New York, May 7 (PTI) Slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden lived in a small village close to the Abbotabad highway for more than two years before moving into a larger compound in the Pakistani garrison town in 2005, according to the dreaded terrorist’s Yemeni wife who is now in custody.
The woman told investigators that bin Laden lived with his family for nearly two-and-a-half years in the village of Chak Shah Mohammad, a little more than a mile southeast of the town of Haripur, on the main Abbottabad highway, the New York Times reported quoting two unnamed Pakistani officials.
One of the officials pointed out that this meant that bin Laden had moved from the rugged terrains of tribal villages to the relatively urban settings sometime in 2003.