Fugitive bin Laden had 5 Pakistani safe houses

Last Updated 2:10 p.m. ET

(CBS/AP) ISLAMABAD - A report on the interrogation of Osama bin Laden's widow states that the former al Qaeda leader managed to live in five safe houses in Pakistan during his years as a fugitive.

Bin Laden also fathered four children with his youngest wife, the Yemeni-born Amal Ahmed Abdel-Fatah al-Sada.

CBS News obtained a copy of the report.

Joint Investigative Team report (pdf)

Al-Sada, 30, is in Pakistani custody, as are bin Laden's two other wives and several children.

They were arrested after the U.S raid that killed bin Laden in May in his final hideout in the Pakistani army town of Abbottabad. The U.S. Navy SEALs shot al-Sada in the leg during the operation.

Since the raid that killed bin Laden, it has been known that he lived mostly in Pakistan since 2002.

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According to al-Sada's account, she flew to Pakistan in 2000 and then traveled to Afghanistan where she married bin Laden.

After the 9/11 attacks, bi Laden's family members scattered, with al-Sada and her daughter Safia traveled to Karachi. She stayed for eight or nine months in apartments arranged by a Pakistani family and by bin Laden's son Saad.

She later met up with bin Laden in Peshawar, and the two traveled to the Sawat Valley, living in two different residences over 8-9 months.

They lived for two more years in Haripur, see video at left, before moving to Abbottabad. They were there for six years before the May 2011 raid.

During the manhunt for bin Laden, most U.S. and Pakistani officials said that bin Laden was likely living somewhere along the remote Afghanistan-Pakistan border, possibly in a cave.

The fact he was living in populated parts of Pakistan raised suspicions elements in the Pakistani security forces may have been hiding him. U.S. officials have said they have found no evidence this was the case.

State Department spokesman Mark Toner said today there is no assessment that Pakistan has lied to the U.S. over the years about not knowing of bin Laden's whereabouts. "We asked after the [May 2011] raid if there was a larger network of support for OBL; We've not received any indication to that effect," Toner said.

According to the report, al-Sada said that two of her children were born in government hospitals, but that she stayed only "two or three hours" in the clinics on both occasions. The charge sheet against the three women says that they gave officials fake identities.

The report recommends that al-Sada and her children be deported for overstaying their visa. Mohammed Amir Khalil, a lawyer for the three widows, told the Associated Press the women would be formally charged for illegally staying in Pakistan. That charge carries a maximum five-year prison sentence.

[bobnjersey]

[the women would be formally charged for illegally staying in Pakistan. That charge carries a maximum five-year prison sentence.]
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so ... the sentence for staying too long is to make them stay five years longer?

[jdaryyl]

Wake up America. This is more story for part of ANOTHER great LIE. The man had Marfans syndrome and was on dialysis and probably died in 2001 or 2002. Wake up to the lie the media-cia-military industrial complex is pushing on you. Don't be sheep to these nasty globalist elite pigs. Ask questions.

So they also killed him and then dumped in ocean? Faked pictures don't help their story either. Big psychological operation.

You have the right and duty to question your info sources.

[jdaryyl]

joesapper, besides my post, something else real is the dumbing-down toxin in your kool-aid. You really aught to investigate the lies that surround you.

[waassup]

Another story in your legacy, Bush, you dumb ####....

[nursemark-2009]

Hey Anokaman1:
You know that the pipeline isn't going to affect the price of gas, in the US, (except to drive it up? The Canadians want the pipeline so they can get their midwestern oil down to the Gulf. There it can be sold on the international market. They will get more for it then they do now by having to sell it in the midwest in the US. In that way price in the midwest go up and so does the price, they get when they can now ship it to China.

[GlenStanish]

According to a report in the Daily Rash, Osama bin Laden was planning to open a Dairy Queen franchise in Kandahar before U.S. marines blew his head off. http://www.thedailyrash.com/osama-bin-ladens-dream-of-owning-dairy-queen-franchise-thwarted

[venusvegasvada]

The entire world is looking for them...

Where do they not only go, but STAY for almost 10 years because they feel it's the safest place for them to be?

5 safe houses? I wonder if one had a theme park built at it too?

Oh No, I'm sure the Pakistani's knew nothing at all about him and his family being there. Right. Unbelievable.

[Focus503]

Hey WiseAs. Someone who doesn't support borrowing a trillion dollars from the Chinese to send other peoples kids to die in a godless desert hellhole just so we can increase the share prices for Oil Services Contractors is automatically some sort of homosexual? How, Because Jesus?

[GreedyOilParty]

I agree with you about W and his disastrous reign, however the real issue here seems to have to do with our "allies" the Pakistanis. After President Obama sent in Navy Seal Team 6 to take care of the problem, the Pakistanis were very upset (poor babies) that we violated their national sovereignty. I would say it is impossible for bin Laden to have lived in five separate locations in Pakistan without someone, probably many someones, in their security knowing about it. With friends like these, who needs enemies?

[thebob-bob]

5 Houses? That can't be true!! GW Bush assured us that Oasma bin Ladin didn't matter anymore because he was isolated and hiding in a cave somewhere! Afghanistan didn't matter, it was Iraq that threatened the 'mushroom cloud'. And GW had Rummy and Cheney, the Republican A-team for foreign policy and military matters helping him out. Well they sure blew those two wars, didn't they. They messed up the economy pretty badly too.

Trust Republicans with foreign or economic policy? Never again.

Obama 2012!!

[KnowerseekerReturns]

Roemer 2012!!

[thebob-bob]

5 Houses? That can't be true!! GW Bush assured us that Oasma bin Ladin didn't matter anymore because he was isolated and hiding in a cave somewhere! Afghanistan didn't matter, it was Iraq that threatened the 'mushroom cloud'. And GW had Rummy and Cheney, the Republican A-team for foreign policy and military matters helping him out. Well they sure blew those two wars, didn't they. They messed up the economy pretty badly too.

Trust Republicans with foreign or economic policy? Never again.

Obama 2012!!

[Anokaman1]

Theboy-boy: Solyndra, Gas prices over $4 and not coming down because Obama wont put in a pipeline (and more), 5% added to Federal Government on his watch when we are in a recession. four trillion in debt added in four years - most ever. We'll be 25 trillion in debt with another four years of Obama and well on our way to socialism. Great idea.

[xmjm]

Anokaman1: we are already an oil exporter. http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?v=95&c=us&l=en
A pipeline would not reduce the price of gas. It would just mean we could sell more oil.