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George W Bush 'invited son of Osama bin Laden to White House'

The son of Osama bin Laden has claimed he was invited to the White House in the final days of George W Bush's presidency in a last-ditch attempt to discover the whereabouts of the world's most wanted terrorist.

Omar bin Laden, the fourth son of the al-Qaeda leader, claims he received a visit from White House staff in January 2009 at his home in Doha, the capital of Qatar.

But the son who was once groomed to take over from bin Laden later admitted that he had had no contact with his father for almost a decade.

The younger Bin Laden claims to have renounced violence and walked away from his father's compound in the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan, months before the attacks on September 11, 2001....

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)