UK - One night, Omar bin Laden was woken by an urgent phone call from a friend who told him to turn on the television. The news headlines screamed that his father, al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden, had been hunted down and killed by US special forces. Omar, once his father’s chosen successor to lead the terror network, says he doesn’t hold a grudge against President Barack Obama for slaying his father on May 2 this year. He comes across as a troubled soul who has struggled to accept being the son of one of history’s most reviled figures. The 30-year-old chairman of Qatari Bin Laden Group, the family’s construction company, said in an interview: “I expected that one day he would be killed but it was still a big shock. I loved him, he was my father. I didn’t agree with what he did—I only believe in peace—but that doesn’t mean I couldn’t love him as a father. I didn’t cry, I never cry, I don’t know why but I don’t. When I heard the news my whole life flashed through my mind like a movie. All the good and bad times, in Sudan and Afghanistan with my father when I was younger.” The fourth son of bin Laden speaks good English. He said in a low whisper: “I don’t hate Obama for killing my father. He did what he had to do. He was at war with my father. My father had spent his time and all the money he could get to fight his enemies. He was America’s worst enemy. Obama and Hillary Clinton did what they had to do but they weren’t smiling about it. People had been killed. Presidents Bush and Clinton had tried but failed to kill my father. It has made Obama very popular.” Bin Laden, 54, was killed with a ‘double tap’—a shot to his chest quickly followed by one above his left eye—during a daring raid by Navy Seals at his hideaway in Abbottabad, Pakistan, 35 miles north of Islamabad. The Seals swooped on al Qaeda chief’s three-storey hideout in stealth helicopters, swept through the concrete buildings and shot dead five people, including bin Laden and his son Khalid. Full Story>>