Saudi police search for 'Bin Laden lover'

Saudi Arabia’s police are searching for mentally ill Pakistani man who managed to escape from an asylum where he was locked up after he was caught shouting in a public place that he loves Osama bin Laden.

The 33-year-old man triggered furor near a market in the western town of Makkah when he suddenly began singing like birds and chanting for bin Laden, the terror mastermind who was killed by US troops in Pakistan early this year.

“He was expertly singing like birds before he started to chant for bin Laden…he was saying:’ I love Osama bin Laden…he is my brother..’…..he then started to cry before he was seized by the police,” Sabq daily said on Wednesday.

It said doctors examining the unnamed man found he was suffering from psychological problems and decided to keep him in.

“But he later succeeded in escaping from the hospital….police are still looking for the man to deport him.”