Bin Laden raised 16 children in hideout
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May 10, 2011, Tuesday
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ABOUT 16 children who were living with Osama bin Laden in his Pakistani hideout were carefully watched by the al-Qaida leader, forced to study at home and rarely ventured out of the fortress-like compound.
United States special forces killed bin Laden in a raid on his compound in Abbottabad on May 2. Pakistani investigators searching the buildings after the raid found a room equipped with a drawing board that served as a home school for the children.
"The kids weren't allowed to go to nearby schools to avoid being traced," said a Pakistani security official. "They were very protective, very secretive about the children ... As you can imagine, the children may have blurted something out."
Bin Laden spent nearly 10 years in hiding after orchestrating the September 11, 2001, attacks on the US. Among the people that Pakistani authorities detained after the raid were three of bin Laden's wives, a Yemeni and two Saudi Arabians. The two Saudi women were highly educated and taught the children, the Pakistani investigators said.
Among the children were four of bin Laden's grandchildren, they said. It was not believed that all of the other children were bin Laden's, they said.
The children never ventured out alone to play with the neighborhood children and were only occasionally seen walking to nearby shops, but always with an adult, neighbors said.
Pakistani security officials said bin Laden's wives and the children will be deported back to their countries after an investigation is finished.
United States special forces killed bin Laden in a raid on his compound in Abbottabad on May 2. Pakistani investigators searching the buildings after the raid found a room equipped with a drawing board that served as a home school for the children.
"The kids weren't allowed to go to nearby schools to avoid being traced," said a Pakistani security official. "They were very protective, very secretive about the children ... As you can imagine, the children may have blurted something out."
Bin Laden spent nearly 10 years in hiding after orchestrating the September 11, 2001, attacks on the US. Among the people that Pakistani authorities detained after the raid were three of bin Laden's wives, a Yemeni and two Saudi Arabians. The two Saudi women were highly educated and taught the children, the Pakistani investigators said.
Among the children were four of bin Laden's grandchildren, they said. It was not believed that all of the other children were bin Laden's, they said.
The children never ventured out alone to play with the neighborhood children and were only occasionally seen walking to nearby shops, but always with an adult, neighbors said.
Pakistani security officials said bin Laden's wives and the children will be deported back to their countries after an investigation is finished.
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