A Personal Quest to Clarify Bin Laden’s Last Days Yields Vexing Accounts

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In his quest for the truth about his country’s most notorious guest, Shaukat Qadir started where it all ended: the room where Osama bin Laden was killed.

Last August, Mr. Qadir, a retired Pakistani Army brigadier, retraced the steps of the American commandos who stormed through the corridors of Bin Laden’s hide-out on May 2.

Climbing the stairs to the second floor, Mr. Qadir passed a body outline that marked the spot where Bin Laden’s 22-year-old son, Khalid, was shot dead. Then he turned to a small room with a low ceiling, an empty wardrobe and a tight cluster of bullets holes in one wall, he said. Above that, on the ceiling, was a fading splash of blood that, his Pakistani intelligence escort told him, belonged to Bin Laden.

“As a former soldier, I was struck by how badly the house was defended,” Mr. Qadir said in an interview. “No proper security measures, nothing high-tech — in fact, nothing like you would expect.”

full: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/world/asia/quest-to-clarify-bin-ladens-last-days-in-pakistan-yields-vexing-accounts.html?pagewanted=all

[JDPriestly]

1. Interesting. I have wondered who owned the property on which Bin Laden was living?

Was it in his name or that of someone close to him? And from whom was it purchased?

Does Pakistan maintain property records, records of the transfer of property ownership?

Was Bin Laden renting the property? If so, from whom? How much did he pay for it?

[choie]

2. Incredible that the article doesn't mention any

questions about the U.S.'s role possible role in Bin Laden's ability to stay hidden for 10 years.