DUBAI -- Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden has celebrated the wedding in Afghanistan of his son to the daughter of one of his aides, according to Qatar's Al-Jazeera television which on Wednesday broadcast footage of the ceremony.

The footage, which Al-Jazeera said was exclusive to it, showed Bin Laden sitting on a carpeted floor in a tent surrounded by his son, Mohammad, and other men.

Al-Jazeera said the Muslim ceremony -- during which Bin Laden often smiled and shook hands with the other unidentified men -- took place on Tuesday in the southern Afghan town of Kandahar.

Bin Laden, a wealthy Saudi dissident believed to be living in Afghanistan, has been accused by the United States of masterminding 1998 attacks on two U.S. embassies in Africa.

A senior Yemeni security official said on Tuesday that a suspect arrested recently had confessed that Bin Laden was linked to the apparent suicide bombing last October of the destroyer USS Cole at Aden Port that killed 17 U.S. sailors.