CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) -- Omar bin Laden has a message for his father, Osama: "Find another way."



Omar bin Laden says he last saw his father in 2000 when the son decided to leave al Qaeda.



The son of the most-wanted man in the world spoke Sunday to CNN in a quiet, middle-class suburb about an hour outside Cairo, Egypt.



Omar bin Laden, who works as a contractor, said he is talking publicly because he wants an end to the violence his father has inspired -- violence that has killed innocent civilians in a spate of attacks around the world, including those of September 11, 2001.



"I try and say to my father: 'Try to find another way to help or find your goal. This bomb, this weapons, it's not good to use it for anybody,' " he said in English learned in recent months from his British wife.



He said that's not just his own message, but one that a friend of his father's and other Muslims have expressed to him. "They too say ... my father should change [his] way," he said.  Watch whether Omar bin Laden thinks his father will ever be caught »



He said he hasn't spoken to his father since 2000, when he walked away from an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan with his father's blessings. He said he has no idea where his father is, but is confident he will never be caught because locals support him.



Asked if his father might be living along the Afghan-Pakistan border, he said, "Maybe, maybe not."



"Either way, the people there are different," he said. "They don't care about the government."



Now, he and his wife are preparing to launch a movement far different from the one his father, Osama bin Laden, launched. They are pursuing a movement for peace.



At first glance, Omar bin Laden appears to have little in common with the man who has eluded international efforts to find him. The 26-year-old's hair is bound in neat braids, he drives a Jeep and is married to a British national twice his age.



But the physical resemblance quickly sinks in, even without the long beard his father favors. It is a resemblance he doesn't avoid. "Being Osama's son, I don't hide it. I don't hide my name," he said.



"I am proud by my name, but if you have a name like mine you will find people run away from you, are afraid of you."



He said he doesn't consider his father to be a terrorist. When his father was fighting the Soviets, Washington considered him a hero, he said.



"Before they call it war; now they call it terrorism," he said. He said his father believes his duty is to protect Muslims from attack.



"He believes this is his job -- to help the people," he said. "I don't think my father is a terrorist because history tells you he's not."



However, Omar bin Laden -- who was 14 when he began training in al Qaeda camps -- said he differs greatly with his father over the killing of civilians.



Was 9/11 a just attack?



"I don't think 9/11 was right personally, but it happened," he said. "I don't think ... [the war] in Vietnam was right. I don't think what's going on in Palestine is right. I don't think what's going on in Iraq is right.



"If we make what is right and not right, we will make a very big list," he said.



He said he left al Qaeda because he did not want to be associated with killing civilians. He said his father did not try to dissuade him from leaving al Qaeda.



"I told him I was going, and wanted to try life and see what it was like outside because, from
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