Osama bin Laden spent his last weeks in a house divided, amid wives riven by suspicions. On the top floor, sharing his bedroom, was his youngest wife and favourite. The trouble came when his eldest wife showed up and moved into the bedroom on the floor below. Others in the family, crammed into the three-storey compound where bin Laden would eventually be killed in a May 2 US raid, were convinced that the eldest wife intended to betray the al-Qaida leader. The picture of bin Laden's life in the Abbottabad compound comes from Brig Shaukat Qadir, a retired Pakistani army officer who spent months researching the events and says he was given rare access to transcripts by Pakistani intelligence. Qadir was also given rare entry into the villa, which was sealed after the raid. Qadir's account says that the place where bin Laden lived since mid-2005 was a crowded place, with 28 residents-including bin Laden, his three wives, eight of his children and five of his grandchildren . The bin Laden children ranged in age from his 24-yearold son Khaled, who was killed in the raid, to a 3-year-old born during their time in Abbottabad . Bin Laden's courier, the courier's brother and their wives and children also lived in the compound. ">RAWALPINDI: Osama bin Laden spent his last weeks in a house divided, amid wives riven by suspicions. On the top floor, sharing his bedroom, was his youngest wife and favourite. The trouble came when his eldest wife showed up and moved into the bedroom on the floor below. Others in the family, crammed into the three-storey compound where bin Laden would eventually be killed in a May 2 US raid, were convinced that the eldest wife intended to betray the al-Qaida leader. The picture of bin Laden's life in the Abbottabad compound comes from Brig Shaukat Qadir, a retired Pakistani army officer who spent months researching the events and says he was given rare access to transcripts by Pakistani intelligence. Qadir was also given rare entry into the villa, which was sealed after the raid. Qadir's account says that the place where bin Laden lived since mid-2005 was a crowded place, with 28 residents-including bin Laden, his three wives, eight of his children and five of his grandchildren . The bin Laden children ranged in age from his 24-yearold son Khaled, who was killed in the raid, to a 3-year-old born during their time in Abbottabad . Bin Laden's courier, the courier's brother and their wives and children also lived in the compound.
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