Osama bin Laden's Yemeni widow to be repatriated: Pak diplomat

DUBAI: Slain al-Qaida chief Osama binLaden's detained relatives, including his 29-year-old Yemeni widow, will berepatriated back to their home countries after their initial interrogations arecompleted, a Pakistani diplomat has said.Bin Laden's Yemeni widow Amal Ahmed Abdul Fattah was with her husband in a bedroom when US special forces stormed the house. She was shot in the leg while attempting to defend her husband and is currently being detained in a hospital in Pakistan."They (bin Laden's relatives) are in safe hands and wheninitial questions are completed, they will be sent to their home countries,"Pakistan's Deputy Ambassador to Yemen Diyar Khan was quoted as saying by theYemen Times newspaper.Fattah is from a Yemeni family living in theAl-Sayyani district of Ibb governorate, 193 km south the capital Sana'a. She wasmarried to bin Laden in 2000 at the age of 18. She was the fifth and youngestwife of bin Laden.The US has also asked Pakistan to provide itaccess to all non combatants, including bin Laden's three wives, detained by thePakistani authorities."We need to work with them (Pakistan) onassessing all the evidence out of that compound and all of the evidenceassociated with Osama bin Laden's presence there for six years. They have intheir custody all the noncombatants from the compound, including three wives ofOsama bin Laden. We've asked for access to those folks," White House NationalSecurity Advisor Tom Donilon has said.