Wife betrayed Laden!

Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden spent his last days sidelined by al-Qaeda and slipping into dementia, possibly betrayed to the Americans by a jealous wife and his own deputy, a Pakistani investigator says.
Retired brigadier Shaukat Qadir says he spent eight months investigating the al-Qaeda chief's life in Pakistan, using his army connections to visit the villa in Abbottabad where he lived and died, and securing access to confidential documents.
He says he spoke to Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agents who interrogated bin Laden's wives and saw their interview transcripts, all thanks to a close relationship with Pakistan's army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani.
The Abbottabad house was suddenly demolished, without explanation, by the Pakistani authorities late last month.
Analysing the scripts, Qadir pieced together the most comprehensive account yet of the al-Qaida leader's life after he fled the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan in late 2001.
According to Qadir, Bin Laden may have had a kidney transplant back in 2002, which would explain why his known kidney ailment did not require him to undergo dialysis treatment while on the run.
There were 27 people, including bodyguards and members of Bin Laden's extended family living in the house when the al-Qaeda leader was killed. They had all got on well until the arrival of Khairiah Sabar in early 2011, Qadir said.
"When Khairiah came, everybody else was very suspicious of her. They didn't trust her at all," Qadir told the Guardian. "I am also of the view that actually the person who sold him [Bin Laden] out was Khairiah, not the fictitious courier who the US keeps talking about being al-Kuwaiti."
Aged around 62, Khairiah made her way without her children to Abbottabad on Bin Laden's instructions. The US raid followed within two months of her arrival.
The other two wives, Siham, a Saudi aged around 54 and Amal, a Yemeni aged around 31 had lived with Bin Laden since he moved into the Abbottabad home in mid-2005.
At one point, when pressed by Siham's adult son Khalid about why she had come, Khairiah said it was because she had "one final duty" to perform for Bin Laden. It seems that even Bin Laden feared that she would turn him in, and he "kept telling" the other two wives to leave, but they refused, Qadir said.
Despite being apparently cured of kidney failure, Bin Laden was suffering from a degenerative disease, which caused premature senility, Qadir said. As a result, al-Qaeda's "shura", or leadership council, sent him into early retirement around 2003 in Pakistan.
The Qadir investigation places Bin Laden in South Waziristan, in the tribal area close to the Afghan border, in the early years after 2001. He later travelled back into Afghanistan and then, in 2004, he made his way into northern Pakistan, to the Swat area. Following that, after a few months further south in Haripur district, he eventually moved into the purpose-built Abbottabad home in May 2005.