Osama bin Laden's niece, who is featured in a risque spread in GQ magazine, says she has nothing in common with the al-Qaida leader and simply wants to be accepted by Americans.

In the January edition interview, Wafah Dufour says, "Everyone relates me to that man, and I have nothing to do with him."

Dufour is the daughter of bin Laden's half brother, Yeslam Binladin.

She continues, "I want to be accepted here, but I feel that everybody's judging me and rejecting me. Come on, where's the American spirit? Accept me. I want to be embraced, because my values are like yours. And I'm here. I'm not hiding."

Dufour was born in California and is a musician and law school graduate who lives in New York.

She adopted her mother's maiden name after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

The GQ pictures are likely to be considered obscene by conservative Muslims in and outside of Saudi Arabia where women are required to always don veils.

Yeslam is among 54 children of the late Saudi construction magnate Mohammed bin Laden and his 22 wives. The extended family includes several hundred people.

In the interview, Dufour says she would not date a fundamentalist Muslim and that she cried hysterically when she witnessed the attacks on New York.