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...BIN LADEN NAME HAS BECOME INFAMOUS, BUT ONE FAMILY MEMBER IS trying to give it a different odor. Osama's older half brother (they share the same father) has just put his name on a new perfume, a jasmine-heavy scent dubbed Yeslam. Bin Ladin (his spelling), a resident of Geneva who has dual Swiss-Saudi citizenship, spoke with TIME's Scott MacLeod in Paris...
AREN'T PEOPLE GOING TO SAY, "COME ON, A PERFUME FROM OSAMA'S BROTHER"? I'm not only a bin Laden. I am Yeslam bin Ladin. I have my own identity. It is my perfume, my creation. I was about to do it several years ago, but then I had to stop because of the events of Sept. 11. I expect people out of curiosity will try it, and they will find the smell out of this world...
WHAT'S IT LIKE BEING A BIN LADEN AFTER 9/11? Very difficult. I had to defend myself. The Attorney General of Switzerland decided to come one day uninvited. He took away cartons and cartons of documents. I understand that after Sept. 11 there was lots of suspicion and that everybody wanted to check everything. The investigation has finished, the file has been closed, and nothing was ever found...
WHAT ABOUT MICHAEL MOORE'S COMPLAINT--THAT LOTS OF BIN LADENS FLED THE U.S. AFTER 9/11 WITHOUT BEING QUESTIONED PROPERLY BY THE FBI? They did not feel welcome anymore in the U.S. at that time. I want you to put yourself in their shoes. Many senior members of the family were interviewed by the U.S. authorities prior to 9/11. [Those authorities] knew everything about the family before. I have been interviewed by the U.S. authorities...