Second safe house ... Osama Bin Laden
OSAMA Bin Laden lived unchallenged in a SECOND safe house in Pakistan, it emerged yesterday.
The terror chief spent 2½ years in the quiet hill village before moving in 2005 to the compound where he was killed.It suggests he was able to run al-Qaeda from Pakistan for more than SEVEN YEARS.
US officials are now convinced he was aided by Pakistan's ISI intelligence service.
The second house was revealed by Bin Laden's youngest wife Amal Ahmed Abdulfattah, 27, who was among 15 people held last week when US Navy Seals killed him at his Abbottabad compound.
Yemeni-born Amal told investigators that they lived in the nearby village of Chak Shah Mohammad. An ISI official said: "She said they were there for nearly 2½ years before moving to Abbottabad at the end of 2005."
Cops yesterday searched caves in the village for signs Bin Laden used them - as locals told of "mysterious foreigners" in the area in 2004. Farmer Mohammad Younas, 55, said: "They asked me if there was any land for sale."
President Barack Obama told US TV last night that monitoring the Seals' raid on Bin Laden was "the longest 40 minutes of my life".
And he said the terror boss must have had "some sort of support network" inside Pakistan to be able to live there.
Furious US congressmen have drafted a bill to block billions of dollars in aid if Pakistan was guilty of harbouring Bin Laden. Pakistan denies the accusation.
Meanwhile, a US drone strike that killed two al-Qaeda suspects in Yemen last Thursday narrowly missed a car carrying Anwar al-Awlaki, exposed last week by The Sun for backing a UK terror blitz.
A PRANKSTER was blamed for a church leaflet pledging a remembrance mass for Bin Laden in Howth, Dublin.
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