Osama's Obsession Spooks Bobby Brown US R&B singer Bobby Brown has confirmed that hell be taking extra security precautions for an upcoming tour of Australia, following reports several years ago that Osama Bin Laden wanted to kill him for being married to Whitney Houston. "If anybody is threatened by al-Qaeda they'd take it seriously," Brown told the Sydney Morning Post this week," I figure if Bin Laden wants me, and everybody is looking for him, it probably won't happen. But if he wants to try and find me for something so stupid, he can do what he wants." Though now divorced from the fallen US star, Brown was personally named by Bin Laden's former mistress Kola Boof, in her book 'Diary of a Lost Girl: The Autobiography of Kola Boof', published last year. "He told me that the singer Whitney Houston was the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen," said Ms Boof, recounting living with the Al Qaeda chief in Morocco for several months in 1996. "He said he wanted to give Whitney Houston a mansion that he owned in a suburb of Khartoum. He explained to me that to possess Whitney he would be willing to break his color rule and make her one of his wives." "Whitney Houston's was the one name that would be mentioned constantly," she continued, "How beautiful she is, what a nice smile she has, how truly Islamic she is but is just brainwashed by American culture and her husband—Bobby Brown, whom Osama talked about having killed, as if it were normal to have women's husbands killed," she said. Brown's security announcement came as Sydney authorities launched an advertising campaign urging people to prepare for an unexpected mega- terror attack on the city, based around the slogan 'Let's Get Ready, Sydney'. City dwellers should pack contingency survival kits dubbed 'Go-bags' containing 'maps, food, a radio, toilet paper, sticky tape, running shoes and a baseball cap', the campaign advises, and should designate an 'emergency buddy' they can escape with in the event of an attack. Osama Links: - http://www.harpers.org/archive/2006/09/0081180 ('People are animals. They f**k, pray, and make bombs. The Dinka women of Sudan say the devil is the most beautiful man you will ever lay your eyes on. I never took these words seriously until I encountered my now infamous ex-lover, Osama bin Laden . . .') - http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/getreadysydney (Let's Get Ready Sydney: Expecting the Unexpected: How to get ready: Be Prepared The more prepared you are, the calmer you will be in an emergency. This website contains information that will help you prepare for the unexpected . . .') - http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/42797 (Osama prisoner torture game)