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Elusive al-Qaeda mastermind Osama-bin Laden may have terrorised the world, but his 26-year-old son Omar wants to launch “a movement of peace” and wishes his father will give up violence and find “another way” to pursue his goals.
Omar, who last saw Osama in 2000 when he decided to leave al Qaeda, said he did not think his father was a terrorist and was sure that he must have felt “very sorry” for the September 11 terror attacks.
In interviews to US news channels, Omar, who works as a contractor, however, expressed apprehensions that his father “doesn’t have the power to stop the movement at this moment.”
Omar said he is talking publicly because he wants an end to the violence his father has inspired by launching a movement for peace. “I try and say to my father: ‘Try to find another way to help or find your goal. This bomb, this weapons, it’s not good to use it for anybody,” he told the CNN.
