Video footage shows bin Laden's life in hideout
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May 8, 2011, Sunday
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Home movies taken from Osama bin Laden's hideout show the terrorist leader watching news coverage of himself on television.
The videos were seized by Navy SEALs after bin Laden was killed Monday. They were shown to reporters yesterday by intelligence officials.
The five movies offer the first public glimpse at bin Laden's life behind the walls of his compound in suburban Pakistan.
The government-selected clips also provide an opportunity for the US to paint bin Laden in an unflattering light to his supporters.
The videos include outtakes of his propaganda films and, taken together, portray him as someone obsessed with his own image and how he is portrayed to the world.
They are among the wealth of information collected during the US raid that killed bin Laden and four others.
The information suggests bin Laden played a strong role in planning and directing attacks by al-Qaida and its affiliates in Yemen and Somalia, two senior officials said.
And it further demonstrates to the US that top al-Qaida commanders and other key insurgents are scattered throughout Pakistan and are being supported and given sanctuary by Pakistanis.
Osama bin Laden may have lived in Pakistan for more than seven years before being shot dead by US forces, senior Pakistani security officials said yesterday, a disclosure that could further anger key ally Washington over the presence of enemy number one in the country.
One of bin Laden's widows told Pakistani investigators that the world's most wanted man stayed in a village for nearly two and a half years before moving to the nearby garrison town of Abbottabad, where he was killed.
"Amal (bin Laden's wife) told investigators that they lived in a village in Haripur district for nearly two and a half years before moving to Abbottabad at the end of 2005," one of the security officials said on condition of anonymity.
Pakistan's military paints a different picture than the US of bin Laden's final days: far from the mastermind trying to strike America, he's seen as an aging terrorist hiding in barren rooms, short of money and struggling to maintain his grip on al-Qaida.
But the CIA is saying he was in touch with key members of al-Qaida, playing a strong role in planning and directing attacks by al-Qaida.
The videos were seized by Navy SEALs after bin Laden was killed Monday. They were shown to reporters yesterday by intelligence officials.
The five movies offer the first public glimpse at bin Laden's life behind the walls of his compound in suburban Pakistan.
The government-selected clips also provide an opportunity for the US to paint bin Laden in an unflattering light to his supporters.
The videos include outtakes of his propaganda films and, taken together, portray him as someone obsessed with his own image and how he is portrayed to the world.
They are among the wealth of information collected during the US raid that killed bin Laden and four others.
The information suggests bin Laden played a strong role in planning and directing attacks by al-Qaida and its affiliates in Yemen and Somalia, two senior officials said.
And it further demonstrates to the US that top al-Qaida commanders and other key insurgents are scattered throughout Pakistan and are being supported and given sanctuary by Pakistanis.
Osama bin Laden may have lived in Pakistan for more than seven years before being shot dead by US forces, senior Pakistani security officials said yesterday, a disclosure that could further anger key ally Washington over the presence of enemy number one in the country.
One of bin Laden's widows told Pakistani investigators that the world's most wanted man stayed in a village for nearly two and a half years before moving to the nearby garrison town of Abbottabad, where he was killed.
"Amal (bin Laden's wife) told investigators that they lived in a village in Haripur district for nearly two and a half years before moving to Abbottabad at the end of 2005," one of the security officials said on condition of anonymity.
Pakistan's military paints a different picture than the US of bin Laden's final days: far from the mastermind trying to strike America, he's seen as an aging terrorist hiding in barren rooms, short of money and struggling to maintain his grip on al-Qaida.
But the CIA is saying he was in touch with key members of al-Qaida, playing a strong role in planning and directing attacks by al-Qaida.
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