Riyadh, July 04: Saudi Arabia vowed today to strip Osama bin Laden's sons living abroad and implicated in terrorist attacks of their Saudi citizenship. "Saudi nationality will be stripped from the sons of Osama bin Laden involved in acts of terrorism and living abroad," Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz told a newspaper.
"They will be stripped of their Saudi nationality, like their father, whose Saudi nationality was withdrawn in 1994 for his involvement in terrorist activities and criticism of the ruling Saud family," Prince Nayef said. Bin Laden has 11 sons, three of whom -- Abdullah, Ali and Omar -- are known to live in Saudi Arabia.
Six other sons -- Saad, Hamza, Saif, Mohammed, Khaled and Laden -- live abroad while the whereabouts of the remaining two is unclear. The Jeddah-based bin Laden family, one of the wealthiest and best-connected in the kingdom, has condemned the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington blamed on Osama's al-Qaeda network. Bureau Report