Let's give a BIG hello to Osama bin Laden's American
niece. She's Wafah Dufour, and she wants to be embraced
by America. The SF Chron has the AP report. And some pix
from her January GQ spread. Turns out this New Yorker is a
California native, a law graduate, and musician.

She says: "Everyone relates me to that man, and I have
nothing to do with him," Wafah Dufour, the daughter of
bin Laden's half brother, Yeslam Binladin, says in the
January edition of the magazine, referring to the al-Qaida
leader. "I want to be accepted here, but I feel that everybody's
judging me and rejecting me," said the California-born
Dufour, a law graduate who lives in New York. "Come on,
where's the American spirit? Accept me. I want to be embraced,
because my values are like yours. And I'm here. I'm not hiding."

Apparently not.

One more:

Wafah's got this assimilation thing well pegged, I'd say.

Are those Manolo Blahnik stilettos, BTW?

VERY Happy Holidays to you, Wafah!

TECHNORATI TAGS: OSAMA BIN LADEN'S NIECE, GQ, PICTURES, WAFAH DUFOUR, YESLAM BINLADIN

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at December 24, 2005 12:17 AM

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