AFP: Osama bin Laden's daughter who has taken refuge at the Saudi mission in Tehran is free to leave Iran once her identity is confirmed, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was quoted as saying on Friday. "A while ago the Saudi embassy here said the one of bin Laden's daughters is in the compound, so the foreign ministry told the embassy that based on international conventions if her identity is confirmed she can leave Iran with passage documents," ISNA quoted Mottaki as telling state television late Thursday. "We were not able to confirm her identity but the embassy says she is" the daughter of bin Laden, he added. Saudi-owned newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper earlier this week quoted Omar bin Laden, the fourth son of the Al-Qaeda chief, that one of his siblings, Iman, 17, had recently sought asylum at the Saudi embassy in Tehran >>>
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