<i>Bin Laden liked Che Guevara!</i>
Osama bin Laden's three wives were fiercely loyal to him and gave little away when they were interrogated after the al-Qaeda chief was killed in a US raid over a year ago, a Pakistani intelligence agent who questioned them said.
Slowly puffing on a cigarette in a rundown Islamabad villa as he described months of questioning the women, the agent said he struggled to glean any worthwhile information.
Yemeni-born Amal Al-Sadeh, the youngest of the three, was headstrong and showed fury when asked questions, while the others, Saudi citizens, expressed displeasure by mostly keeping silent behind their veils, the agent said.
All appeared to strongly support bin Laden, despite the militant's long and bloody record of orchestrating violence across the world.
But at times Amal was somewhat flexible.
"Amal once told me that she and bin Laden liked Che Guevara. She seemed like a rebel so I questioned her about Latin American leftists. I found her very interesting," said the agent.
It was not possible to independently confirm his account.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara was an Argentine Marxist who was a major figure in the Cuban revolution. He was executed in Bolivia in 1967.
"The other wives didn't say much. They were boring," said the agent.
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