Osama Bin Laden’s family deported from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia

This Bus is carrying Laden's Family 

Family of Osama bin Laden have been deported from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia Monday, officials said, nearly a year after the leader of Al-Qaeda was killed in a U.S. raid.

The mastermind of 9/11 The three widows and their children were arrested by Pakistan after bin Laden was killed on May 2 last year in a secret U.S. Navy SEAL operations in the garrison city of Abbottabad, north of Islamabad.

Washington and Islamabad are working to repair their relationship, which was severely damaged by the revelation that the world's most wanted man was living a stone's throw from the elite military academy of Pakistan.

The Pakistani authorities have demolished the house and Abbottabad with the first anniversary of the death of bin Laden, just a few days away, they will be ready for deportation to mark a definitive end to what has been an episode extremely embarrassing.

After being detained for 10 months, the widows and the two older daughters of bin Laden were convicted by a Pakistani court of 45 days in detention on charges of illegal entry and residence in the country and ordered to be deported.

Around midnight on Thursday a minibus collected family boss terror from Islamabad house where they had served their sentence, which was completed 10 days ago.

The family is believed to number 12 - three widows, eight children and a grandchild - although a spokesman for the interior ministry said orders were passed for the deportation of 14 relatives of bin Laden.

They were taken to Islamabad airport to board a special flight to the Gulf kingdom, which took off shortly before 2:00 am Friday (2100 GMT Thursday).

An Interior Ministry spokesman told AFP: "The plane left for Saudi Arabia."

The family were originally supposed to be deported after completing their sentence last week, but the move is dragged - officially because the legal formalities were not complete, but among the suggestions of the Saudis were reluctant to accept a known group.

Then on Thursday, a Pakistani security official said that "some development has occurred in the late evening" that allows them to be expelled.

The family lawyer, Atif Ali Khan last week said bin Laden's Yemeni Amal Abdulfattah widow and her five children, could be sent to Yemen after Saudi Arabia.

Discovery of Bin Laden in Abbottabad dealt a huge blow to the US-Pakistan relations and led to accusations of complicity or incompetence of Pakistan.

After fleeing Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks, bin Laden and his family moved around before settling for Pakistan in a three-story house in a walled compound in the garrison town in 2005.

For President Barack Obama to "get in and get Bin Laden" was made public Thursday, as reported in a scribbled note from then-CIA chief Leon Panetta shortly after the decision was made.

The short notice, published by Time magazine, was dated April 29, 2011, handwritten and signed by Panetta.

"The direction is to go in and get Bin Laden, and if not, to come out," he wrote Panetta, who is now secretary of defense.

"The approval is available on the risk profile presented to the president," he continued. "Any additional risks are taken to the President for his consideration."

Obama chose the riskier option - an assault helicopter secret U.S. special forces on the compound where bin Laden was believed to be hiding.

The bin Laden family continued detention after the raid of speculation fueled the Pakistani authorities were worried about what they might reveal about the time of bin Laden in the country - and how he was able to live there so long undetected.

Abdulfattah, 30, his youngest wife and reportedly preferred bin Laden told Pakistani interrogators that her husband, a father of four, while hiding in Pakistan, according to a police report seen by AFP last month.