Whitney Houston has a new fan - Osama bin Laden. Kola Boof, the terrorist's former sex slave, claims in her new book that he was obsessed with the troubled How Will I Know singer. She revealed to Harpers Bazaar magazine: "He told me Whitney was the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen.

"He said that he had a paramount desire for her and although he claimed music was evil, he spoke of someday spending vast amounts of money to go to America and try to arrange a meeting."

Kola - who until recently wrote for soap opera The Days of Our Lives - also says Osama wanted to shower her with gifts and convert her to Islam. The 37-year-old explained: "He said he wanted to give her a mansion he owned in a suburb of Khartoum. He would say how beautiful she is, what a nice smile she has, how truly Islamic she is but is just brainwashed by American culture and by her husband - Bobby Brown, whom Osama talked about having killed, as if it were normal to have women's husbands killed."

Kola added: "He explained to me that to possess Whitney, he would be willing to break his color rule and make her one of his wives."