Bin Laden's son wants a UK visa

[Grumpmeister]

I'm not sure what to make of this, on the one hand if he is telling the truth then the poor bugger is going to be penalised because of his family but at the same time I'm not sure I'd want to take the chance of letting him in.

One of Osama Bin Laden's sons is to mount a legal challenge after being refused entry to live in the UK with his 52-year-old British wife.

Omar Osama Bin Laden, 27, was told his visa application had been rejected because of newspaper suggestions he could still be loyal to his father.

He currently lives in Cairo, Egypt with wife Zaina Alsabah-Bin Laden, formerly named Jane Felix-Browne, from Cheshire. Mr Bin Laden, one of 19 siblings, has publicly condemned terrorism.

The couple hoped to move to Mrs Bin Laden's home in the village of Moulton, near Northwich in Cheshire, where she was a member of the parish council until recently.

Mrs Bin Laden, who is severely visually impaired, said she needed access to medical treatment in the UK but refused to be apart from her husband.

'Three chances'

Speaking from Cairo, she said: "It is a lovely place and we have a really nice home, the problem is it's not 'home'.

"Home is where you have family and my home is in England... we are happy here but it's not what we want."

She added: "He has not been banned from coming, he has got three chances to appeal, he has two chances through an appeal judge and one through the European Court of Human Rights."

The couple said the application was finally turned down earlier this month after a six-month wait after an Entry Clearance Officer (ECO) judged that it might not be "conducive to the public good".

It is thought the official was referring to comments made by Mr Bin Laden that he could not prove 100% that his father - whom he says he has not seen since he was 19 - was responsible for September 11 or the London bombings.

Mrs Bin Laden said his comments on proof simply referred to the fact that he had no direct evidence of his father's involvement.

She insisted her husband had been able to visit other European countries freely.

During the most recent trip they parted briefly so she could enter Britain alone to visit a doctor.

"Refusal decisions in such cases are not normally based on evidence obtained from newspaper articles and reports," a statement drafted by the couple's lawyer, Amjad Malik, said.

"In fact they must be made on accurate facts, rules of immigration and the law of the land.

"However the reasoning given in the decision by the ECO on April 17 2008 is not just and is arbitrary.

"(It) seems that an individual's rights have been overridden by newspaper articles and his biological relation relationship to his father."

[Nick]

He could get one of his dad's mates to fly him here

[Uncle Mort]

I'm not one to visit the sins of the father upon him and this:

(he) was told his visa application had been rejected because of newspaper suggestions he could still be loyal to his father   

just annoys me.

Let him in. 

[Nick]

HIs "new" missus lives near me!

I say NO

[Snoopy]

If you don't want your house broken into live next door to a burglar. A similar principle may well apply here 

[Nick]

 

[Uncle Mort]

HIs "new" missus lives near me!

I say NO

NIMBY 

[Grumpmeister]

I'm not one to visit the sins of the father upon him and this:

(he) was told his visa application had been rejected because of newspaper suggestions he could still be loyal to his father   

just annoys me.

Let him in. 

I dont think its anything to do with the newspaper coverage though, this has to play a large part given that his father took credit for the attack.

The couple said the application was finally turned down earlier this month after a six-month wait after an Entry Clearance Officer (ECO) judged that it might not be "conducive to the public good".

It is thought the official was referring to comments made by Mr Bin Laden that he could not prove 100% that his father - whom he says he has not seen since he was 19 - was responsible for September 11 or the London bombings.

[Snoopy]

As I see it ~If his son and perhaps grandchildren are here we can keep an eye on them and he is unlikely to bomb them.

[Uncle Mort]

Mr Bin Laden that he could not prove 100% that his father - whom he says he has not seen since he was 19 - was responsible for September 11 or the London bombings

I never met Osama, I cannot prove 100% he's responsible either. It's not as he he's been tried and found guilty.

 

[Nick]

I had in my kitchen once. Seemed like a nice chap.Ate a hob nob. The he blew it all up.He's not coming here again

[Bar Wench]

I'm suprised you don't have to have background checks done on the people who enter your listed home!

Wasn't there a programme on these two recently? She was very much a freak if I recall. 

[Nick]

That was on the Tatto Channel. Our TV is in a box.

Quite possibly. She is 87 and he is 21 (or something like that)

It's lurve apparently. Or he wants to live in Chester

[Bar Wench]

TV is still in the box!?!? 

[Snoopy]

I'm suprised you don't have to have background checks done on the people who enter your listed home!

Wasn't there a programme on these two recently? She was very much a freak if I recall. 

I've been vetted!