laden’s second wife, and is hoping to arrange a visa for her new husband to visit Britain, but acknowledged it would be difficult.

“Because my husband’s name is bin Laden he finds it very difficult to travel anywhere,” she told The Sun.