Daughter says father was taken alive
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May 5, 2011, Thursday
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Osama bin Laden's daughter has claimed he was captured alive in his Pakistani hideout and then shot by US special forces, it was reported yesterday.
Arabic news network Al-Arabiya quoted "senior Pakistani security officials" who said the 12-year-old saw her father executed and his body dragged to a helicopter.
A Pakistani official rejected US accounts of a bloody firefight, saying: 'Not a single bullet was fired from the compound at the United States forces. Their chopper developed a technical fault and crashed and the wreckage was left on the spot."
The channel said the surviving bin Laden relatives, including six children and one of his wives, had been taken to hospital in Rawalpindi. Amal Al-Sadah, bin Laden's 27-year-old wife and youngest bride, was shot in the leg during the raid but survived.
US security officials said they did not find any arms in their search of the compound, during which they removed two buffaloes, a cow and 150 chickens.
An official with Pakistan's ISI told the BBC that 17 or 18 people were inside the compound at the time of the attack. They included a daughter of Bin Laden's who saw her father fatally shot by US forces, the official claimed.
The body of bin Laden's son Khalid is understood to have been flown out with the Americans, and it is not clear what has happened to it.
Pentagon sources confirmed the Navy Seals intended to take Bin Laden's family with them, but abandoned the plan when one of their helicopters crash-landed. No-one was injured.
Arabic news network Al-Arabiya quoted "senior Pakistani security officials" who said the 12-year-old saw her father executed and his body dragged to a helicopter.
A Pakistani official rejected US accounts of a bloody firefight, saying: 'Not a single bullet was fired from the compound at the United States forces. Their chopper developed a technical fault and crashed and the wreckage was left on the spot."
The channel said the surviving bin Laden relatives, including six children and one of his wives, had been taken to hospital in Rawalpindi. Amal Al-Sadah, bin Laden's 27-year-old wife and youngest bride, was shot in the leg during the raid but survived.
US security officials said they did not find any arms in their search of the compound, during which they removed two buffaloes, a cow and 150 chickens.
An official with Pakistan's ISI told the BBC that 17 or 18 people were inside the compound at the time of the attack. They included a daughter of Bin Laden's who saw her father fatally shot by US forces, the official claimed.
The body of bin Laden's son Khalid is understood to have been flown out with the Americans, and it is not clear what has happened to it.
Pentagon sources confirmed the Navy Seals intended to take Bin Laden's family with them, but abandoned the plan when one of their helicopters crash-landed. No-one was injured.
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