Yeslin Bin Laden was interviewed by Matt Lauer for NBC Dateline, in July of this year.
Lauer: “Did you immediately suspect that your brother might be involved in this?”
Bin Laden: “Never thought. It’s too sophisticated, I thought, for anybody to imagine something like this.”
But somebody had imagined it. And now Yeslam BinLadin shared a name and a father with the most wanted man on earth.
Lauer: “To many people around the world right now, the name Bin Laden is synonymous with terror.”
Bin Laden: “Uh-huh.”
Lauer: “Does that distress you?”
Bin Laden: “It does because we are well known, and we have been well known before September 11 for being a very well- to-do and proper family.”
Lauer: “And after September 11, you’re well known for a much different reason.”
Bin Laden: “One person is known for a much different reason. And a lot of people amalgamate the whole thing.”
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Yeslam says the last time anyone in his family spoke to Osama was in the early 1990s when he was living in Sudan.
PARIS (Reuters) – A French judge has widened a probe into the financial network surrounding the family of Osama bin Laden after questioning his half-brother and learning of a 241 million euro transfer to Pakistan, Le Monde daily said. Investigating magistrate Renaud Van Ruymbeke received court authorization to extend his investigation after Yeslam bin Laden was questioned on Sept. 27 over allegations of links with the organizers of attacks in 2001 in the United States, the paper said in its Saturday edition.