Osama Bin Laden spent the last five years living in the room of his mansion where he was shot and killed by U.S. forces, according to Pakistan security officials.
The claims were made by the terrorist leader's wife, who apparently told interrogators that she and her husband had not left the same room for the past half a decade.
The revelations of Amal al-Sadah, Bin Laden's Yemeni wife, sheds new light on the existence of the world's most wanted man.
Pakistan continues to defend its failure to uncover Bin Laden, who had been living in the Abbottabad region next to a military base for at least the past half a decade, and officials have rubbished claims that the country's secret services have links to Al Qaeda.
It also emerged today that the only way Bin Laden could have avoided being killed in the raid by U.S. forces is if he was naked.
The elite U.S. Navy Seals team that killed him was told to assume he was wearing a suicide vest if he was clothed, according to a briefing given to a congressional aide.
The aide - briefed on the rules of engagement - revealed that Bin Laden 'would have had to be naked for them to allow him to surrender'.
The terror mastermind was wearing his nightclothes - believed to be pyjamas - when the commandos stormed his compound in Abbottabad.
The admission raises the question of whether the operation targeting the Al Qaeda chief - in which he was shot in the head by a U.S. commando at a hideout in Abbottabad in Pakistan - would have done anything other than kill him.
Military specialists have said that, even arriving in helicopters whose noisy approach would have alerted the house's occupants and all but ensured a fight, were typical of a 'kill raid'.
A special forces officer told the LA Times: ‘If anyone feels in any way that there is a hostile threat ... deadly force will be authorised.
'It is a judgment call.
Military specialists have said that, even arriving in helicopters whose noisy approach would have alerted the house's occupants and all but ensured a fight, were typical of a 'kill raid'.
A special forces officer told the LA Times: ‘If anyone feels in any way that there is a hostile threat ... deadly force will be authorised.
'It is a judgment call.
