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What's the deal with the bizarro picture?  It looks like a last-known-photo type photo. And this is the one that she herself uploaded to wikipedia? This isn't MySpace...There has to be a better one to use that shows the subject of the article more clearly.
[[User:Shamrox|Shamrox]] 16:25, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

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:I would like to restore my edits in the lead paragraphs, detailing the October 2002 origin of the bin Laden story in the Spanish press and then in The Guardian. Those edits on their own do not color the relationship one way or the other, they merely historically place the public exposure of the relationship. [[User:Steven Russell|Steven Russell]] 20:29, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
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:These are the two lead paragraphs I intend to restore:
<blockquote>The reputed bin Laden relationship first became public in October 2002, when it was revealed in the Spanish press by "a female columnist" that Boof had an affair with bin Laden in [[Marrakech]] in 1996. That claim was then picked up by the "Matthew Norman Diary" column in the [[London]] newspaper [[The Guardian]] on [[October 24]], [[2002]]. The brief Guardian item quoted Kola Boof giving a response to the Spanish press reports: "A female columnist in Spain is telling people that I dated/had an affair with Osama bin Laden in the 1990s," she began. "That's bullshit. I hate to admit I met him, because it's akin to saying you know Hitler, but I barely knew Bin Laden from 1996-98. When we met in Marrakesh in 1996, I was a starlet and he was trying to screw every female in town." <ref name="Guardian">[http://www.guardian.co.uk/diary/story/0,,817838,00.html Matthew Norman's Diary], The Guardian Unlimited, [[October 24]], [[2002]]</ref>  Later that month, the [[New York Times]] wrote an article about Boof, for which she declined to cooperate, because of the perceived negative angle. On [[November 9]], [[2002]], the Spanish "female columnist" was identified by [[World Net Daily]] as a former roommate of Boof's, named Lourdes Harris. <ref name="worldnetdaily">[http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29607 'Anti-Islam' books spark fatwa], WorldNetDaily, Posted: [[November 9]], [[2002]]</ref> Boof later admitted to the bin Laden relationship, but claimed that it began with a rape.  

It has been reported that FOX news verified her claims about being Osama's mistress. On [[August 23]], [[2003]], Kola Boof appeared in an interview on the FOX NEWS program "Big Story Weekend with [[Rita Cosby]]". Boof and her publicists later claimed that the bin Laden relationship was backed up by Prince Fabrizio Ruspoli, an Italian who grew up in [[Tangiers]], and who is owner of La Maison Arabe luxury hotel, which he refurbished over two years, <ref>[http://www.travelwithattitude.com/La%20Maison%20Arabe.htm The Suite Life, La Maison Arabe, Marrakech, Morocco], By Kate Crawford      February 2003</ref> and where bin Laden reputedly kept Boof in Marrakech.  More recently, Boof and her publicists claim to want to downplay the 1996 relationship.</blockquote> [[User:Steven Russell|Steven Russell]] 19:30, 10 July 2006 (UTC)