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BRUCE
DUNNE: You say you lived with Bin Laden for six
months in 1996, and I'll be asking you some very tough
questions about that in a moment, but what was he like
back then?
KOLA
BOOF: Well, he's extremely complex. I thought of
him as a very rich gangbanger--he wasn't hiding in caves,
although I don't know what he did when he wasn't in
Morocco.
Of course, he's evil, and that's what people want to
hear....but he also believes that he's saving the world
by forcing everyone to submit to Islam and to Arabism.
Osama is a gifted poet, he was very softspoken and sensitive--but
also violent....he beat me, and he was tyrannical towards
his men and embarrassed about sex......but addicted
to it. Because I'm black and wasn't Muslim at that time,
he considered me a "non-woman". A piece of meat for
men to wipe their sins off on.
BRUCE
DUNNE: Peter Bergen, a biographer of Bin Laden,
has called you delusional. He says that Osama Bin Laden
was never in Morocco in 1996--in fact, I believe he
claims that Bin Laden has never been to Morocco period.
KOLA
BOOF: Peter Bergen doesn't know what the hell he's
talking about, but I'm sure that the media would take
the word of a white man who's never met Osama against
the word of a Black woman who used to share his bed.
The fact is...Osama Bin Laden was in Morocco in 1996,
he was in Afghanistan, he lived in Sudan, he went to
Ethiopia, Tanzania and Egypt that year. He went to Iran
for a wedding. Peter Bergen and none of these know-it-all
white men know a damned thing about where Osama was...if
they did...the U.S. government would have been able
to find Osama back in 1996. So don't listen to the Arabs
and the White men.
BRUCE
DUNNE: Peter Bergen says that Bin Laden is a chronic
prayer...praying ten or twelve times a day.
KOLA
BOOF: That wasn't true in 1996. Osama prayed on
Tuesdays and Thursdays like that...all day Tuesday and
Thursday, but not everyday. Bergen never lived with
Osama. He's going by heresay.
BRUCE
DUNNE: He raped you the first night you met. How
did you meet and how did you become his captive?
KOLA
BOOF: We met in a restaurant in Marrakech. I was
there with my date and Osama came in with his men and
ordered me over to his table. They escorted my date
out of the restaurant and I never saw him again. Osama
chatted with me for a few minutes, and then later that
night, he came to my hotel room with his men and he
raped me very violently. And then a few days after that,
his men arrived again at my hotel...only this time to
fetch me and my belongings. They took me to the Medina,
La Maison Arabe, and I was kept there in the Winston
Churchill room for six months. Osama came to the estate
off and on, about four out of those six months total.
He had sex with me and I accompanied him and his men
on hunting expeditions and fishing trips. I got to know
a lot of his friends, such as his doctor Ayman al-Zawahiri.
BRUCE
DUNNE: You say that you're annoyed by American women
who complain that you don't act like a rape victim.
KOLA
BOOF: It was ten years ago that Bin Laden raped
me. I can't imagine why I should be crying and acting
emotional. Of course it was terrible being raped...but
I had to survive and that meant I had to pretend to
like the man. There was no time for whining..and in
writing the book, there's no time for feminist theatrics.
He raped me the first night and we became lovers, because
I had to survive.
BRUCE
DUNNE: Most people definitely haven't read your
novels and poems--they don't know that you're Sudan's
most published literary writer--you say that it's because
you're so intelligent that Bin Laden was attracted to
you.
KOLA
BOOF: Osama's mother was like a feminist, she refused
to wear a burka, two or three of Bin Laden's wives are
University Professors. I don't see why that's so hard
for Americans to believe. They think because they've
never heard of me or because my name sounds comical
to them that I'm just a bimbo. And stupid. When they
see that I'm black, they tack on "liar".
BRUCE
DUNNE: I have to admit I loved your autobiography,
but do you really believe that you know more about Bin
Laden than his wives?
KOLA
BOOF: Well in any mansion...it's the MAIDS and the
"Whores" who know the most. Trust me.
BRUCE
DUNNE: Bin Laden's been rumored to have suffered
from kidney problems. Can you tell us anything about
that?
KOLA
BOOF: I'd rather people buy the book, so they can
read about his health difficulties in detail. An interview
isn't the proper...
BRUCE
DUNNE: You say that you're a liberal Democrat, but
you're very supportive of President Bush's war on terrorism.
Is that correct?
KOLA
BOOF: I'm not interested in President Bush in the
least, and yes, I'm a liberal Democrat...but I'm also
a person who comes from the Arab world and I can tell
you that I was raised in Sudanese elementary school
to believe that America is Satan's country, that White
men are "the devil" and to strap a bomb on my back and
blow up innocent people at the post office in the name
of Allah....and look at this idiot president in Iran.
I want blacks in America to understand that the "Arab"
is just as much of a Satan as the White man. To me,
the Arab man is more Satanic than the White man. No
race likes black people--not Arabs, Caucasians, Asians,
Latinos, Mulattoes--nobody likes blacks. Black Americans
need to look at the recent massacre of Black Sudanese
in a public park in Egypt and get a clue. You have to
be sensible about terrorism, and I think that Americans
are way too spoiled, too rich and comfortable. They
like to fancy themselves as fair people....but it's
the relaxed, fair ones that die of poisoned drinking
water while listening to their Barbra Streisand records,
although I'm a huge Streisand fan myself.
I advise Americans to question their government's tactics,
surely, but when it comes to Arab Muslim Imperialism
and terrorism, support your government. There is corruption
in every world government....but none are more corrupt
than the governments of the Arab world, and that is
Kola Boof's experience as a half-Arab, Black African
woman, and my opinion is just as important any other
American's.
BRUCE
DUNNE: Who despises you the most? Arab Muslim leaders,
the Nation of Islam, American media, Black American
men or Bin Laden experts?
KOLA
BOOF: I don't know.
BRUCE
DUNNE: In 2004, you were able to secure about six
hundred million dollars worth of guns and ammunition
for Sudan's south rebel army by giving a rather powerful
speech in Israel. You were also featured on Benjamin
Netanyahu's web site. What exactly are your connections
to Israel or the SPLA's for that matter?
KOLA
BOOF: Israelis and the South Sudanese are nothing
alike, but we share a common enemy, a very common struggle.
If it weren't for Israel we wouldn't have had food or
medicine or weapons to defend our children in the South
Sudan. We had no other offering of help. And, of course,
as a member of the SPLA, I had to work very closely
with the Israelis on behalf of my people. I would do
anything for Africa.
BRUCE
DUNNE: Very recently, with the James Frey scandal
and the debates about the integrity of memoir nowadays,
how do we know that your book isn't a pack of lies,
just another fabulous scheme to further your own writing
career by getting rich off Bin Laden's name?
KOLA
BOOF: You don't know. But the fact is.....my book
is true and none of it is fabricated, and for those
who think otherwise, I really don't give a damn. This
is my life story, my soul book. As Mary J. Blige sings....'you
can hate it or love it".
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Diary of a Lost Girl: The Autobiography of Kola Boof
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