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Osama a sports fanatic, avid reader Press Trust Of India Email Author London, April 18, 2010 Apart from plotting terror attacks, Osama bin Laden is passionate about volleyball and football, and is a voracious reader, a new book claims. According to the book, the world's most wanted man is a useful presence on the volleyball court. "He's so tall he doesn't need to jump up to hit a smash," The Sunday Times quoted author Nasser al-Bahri, the Al-Qaeda leader's former bodyguard, as saying. In the Shadow of Bin Laden also claims that he likes playing football, preferably at centre forward, but never takes his turban off. He's also passionate about racehorses. Moreover, the Al-Qaeda leader is an avid reader who loves quoting from the memoirs of Britain's Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, one of the most inspirational military commanders of World War II, and former French President General Charles de Gaulle, the 38-year-old bodyguard says. The book claims that bin Laden's domestic life is no bed of roses. Though he is careful to avoid conflict with his first four wives - each trained in the use of a Kalashnikov - he's powerless to stop the first - a "seductive" but uneducated Syrian - from being jealous of the second - an older Saudi woman whom he often consulted on issues of 'Islamic science', it says. The four wives, in turn, bitterly resented the arrival of a fifth - a 17-year-old - in 2000, says al-Bahri, who served in the Afghan mountains for four years as one of bin Laden's most trusted lieutenants. The author believes bin Laden is hiding in the restive Waziristan region, in northwestern Pakistan.
