Nearly a week after the death of Osama Bin Laden during an attack by U.S. forces on his home in Abbottabad in Pakistan, new elements appear, gradually drawing the path taken by the leader of al-Qaida since fleeing Afghanistan. According to the testimony of several people present in Abbottabad, including women of bin Laden, the most wanted man in the world could have lived more than seven years in Pakistan before his death.
Among the fifteen people arrested by Pakistani authorities found three women in the head of al-Qaida and children. One of them, identified as Ahmed Abdoulfattah Amal, told Pakistani investigators that she had experienced at least five years with Osama bin Laden in Abbotabad, roughly since 2005.
Previously, they would have spent about two and a half years in the village of Chak Muhammad Shah in the district of Haripur in the North. This would mean that bin Laden had left the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan since 2003 to settle, unmolested, in urban areas of northern Pakistan.
These revelations made anonymously by Pakistani officials, reported by the agency and the New York Times, are likely to worsen still further the relations between Islamabad and Washington. Many U.S. officials wonder how Osama bin Laden in particular has been able to live so long in a garrison town so close to the Pakistani capital without being flushed out, putting indirectly involved the Pakistani secret service, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
In this context, the Obama administration would require now, according leNew York Times that Pakistan reveals the identity of its main intelligence agents to determine if contacts have existed with the Islamist leader. The United States would like more information on including the famous direction "S" of the ISI, that in close contact with the Taliban movement since the days of the war against the USSR, the newspaper said.
A senior U.S. official anonymously told the Times that a particularly tense discussion took place on this Monday between Pakistani officials and U.S. envoy to Pakistan. 
Among the fifteen people arrested by Pakistani authorities found three women in the head of al-Qaida and children. One of them, identified as Ahmed Abdoulfattah Amal, told Pakistani investigators that she had experienced at least five years with Osama bin Laden in Abbotabad, roughly since 2005.
Previously, they would have spent about two and a half years in the village of Chak Muhammad Shah in the district of Haripur in the North. This would mean that bin Laden had left the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan since 2003 to settle, unmolested, in urban areas of northern Pakistan.
These revelations made anonymously by Pakistani officials, reported by the agency and the New York Times, are likely to worsen still further the relations between Islamabad and Washington. Many U.S. officials wonder how Osama bin Laden in particular has been able to live so long in a garrison town so close to the Pakistani capital without being flushed out, putting indirectly involved the Pakistani secret service, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
In this context, the Obama administration would require now, according leNew York Times that Pakistan reveals the identity of its main intelligence agents to determine if contacts have existed with the Islamist leader. The United States would like more information on including the famous direction "S" of the ISI, that in close contact with the Taliban movement since the days of the war against the USSR, the newspaper said.
A senior U.S. official anonymously told the Times that a particularly tense discussion took place on this Monday between Pakistani officials and U.S. envoy to Pakistan.
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