Now here is a Bin Laden I would like to know. Hehe...

From GQ Magazine:

On a hot August afternoon, aspiring pop star Wafah Dufour walks into the media lunch hub Michael's, in Midtown Manhattan. Accompanied by her publicist, Richard Valvo, the slender, exotic young woman with long dark hair in a high ponytail a la I Dream of Jeannie is dressed in a white tank top, green love beads, lacy miniskirt, and backless pumps. Conversations continue as heads look up to check her out.

The niece of the man who orchestrated the destruction of the World Trade Center seventy-eight blocks to the south has a point. After September 11, the name bin Laden (which is how it's spelled when referring to Osama) turned radioactive, borderline satanic-by-association. It made her feel cursed, presumed guilty... made her wonder if it might keep her from ever getting a record deal. So she took her mother's maiden name, Dufour, which makes for a better first impression, even though the bin Laden taint is always there.

I have to say, the girl has "cajones," to do that interview, and to pose the way she did for the magazine, I am sure "Uncle O," has probably issued a fatwah or something already....

In the words of "my peeps," "You go girl!"

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