US target sanctions on bin Laden's son-in-law (AFP)

A US drone strike likely killed Pakistan's Al-Qaeda commander Ilyas Kashmiri, in what would deal a major blow to the terror network a month after Osama bin Laden's death, officials said.The 47-year-old is one of the most feared operational commanders of the network that bin Laden founded and has been blamed for a string of high-profile attacks on Western targets, as well as in India and Pakistan.

A son of Osama bin Laden said Sunday on Al-Arabiya television that 20 members of the Al-Qaeda chief's family are stranded in Iran as Tehran is refusing to discuss their fate with Saudi Arabia."I think the time has come for my family members to leave Iran but their lack of identification papers and passports made us in need of another third-party country willing to receive them after Iran refused to hand them over to Saudi Arabia," said Omar bin Laden, the fourth son of the Saudi-born head of the global terror network.

Khaled Meshaal, head of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, criticised on Thursday the way in which Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed by US commandos and then buried at sea.Meshaal called on the West to "recognise the atrocity of the American raid and the burial of (bin Laden's body) at sea," in remarks to AFP."Arabs and Muslims are human beings and the West should treat them as such, regardless of whether they are partisans or opponents of Osama bin Laden."

India's Bollywood cinema, known for its exuberant song-and-dance sequences and romantic plots, is to explore new territory with a satire on Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.The movie, "Tere bin Laden" (Without you, Laden), is a story set in Pakistan about a young reporter who seeks to migrate to the United States in search of fame and fortune.The reporter, played by Pakistani actor-singer Ali Zafar, is denied entry and his visa rejected after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

Osama bin Laden's son Omar said on Saturday that Al-Qaeda's North Africa branch should keep out of his family's affairs, after it accused Iran of mistreating his siblings stranded in Tehran.The Al-Qaeda chief's fourth son also confirmed that his sister Iman bin Laden together with their mother Najwa al-Ghanem had been allowed to leave Iran on Thursday after months of trying, and they were now in Damascus."We confirm that Iman left Iran with her mother three days ago," Omar told AFP by telephone from Britain.

Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive, Attorney General Eric Holder told lawmakers on Tuesday.During a heated exchange with Republican congressmen, Holder predicted that "we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden" rather than to the US public enemy number one in captivity."Let's deal with reality," the attorney general added. Bin Laden "will never appear in an American courtroom."