Bin Laden`s wives to return to Saudi

Two of Osama bin Laden`s wives who have been held in Pakistan following the raid in May that killed the former  Al-Qaeda supremo are set to return to their homeland of Saudi Arabia. The two Saudi-born women lost their citizenship with their husband in 1994 but have recently had it reinstated by the Saudi government. As the investigation surrounding the raid is now over, the country`s officials said they will soon be able to head back to their homeland. "We have been working with the Saudi officials since the Pakistani Judicial Commission on the Abbottabad raid interviewed the Bin Laden widows. The Saudi government has agreed to accept his children and two wives, and we are working on logistical arrangements now," a Pakistani official told The Guardian on condition of anonymity. A third wife, Yemeni-born Amal Ahmed al Sadah, was also detained by Pakistani authorities. Officials reportedly said she is now expected to head to Qatar after Yemeni authorities refused to accept her in the country. Bin Laden married six times. His first wife, Najwa Ghanem, was a Syrian who left him just weeks before the 9/11 attacks, returning to her homeland from Afghanistan. The three wives who were arrested after the fatal raid had reportedly been living with Bin Laden at a compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad for five years. Eight of Bin Laden's children, who were also arrested and detained after the raid, will follow the women. It is not yet known whether his favourite daughter Safiya, who is now believed to be 12, will be among those allowed to leave Pakistan. She reportedly witnessed the death of her father.