# Osama bin Laden is in love with Whitney Houston? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 16, 2009, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-in-love-with-whitney-houston/510369 "2009-09-16T22:33:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-in-love-with-whitney-houston/510369/1 "2009-09-16T22:33:22Z")
I was watching Chelsea Lately the other night and she brought up the fact that Osama bin Laden is in love with Whitney Houston. If you type “Osama bin Laden Whitney Houston” into Google, a ton of hits come up, mostly on such sites as The Daily Mail, Perez Hilton, etc., but then I found a link to an article in [Harper’s Magazine](http://www.harpers.org/archive/2006/09/0081180), which is generally a reputable source, wherein Kola Boof, the former girlfriend of bin Laden, speaks of his obsession with Houston, his desire to marry her and give her a house in Khartoum, after killing Bobby Brown, of course. Apparently he really IS obsessed with Whitney. Wow. I’m not even sure if this is the right forum for this. I just found this piece of information such an enormous WTF that I had to share it. What a weird world we live in, where the foremost terrorist and archenemy of America is smitten with a former drugged out, past her prime pop star. I guess anyone can succumb to a crush on a famous person… ---
**Author:** ![Belowjob2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Belowjob2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belowjob2.0)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-in-love-with-whitney-houston/510369/2 "2009-09-16T23:20:56Z")
Osama’s been underground for years now. He was obsessed with the Whitney circa her SNL appearance (1999?), when she looked gorgeous and sang like an angel. It’s debatable whether he’s even aware of post crack rehabbed Whitney. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-in-love-with-whitney-houston/510369/3 "2009-09-16T23:22:44Z")
This was big news for awhile 4 or 5 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-in-love-with-whitney-houston/510369/4 "2009-09-16T23:25:27Z")
So was that a really old episode of Chelsea Lately that was re-aired? Or why was she talking about it this week? I hadn’t heard it before, and I did a search of the board and there hadn’t been a thread, so I figured others might want to marvel at the weirdness along with me. I guess you’re all already done with that, being way ahead of me on the latest bin Laden/Whitney gossip. Ah well. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2009, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-in-love-with-whitney-houston/510369/5 "2009-09-17T00:05:33Z")
Hey, it’s news to me. That is really weird. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2009, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-in-love-with-whitney-houston/510369/6 "2009-09-17T00:45:32Z")
Why would he need to kill Bobby Brown since he and Whitney have been divorced a long time? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2009, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-in-love-with-whitney-houston/510369/7 "2009-09-17T00:48:20Z")
Come on, it’s Osama bin Laden. He just likes killing people. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2009, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-in-love-with-whitney-houston/510369/8 "2009-09-17T01:14:15Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > Why would he need to kill Bobby Brown since he and Whitney have been divorced a long time? The Harper’s article is from 2006, which is the same year that WH and BB filed for divorce, so Boof’s tale of bin Laden’s love dates from before the divorce. I’m still puzzled about why Chelsea Handler wanted to talk about this recently. Maybe because of Whitney’s comeback? In any case, even if it’s old news, it’s new to me, so I’m still giggling over it. Just think of the good Whitney could do for the free world if she could just make little Osama’s dreams come true? He should release a video just for her. ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2009, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-in-love-with-whitney-houston/510369/9 "2009-09-17T01:53:47Z")
I thought it was Saddam Hussein that was “in love with” her. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2009, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-in-love-with-whitney-houston/510369/10 "2009-09-17T01:54:48Z")
Yeah, they could retire to a little love nest and we’d never hear from either of them again! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Belowjob2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Belowjob2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belowjob2.0)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2009, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-in-love-with-whitney-houston/510369/11 "2009-09-17T03:10:39Z")
> [@dangermom](#): > > Hey, it’s news to me. That is really weird. There’s a centuries long tradition of wealthy Saudis taking Sudanese women as wives/concubines. Whitney’s not Sudanese, but she is a hot black chick. [Prince Bandar is the child of such a union.](http://taraummomar.blogspot.com/2009/08/royal-saudinon-saudi-marriages-and_29.html)