Bin Laden Yemeni widow to stay in KSA: relative

Osama bin Ladens Yemeni widow has received assurances from Saudi officials that she and her children can remain in the kingdom, a relative said Friday after Pakistan deported more than a dozen members of the late al-Qaida leaders family.The relative, speaking from Yemen, said Amal Ahmed Abdel-Fatah al-Sada plans to stay in Saudi Arabia with her five children rather than return to her impoverished and violence-wracked homeland. The relative said the bin Laden family will provide a home and living expenses.The bin Laden family, which includes dozens of siblings of Osama, is one of the most prominent in Saudi Arabia, with close ties to the royal family and a fortune rooted in a construction business began by Osamas father. The family largely distanced itself from the late al-Qaida leader years ago.Al-Sadas relative spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.Al-Sada and two other bin Laden widows identified as Saudi nationals as well as other family members were flown out of Pakistan early Friday following weeks of negotiations over the deportations. The possible future plans for the Saudi widows and their families were not immediately known.Saudi Arabia stripped bin Laden of his citizenship in 1994 because of his denunciations of the Saudi royal family, and there have been questions about whether the kingdom would accept his widows and children.Saudi officials have made no public comment on the deportations, which were carried out less than a week before the one-year mark since bin Ladens death in a raid by Navy SEALs on his Pakistan compound.The departure of the bin Laden family from Pakistan closed another chapter in an affair that cemented the countrys reputation as a hub of extremism and cast doubt on its trustworthiness as a Western ally.