British divorcee marries Omar bin Laden

LONDON – A British divorcee has married one of the sons of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, British media and colleagues said yesterday.

Jane Felix-Browne, a 51-year-old grandmother from Moulton, Cheshire, in northwest England, met 27-year-old Omar bin Laden in Egypt in September, the Times and Sun newspapers reported. Both newspapers said Felix-Browne, who also uses the name Zaina Mohamad, is a parish counsellor, with three children and five grandchildren.It is her sixth marriage.”Mrs Felix-Brown is married to the gentleman concerned,” Elaine Beech, a clerk for Moulton Parish Council, told The Associated Press.Felix-Browne told the newspapers that she met Omar bin Laden, the al Qaeda leader’s fourth son, while riding a horse near the Great Pyramid, in Giza, Egypt.She had been in the country to undergo medical treatment for multiple sclerosis, she said.”I just married the man I fell in love with – to me he is just Omar,” she told The Times.”I hope people will take a step back and think what it is like when they fell in love.”The couple held Islamic marriage ceremonies in both Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Felix-Browne said.She said her husband, a scrap dealer living in Saudi Arabia, had lived with his father in Afghanistan as a child but had left the country before the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States.”He last saw his father in 2000 when they were both in Afghanistan,” she said.”He left his father because he did not feel it was right to fight or to be in an army.Omar was training to be a soldier and he was only 19.”Nampa-APBoth newspapers said Felix-Browne, who also uses the name Zaina Mohamad, is a parish counsellor, with three children and five grandchildren.It is her sixth marriage.”Mrs Felix-Brown is married to the gentleman concerned,” Elaine Beech, a clerk for Moulton Parish Council, told The Associated Press.Felix-Browne told the newspapers that she met Omar bin Laden, the al Qaeda leader’s fourth son, while riding a horse near the Great Pyramid, in Giza, Egypt.She had been in the country to undergo medical treatment for multiple sclerosis, she said.”I just married the man I fell in love with – to me he is just Omar,” she told The Times.”I hope people will take a step back and think what it is like when they fell in love.”The couple held Islamic marriage ceremonies in both Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Felix-Browne said.She said her husband, a scrap dealer living in Saudi Arabia, had lived with his father in Afghanistan as a child but had left the country before the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States.”He last saw his father in 2000 when they were both in Afghanistan,” she said.”He left his father because he did not feel it was right to fight or to be in an army.Omar was training to be a soldier and he was only 19.”Nampa-AP