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Original Post Date: 2011-05-08 Time: 05:00:02 Posted By: Jan
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A Durban family was among those who received a text message from the family of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after his death.
OSAMA BIN LADEN
The message was forwarded to the Sunday Times by one of Bin Laden’s brothers from abroad – on condition that his name, known to the newspaper, be withheld.
In the brief missive to Yousuf Deedat – the son of Durban Islamic propagandist Ahmed Deedat, who died in 2005 – Bin Laden’s brother spoke of the family’s sadness following the US Navy SEALs’ raid before dawn on Monday, Pakistan time, in which Bin Laden was killed.
“It has come as a shock to our family over the loss of our dear brother Osama. Given that there is a lot of publicity, some true and some not, until we ourselves are sure, as a family we have decided not to get involved in any debates or interviews in all media, Arabic included.”
The Bin Laden family’s contact with the Sunday Times was facilitated by Deedat.
The two families have enjoyed close ties since the late ’80s. The brother who wrote the SMS visited Ahmed Deedat in Durban’s Entabeni Hospital a week after he had suffered a stroke in 1996. A video tape allegedly exists of the visit.
Deedat said he hosted a reception in the DLI Hall in Durban in 2009 at which Bin Laden ‘s brother-in-law – the sibling of his Saudi wife, Huda – was a secret guest of honour.
He said that, over the years, the Bin Ladens had pumped $5-million into the Durban Islamic Propagation Centre International (IPCI) in Grey Street. The centre was the headquarters from which the Deedats propagated Islam.
At one point, the building was named after the Bin Ladens.
The IPCI has been a cash cow of the Deedats over the years. Deedat said they returned to South Africa from a trip in 1989 with the equivalent of R18-million, donated by wealthy benefactors in the Middle East.
Deedat has scaled back his association with the IPCI, but has long been a controversial figure.
The Sunday Times reported in September 2001 how he printed anti-Semitic leaflets with a picture of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, posing the question “What if I had won?” The answer below read: “There would be no Israel and no Palestinians’ blood shed. The rest is your guess.”
Two days later, the 9/11 attacks, said by the US to be the work of Bin Laden, occurred. Deedat became an overnight media sensation.
By then, the media were exploring links between the families.
This week, Deedat opened up about those connections and told for the first time how his father’s rhetoric had served as an inspiration to Bin Laden. The text message received by the Sunday Times attests to these claims, revealing just how close the two families are.
In it, Bin Laden’s brother pays tribute to Deedat snr: “I hope you and your family are well. The late sheikh Ahmed Deedat has been an inspiration for us all, and we were humbled by his wisdom.”
Affirming the two families’ bond, the text message concludes with an appeal to Deedat to visit Saudi Arabia, where the Bin Ladens head up the vast Saudi Binladen Group.
Deedat recalled the first time he met Bin Laden and saw how the “freedom fighter” fired up men, young and old, to serve as his soldiers.
Deedat snr gained fame in the Arab world – and notoriety among Christians – for famously confronting television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart in a theological debate on US soil in 1988.
Deedat said it was this clash that “boosted the morale of Arabs” and gave Bin Laden the ammunition he needed to carry out his fight.
“Osama was taken aback by my father,” said Deedat of their first meeting. That was shortly after the Swaggart debate, when father and son went to Saudi Arabia, not for the first time, to drum up support for the IPCI.
On a previous visit, they had met one of Bin Laden’s brothers, Bakr.
The pair were seated in his palatial Jeddah home when they were given a cheque for $1-million, he said.
It was during a subsequent visit to Bakr that they first met Bin Laden, who was then engaged in a CIA-funded war against the Russians in Afghanistan.
Deedat said they saw Bin Laden on later visits, until he fell foul of his government.
“To me, he was killed a martyr,” he said.
Source: http://www.timeslive.co.za/sundaytimes/article1055727.ece/Durban-familys-close-Bin-Laden-connection