It was originally recorded as a video message in 2008, the letter was transcribed on to paper.The documents were released by the US government on Wednesday.
Saad is believed to be the third son of Osama and was born to the terror leader's first wife - his Syrian cousin - and later married a woman from Yemen who bore him three children.
He was being groomed to be his father's potential successor, however was killed in a 2009 CIA drone strike in Pakistan
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(TN: video letter) My last will To my dear faithful wife
Praise God, and prayers and Peace be on the prophet of God, our prophet Muhammad, his family and his allies. My dear wife, Peace be upon you, and mercy of God, and his blessings. How are you doing? I hope you are well and all who are with you. How is my son `Usama and my two daughters, `Asma` and (TN: possibly, Duha)? I pray that you are all in good condition. And how is my sister Iman, and UmHamzah, and how are my brothers and sisters? I ask God that you all are in good condition, and that he expedite your release and of all prisoners of the mujahidin to the shores of safety.
My dear wife, you know that I escaped fromprison for my sister, you, UmHamzah, and Hamid, but I found that the matter (TN: his situation after escaping) may take a long time. I know that you are in a psychological crisis, so I doubled my thinking to find a way out for you, so I ask God to speed up the resolution for you and to get us together on the shores of safety sooner and not later. My beloved wife, Know that you do fill my heart with love, beautiful memories, and your long-suffering of tense situations in order to appease me and be kind to me, and every time I thought of you my eyes would tear for being away from you.
I want you to know that I will not marry on you because I will not find a woman like you, and I will remain in the land of jihad until God will bring us together in this world to see you and enjoy looking at you and at my children, and to compensate you for the kindness and love you missed in prison, due to the tension and being occupied with the thought. Or if meeting in the world is not possible, then I will see you in the thereafter and that will suffice. So be patient and strengthen yourself with faith so that you meet God with him pleased of you, and we meet in paradise between its rivers and luxuries, as that is the eternal life
that remains because you are a good wife in this world, and I ask God that you will be my wife in the thereafter. My will: If I get killed, and you want to return to your family, then that is okay, but you have to raise my children properly, and to watch them, and be careful of bad company for them, especially after puberty, especially the girls `Asma` and (TN: possibly, Duha). So be very careful about themand if you can marry themto mujahidin, then that is best, or else to good people.
As for `Usama, when he reaches adulthood, if there is someone else who cares for you, then send himto the battlefield at his grandfather's. I specify his grandfather because his path is clear and true without qualms on it, and because jihad is an obligated duty for all adults, so he has to conduct jihad. As for you, you are the apple of my eye, and the most precious thing that I have in this world. If you want to marry after me, I have no objection, but I really want for you to be my wife in paradise, and the woman, if she marries two men, is given a choice on Judgment Day to be with one of them.
In closing, Please forgive me for my shortcomings towards you, and that you pray for me, and remind my children to pray for me and to do charity for me, and to arrange for a continuous charity in my memory. So, so long either in this world or in the thereafter, I ask God to protect you and my children fromall evil, and to nourish you and the children with His unsleeping eye, and to give you the best of endings, and get us together in the upper heavens with the believers, prophets, and martyrs, and those are the best company. (TN: a sentence that is possibly “I leave you with God in Sudan”) And peace be upon you, Your husband Sa’ad Ibn `Usama Bin Ladin 15 August 2008 To my dear father
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