Bin Laden’s Daughter Allowed to Leave Iran

By ROBERT MACKEY

Osama bin Laden’s teenage daughter, Iman, has reportedly left Iran — where she had lived under house arrest for eight years with several of her siblings — and is now in Syria, according to a report in Asharq Al-Awsat, a Saudi-owned newspaper newspaper based in London.

On Saturday, Tariq Alhomayed, the newspaper’s editor, wrote:

Finally, Iman bin Laden is back with her mother who accompanied her daughter to Damascus after many difficult years spent in Iran where Iman lived in a residential compound in Tehran under tight security until she was able to escape and seek refuge in the Saudi embassy in Tehran in search of help.
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