Daughter: Bin Laden captured alive, executed later
May 5, 2011 10:04 am
Controversy again surrounds the Osama Bin Laden killing now with Laden’s daughter claiming yesterday that Laden was captured alive in his Pakistani hideout and then shot to death by US Navy Special Forces.
Arabic news network Al-Arabiya quoted “senior Pakistani security officials” who
said the 12-year-old daughter saw her father was executed by bullets, and then,
his body dragged to a waiting U.S. helicopter.
A Pakistani official rejected US accounts of a bloody firefight with bin Laden’s
bodyguards and associates, 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.
And, Amal Al-Sadah, bin Laden’s 27-year-old wife and his youngest bride, was
shot in the leg during the raid but survived the injury.
Local security officials said they did not find any arms in their search of the
compound hiding bin Laden and his men and family members, 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 American Navy SEALs, 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 SEAL member was injured.
Agencies
