Faithless
03-17-2005, 03:32 PM
Here's one way to stick it to Osama -- push his niece into American spotlight.
Put her out there as one of the virtues of the American dream.
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Osama’s niece rising pop star in NY – feels discriminated for family connection (http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/1958.asp)
Lara Larani * Mar. 17, 2005
Wafah Binladin is an aspiring pop star in NY. After graduating from Columbia University, she lives and loves New York. She is an aspiring and rising pop star. But the record companies believe a contract with her will be devastating because of Osama Bin Laden. Yes she is the niece of the “mother of all terrorists” and the world's most sought after fugitive – Osama Bin Laden.
But she may be the icon of modern Islamic woman – liberated, independent, ambitious and outgoing.
According to the New York Post, Wafah Binladin lives at a friend's posh pad off Park Avenue, pursuing her career as a pop star and living it up on the social scene at swanky Soho House.
Osama niece facing music (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12567843-38198,00.html)
By David Nason in New York * March 17, 2005
OSAMA bin Laden's aspiring pop star niece, Wafah, has returned to New York, the city she left just a few months before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, inflicted by her uncle.
Wafah Binladin - a slim and sultry brunette who spells the family name differently - is reportedly staying in a Park Avenue apartment on Manhattan's well-to-do Upper East Side and trying to force her way into the local music scene.
The wannabe star has rejected her Muslim heritage and has a musical style described as "East meets West with a funky beat".
But a friend quoted in the New York Post said: "She wants to be a pop star but no record company will have her."
Another disillusioned friend said she was a "spoiled rich girl" who screamed at people when she didn't get her way.
Binladin, 29, was photographed this week by the Post but has refused to give interviews.
In 2001, she lived in a loft apartment just 10 blocks from the World Trade Centre but was in Europe with her mother when the terrorists struck.
Since then she has spent most of her time in London, living in an expensive apartment just off Kensington High Street.
Binladin was born in the US when her father was studying in California but grew up in Switzerland.
She completed a law degree at New York's Columbia University.
She has blamed her infamous uncle -- whom she has met just once -- for ruining her legal and musical careers.
Before returning to New York, Binladin was in London, where she rubbed shoulders on the party circuit with Australian songstress Natalie Imbruglia and made pals with millionaire socialite and Elle Macpherson ex Tim Jeffries.
She has also been seen at hip nightclubs with Mick Jagger's daughter Jade and his ex-wife Jerry Hall.
Binladin's mother, Carmen, was married to Yeslam bin Laden, a brother of Osama bin Laden and one of 54 children born to Saudi patriarch Mohammed bin Laden, who had multiple wives.
Yeslam bin Laden is the Geneva-based head of the bin Laden family's European holding company, the Saudi Investment Company.
His marriage to Carmen ended badly and he disowned his wife after she gave several interviews on US chat shows after September 11.
Put her out there as one of the virtues of the American dream.
http://www.indiadaily.com/images/editorial/1958_320.jpg
Osama’s niece rising pop star in NY – feels discriminated for family connection (http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/1958.asp)
Lara Larani * Mar. 17, 2005
Wafah Binladin is an aspiring pop star in NY. After graduating from Columbia University, she lives and loves New York. She is an aspiring and rising pop star. But the record companies believe a contract with her will be devastating because of Osama Bin Laden. Yes she is the niece of the “mother of all terrorists” and the world's most sought after fugitive – Osama Bin Laden.
But she may be the icon of modern Islamic woman – liberated, independent, ambitious and outgoing.
According to the New York Post, Wafah Binladin lives at a friend's posh pad off Park Avenue, pursuing her career as a pop star and living it up on the social scene at swanky Soho House.
Osama niece facing music (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12567843-38198,00.html)
By David Nason in New York * March 17, 2005
OSAMA bin Laden's aspiring pop star niece, Wafah, has returned to New York, the city she left just a few months before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, inflicted by her uncle.
Wafah Binladin - a slim and sultry brunette who spells the family name differently - is reportedly staying in a Park Avenue apartment on Manhattan's well-to-do Upper East Side and trying to force her way into the local music scene.
The wannabe star has rejected her Muslim heritage and has a musical style described as "East meets West with a funky beat".
But a friend quoted in the New York Post said: "She wants to be a pop star but no record company will have her."
Another disillusioned friend said she was a "spoiled rich girl" who screamed at people when she didn't get her way.
Binladin, 29, was photographed this week by the Post but has refused to give interviews.
In 2001, she lived in a loft apartment just 10 blocks from the World Trade Centre but was in Europe with her mother when the terrorists struck.
Since then she has spent most of her time in London, living in an expensive apartment just off Kensington High Street.
Binladin was born in the US when her father was studying in California but grew up in Switzerland.
She completed a law degree at New York's Columbia University.
She has blamed her infamous uncle -- whom she has met just once -- for ruining her legal and musical careers.
Before returning to New York, Binladin was in London, where she rubbed shoulders on the party circuit with Australian songstress Natalie Imbruglia and made pals with millionaire socialite and Elle Macpherson ex Tim Jeffries.
She has also been seen at hip nightclubs with Mick Jagger's daughter Jade and his ex-wife Jerry Hall.
Binladin's mother, Carmen, was married to Yeslam bin Laden, a brother of Osama bin Laden and one of 54 children born to Saudi patriarch Mohammed bin Laden, who had multiple wives.
Yeslam bin Laden is the Geneva-based head of the bin Laden family's European holding company, the Saudi Investment Company.
His marriage to Carmen ended badly and he disowned his wife after she gave several interviews on US chat shows after September 11.