Iman Bin Laden, the daughter of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, has sought refuge in the Saudi Embassy in Iran after succeeding in escaping Iranian guards watching over her. Iman disclosed in a telephone call to her brother Abdullah who lives in Syria that she and five of her brothers and sisters have been detained by the Iranian authorities since the US invasion of Afghanistan at the end of 2001. They are: Saad who is now 30 years old, Othman 25, Fatima 22, Hamzah 20, Iman 17, and Bakr 15.”
The 29 year old Omar Bin Laden who lives in Qatar told Asharq Al-Awsat that the Bin Laden family of his first wife Najwa, a Syrian living in Damascus, did not know that her daughter Iman and her other brothers and sisters had been alive all these past years until she contacted her family one month ago. He added : There are five in Saudi Arabia and three in Syria. Source: Asharq Al-Awsat