Under the man-dress, lurks a secret shame

Osama bin Laden had a raging boner for Whitney Houston according to a woman who claims to have been the al Qaeda leader's mistress in the 1990s.

Sudanese activist and writer Kola Boof made the claims in her autobiography "Diary of a Lost Girl."

In the book Boof alleges that bin Laden joked about killing Houston's husband Bobby Brown and inviting her to join his harem.

Apparently in between riding her like his favourite camel, the terrorist mastermind opened his heart to Ms Boof, telling her that Houston was "a beautiful woman with a nice smile who was truly Islamic but had been brainwashed by American culture and her husband."

I don't know about you but I struggle with the idea of Osama bin Laden barring up over a black pop star with a drug addiction and a penchant for the high life. Although I suppose stranger things have happened.