Once America's most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden used to wear a cowboy hat and go around his compound in Pakistan, wondering whether to trim the surrounding poplar trees because spies might ...

Other bin Laden relatives have turned authors, making their case for some kind of redemption, or at least sympathy, in print.

Omar and his British wife Zaina said in an interview in 2010 that at least six of Osama bin Laden’s children and one of his wives lived in a comfortable compound in Tehran with other relatives.

When US special forces raided the compound in May 2011, Bin Laden was living with his five children and four of his grandchildren, along with several wives and an adult son who was killed in the raid.

Ruta Awhad, the wife of senior NCP (Sharad Pawar) leader Jitendra Awhad, sparked a row after she allegedly compared slain terrorist Osama bin Laden to scientist and former President APJ Abdul Kalam.