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Egypt police quiz bin Laden son on asylum bid
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CAIRO, (AFP) - - Egyptian police were questioning Osama bin Laden's son Omar at Cairo airport on Sunday to decide whether to let him back into the country after a failed bid for political asylum in Spain.
"He's still at the airport," an airport official said of the Saudi-born 27-year-old who had been living in Egypt. "Police are looking into his case, to know if he can stay in Egypt or not."
Spain on Saturday definitively turned down bin Laden's request for political asylum after he said his life was in danger in the Middle East because he is a pacifist.
Omar, one of the 19 children of the founder of the Al-Qaeda terror group, had appealed against Spain's refusal Wednesday to grant him asylum, which he asked for shortly after arriving in Madrid on a flight from Cairo.
But Spanish authorities deemed his security was not in danger and he returned to Cairo late Saturday.
His British-born wife Zaina Alsabah bin Laden condemned what she said had been a "political decision", adding that the couple had been trying to raise money to fly to New Zealand instead of returning to Egypt.
Spain's interior ministry said Wednesday's decision to turn down the asylum claim was in line with the opinion of the UN refugee agency.
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Egyptian police were questioning Osama bin Laden's son Omar, pictured in September, at Cairo airport on Sunday to decide whether to let him back into the country after a failed bid for political asylum in Spain
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