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Son: Bin Laden Worth More Alive Than Dead

Usama 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 United 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 U.S. economy.

Read entire article at The Times (UK)