The Guardian reports bin-Laden’s niece is getting a reality show:
The news that Osama bin Laden’s niece is to star in a US reality TV show has provoked fury from families of some of those killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks.
The as yet unnamed series, being offered at auction to US television networks, will follow the California-born Wafah Dufour as she follows her “dream to make it in the music business”, according to Regan Media, which is producing it.
Ms Dufour, a 27-year-old graduate of Columbia University law school, was born Wafah bin Ladin, the daughter of Carmen bin Ladin, former wife of the al-Qaida leader’s half-brother Yeslam. “I understand that when people hear my last name, they have preconceived notions,” Ms Dufour said in a statement. “But I was born in America and I love my country.”
She has never met her uncle, she said, but Regan Media made no effort to deny that she owes her fame to the connection. “Her history and her quest for stardom will make a compelling television series: she is a musician, a young woman, and, most important, a human being,” said the company’s founder, Judith Regan.”She is a young woman who falls in love, has her heart broken, worries about her looks, doesn’t always listen to her mother, and hasn’t spoken to her father in years.”
A spokeswoman for the September 11th Families Association called the show “an absolute disgrace …
Judith Regan is pitching the show. She used to date Bernie Kerik. Bernie Kerik was the New York city police commissioner on 9/11, was sent to Iraq to train their police forces, and was nominated to head the Homeland Security Department before his mob connections and philandering scuttled the deal. Kerik’s replacement at DHS was Michael “ I was a lawyer for al-qaeda” Chertoff. Nothing could stink worse than this administration and the scoundrels they surround themselves with.
