Osama bin Laden is 'worth more alive than dead': Omar Ossama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden is worth more to the United States alive than dead because his death could unleash "very,very nasty" attacks by militants, his son Omar Ossama bin Laden claims.
In an at times rambling interview with Rolling Stone magazine, which was conducted in part in a Damascus strip club, the terror leader's fourth eldest son said his father had already won the war on terror because he had achieved his aim of humbling the UInited States, and would probably not feel the need to launch more big attacks.
However he said Barack Obama's decision to increase troop numbers in Afghanistan was a big mistake that would damage the US economy.
"It is like adding water to sand, as we say in the Arab world - it only makes the sand heavier," Mr bin Laden told the magazine.
"If I was in his position, the first thing I would do is make a truce. Then for six months or one year, no fighting, no soldiers. Afghanistan can never be won. It has nothing to do with my father. It is the Afghan people," he said.
"It is going to be worse when my father dies," he added. "The world is going to be very, very nasty then. It will be a disaster."
Mr bin Laden, whose autobiography Growing Up Bin Laden detailed his childhood growing up in militant camps in Sudan and Afghanistan as his father pursued his jihadist plan, left bin Laden in Afghanistan shortly before the September 11 attack in 2001. He has since married a British woman almost twice his age whom he met while on a ride to the Giza pyramids in Egypt and now makes a living as a scrap metal merchant in the Saudi city of Jeddah. He has been banned from entering Britain with his wife Zaina because of fears that his presence would cause considerable public concern.
He said he respected former president Bill Clinton for his 'smart' decisions to attack his father's training camp with cruise missiles in retaliation for attacks on US interests in Africa.
"He didn't get my father, but after all the war in Afghanistan, they still don't have my father," he said. "They have spent hundreds of billions. Better for America to keep the money for its economy. In Clinton's time, America was very, very smart. Not like a bull that runs after the red scarf."
His father was delighted when George W Bush was elected president, he said. "My father was so happy. This is the kind of president he needs one who will attack and spend money and break the country.
"I am sure my father wanted McCain more than Obama. McCain has the same mentality as Bush. My father would be disappointed because Obama get the position."
The failure of the huge intelligence and military effort to find and kill bin Laden was a piece of luck for America, said Mr bin Laden, because his father's followers killed for killing's sake while bin Laden was so controlled would only kill if he felt it was necessary.
"People were always asking my father to attack more," he said of the militants he saw with his father in Afghanistan. They would say, 'Sheik, we must do more.' Crazy things. My father has a religious goal. He is controlled by the rules of jihad. He only kills if he thinks there is a need."
He said he doubted that bin Laden would order any more mass attacks.
"He doesn't need to. As soon as America went to Afghanistan, his plan worked. He has already won." (Times Online)