Poisonous mistrust between Osama bin Laden's three wives: Retd Pak officer

Mar 08, 2012 |

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It seems all was not well in Osama bin Laden's safe house in Pakistan towards the end.

At least that is what the account of a retired Pakistan army Brigadier tends to suggest as he talks about ‘poisonous mistrust’ between Osama's three wives with one been accused of betraying him to US intelligence.

Osama used to stay on the top floor of his Abbotabad safe house in Pakistan, sharing his bedroom with his favourite and youngest wife.

The trouble began when his eldest wife showed up and moved into the bedroom on the floor below. The mistrust grew so much that one of bin Laden's older wife pointing fingers at his ‘favoured wife’ for betraying him.

Seeking to find out the truth about bin Laden's years in Pakistan, retired Pakistani brigadier Shaukat Qadir retraced the last few days of the world's most wanted terrorist revisiting bin laden's house in Abbottabad.

"As a former soldier, I was struck by how badly the house was defended," Qadir said in the New York Times.

"No proper security measures, nothing high-tech — in fact, nothing like you would expect".

Qadir claims that bin Laden's fifth and youngest wife Amal Ahmed al-Sadah told Pakistani interrogators that her husband underwent a kidney transplant operation in 2002. He said he had also heard of poisonous mistrust between bin Laden's wives.

"In the cramped Abbottabad house ...tensions erupted between Sadah, described as 'the favored wife' and Khairiah Saber, an older woman who occupied a separate floor," Qadir said in the New York Times report.

In interrogation, Sadah accused her rival of having betrayed their husband to American intelligence.

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