| Osama has special suicide gun: Aide New York, March 31: Osama bin Laden has no intention of being taken alive and has designated a “special gun” to be shot with in the event of imminent capture, according to one of the Al Qaeda chief’s former bodyguards.
Abu Jandal, who was with Bin Laden in Afghanistan from 1996 to 2000, told the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes that his old boss had given strict instructions on what should happen if he was cornered.
“If he was going to be captured, Sheikh Osama prefers to be killed,” Jandal said in the interview to be broadcast on Sunday. “There was a special gun to be used if Sheikh Osama bin Laden was attacked and we were unable to save him, in which case I would have to kill him,” he said.
Jandal, who lives in Yemen, said he believed Bin Laden was hiding out in Afghanistan rather than Pakistan and warned that his most recent threats of another terror strike on the US should be taken extremely seriously. |