Boy leaves school over bin Laden claims

A US writer who claims she was raped by Osama bin Laden has pulled her son out of school after rumours started that he was the al-Qaida leader’s son.

Sudanese-born Kola Boof, 33, said she was held prisoner and forced to have sex with the terror chief in 1996 when she lived in Morocco working as a model.

She later fled to Spain where she said bin Laden threatened to have her killed after reading her first book of poems, Every Little Bit Hurts, which is critical of organised religion, especially Islam.

Ms Boof now lives in Los Angeles, where she has become one of the country’s best-selling African-American writers. But when media reports about her past sparked rumours about her son’s paternity she decided to remove him from school.

“I am fighting to protect the lives of myself and my children,” she said, explaining that a photographer had been seen outside the school attempting to take her son’s picture.

“Osama bin Laden is not my son’s father, and I shall rip out the throat, in one bite, of anyone who tries to photograph my babies.”

Ms Boof has US protection after the National Islamic Front issued a fatwa against her because of her writings condemned female castration and stonings She was recently dropped by her publisher after his printing press in Morocco was firebombed.

In the past she has been accused of stretching the truth about her troubled life to boost sales, allegations she dismisses as rubbish.