Bin Laden's Ex-Mistress Writing for 'Days,' Blasts al-Qaeda

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Bin Laden's Ex-Mistress Writing for 'Days of Our Lives,' Blasts al-Qaeda Head'

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By Bruno Gaston

International Editor

ATLANTA, July 04, 2006, 11 a.m. - NBC's "Days of our Lives" has taken on one of Sudan's most controversial figures to write for the show.

"I learned English watching the show, It's like family to me." said Kola Boof, a top selling author and former mistress of Osama bin Laden.

Days producer Steve Wyman said Boof has had writing assignments for the slumping show since May.

"Steve read my autobiography and just loved it," the former model told Redding News Review in an phone interview.

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Boof has been capturing headlines since the release of her tell-all autobiography, "Diary of a Lost Girl," which talks about her tragic past in Sudan. The book talks about how the U.S. government suspected that she was a terrorist and threatened to take away her American citizenship under the Patriot Act when it was learned that she had spent several months with bin Laden at a hotel in Morocco in 1996. It wasn't until Morocco's Prince Fabrizio Ruspoli, owner of the property, said he believed that she was there against her will in 2003 was she allowed to keep her citizenship.

Boof was born to an Arab father and black African mother in Sudan's Omdurman. Both her parents were murdered after her Egyptian father spoke out against slavery in Sudan when she was a child and she was adopted by black parents in Washington, D.C. She later returned to North Africa in pursuit of an acting career before she began publishing books that were denounced as anti-Arab and anti-Muslim by a Sharia court in Khartoum and was ordered to be beheaded, according to the United Nations.

An audio tape purported to be bin Laden was released in April criticizing Western involvement in Sudan and called on his supporters to fight the "crusaders" in the region.

"We know he is for the Arabs," she said. "He doesn't give a damn about the Africans ... Some black people want to support him because he blew up whitey's tower. What they don't know is that he and whitey are the same brother."

In a recently released bin Laden audiotape praising the slain leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the speaker says: "We will continue, God willing, to fight you and your allies everywhere, in Iraq and Afghanistan and in Somalia and Sudan until we waste all your money and kill your men and you will return to your country in defeat as we defeated you before in Somalia"

Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts controls much of the country after key victories against warlords supported by the United States. The group's leader denies any links to Al-Qaeda.

"I don't want Islam to rule in Somalia. You can't have separation of church and state with an Islamic government," Boof said. "If the U.S. government were to just blow up the Islamist invaders, I would be on their side. Women and children suffer greatly in Africa because of the barbaric Islamic culture. Christianity and Islam are the two worst things that ever happened to Africa."

Boof has written seven books, mainly speaking out against slavery in Africa, condemning the ill-treatment of African women and the negative effects color consciousness among black people.

When asked whether she will eventually be addressing some those controversial issues in her writings for the show she said: "The show is pure romance. Ninety-nine percent of the characters are white, but I am giving soul to these white characters. They don't want anything political."

But she said she is anxious to address color amongst blacks in her writing.

"I would like to show the colorism amongst black people," she said. "I want them to be ashamed of it because I think it is pure evil for black people to oppress one another while they have the nerve to bitch and moan about racism."

NBC has given great attention to war-torn Darfur in special episodes of its hit medical drama ER. In the last season, characters Dr. Gregory Pratt (Mekhi Phifer) and Dr. John Carter (Noah Wyle) spent time in the middle of the conflict caring for villagers at a clinic in the region.