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Pakistan deports bin Laden family to Saudi Arabia

Family has been detained by Pakistani authorities

Updated: Thursday, 26 Apr 2012, 4:12 PM EDT
Published : Thursday, 26 Apr 2012, 4:12 PM EDT

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's government says Osama bin Laden's three widows and his children have been deported to Saudi Arabia.

A statement said the family left early Friday to the "country of their choice, Saudi Arabia."

The family was detained by Pakistani authorities immediately after the pre-dawn American raid on May 2, 2011, that killed the al-Qaida leader.

The U.S. commandos took bin Laden's body, which they later buried at sea, but left his family behind.