Taking first job after changing problematic name, Iraqi Bin Laden dies
Ahmed Hussein, a young Iraqi who changed his name from Osama bin Laden days before his death. At one picture standing next to Interior Ministe Qasse al-Araji upon the approval of his name change.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Death did not give much time to an Iraqi young boy to take up his first job after years of suffering due to his problematic name: Osama bin Laden.
Having spent much of his life indoors due to persecution over his name, young Osama Bin Laden, officially assuming a new name, died of an electric shock on his way out of home for a first day in work on Wednesday, according to Shafaq News.
His father had named him after the late al-Qaeda leader when he was born one year before the ouster of Saddam Hussein’s regime in a United States invasion in 2003.
He was due to receive a new identity card with the name “Ahmed Hussein” from the civil registry in Baghdad next Sunday.
U.S. forces killed Bin Laden during a raid on his home in Pakistan’s Abbottabad in 2011.
*Correction: the story was amended for inaccuracy of the boy’s age.