Surrogate miscarries Bin Laden son's twins
British surrogate mother suffers a miscarriage after attack in Syria
London: The British surrogate mother who was carrying Osama Bin Laden's twin grandchildren has suffered a miscarriage.
Louise Pollard was ten weeks into her pregnancy when she lost the children conceived by IVF using the sperm of Bin Laden's son Omar and the eggs of his 54-year-old British wife, Zaina, who was previously known as Jane Felix-Browne.
Pollard was travelling in Syria with Zaina when she was attacked by two men as she walked alone from a cafe to her accommodation late at night.
Her assailants did not speak, but punched her to the ground, and then ran away, leaving her with a black eye and bruising on her arms and legs.
Pollard, a 24-year-old personal assistant from Bristol, managed to get back to her apartment, and later went to hospital where a scan showed she had lost the babies.
"There was no heartbeat," said Pollard, who has previously had two babies for British couples.
She said she has no idea of the motivation for the attack, but says she has been recognised both in the UK and in the Middle East as the Western woman carrying Bin Laden children.
Since her ordeal, which she did not report to the police, Pollard has decided not to attempt another surrogacy for the Bin Ladens, who have now separated amid claims that Omar has developed mental illness.
But she insists her decision has nothing to do with the couple's connection to the world's most wanted terrorist.
The child's future
She said: "I feel as a surrogate mother that I have to think about the child's future."
"When I agreed to the arrangement I was trying to help what seemed like a stable happy couple who wanted to have a family.
"Just because they have the surname they do does not mean they have done anything wrong. But now they've split up. Zaina is a grandmother in her fifties, on her own, with not much money, and Omar is apparently suffering from schizophrenia.
"They have more fertilised eggs to use, but because of Zaina's age, I have been told they are probably not that viable anyway."
The Bin Ladens were due to pay Pollard £10,000 (Dh56,576) after the birth of any child she carried for them.
