Bin Laden’s widow says they lived in Pakistani house for 5 years

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – One of Osama bin Laden’s wives  told Pakistani interrogators that the al Qaeda leader and his  family had been living for five years in the compound where he  was killed by U.S. forces this week, a security official said today.
The official, who identified the woman as Amal Ahmed  Abdulfattah, the youngest of bin Laden’s three wives, told  Reuters she was wounded in the U.S. raid on Monday.
The security official said Abdulfattah told investigators:  “We have been living there for the past five years.”
Both Pakistan’s army and its powerful spy agency,  Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), have been facing mounting  pressure to explain how it was possible for bin Laden to live  deep inside Pakistan undetected for years.
Pakistani security forces took between 15 and 16 people into  custody from the compound after U.S. forces removed bin Laden’s  body, said the security official. Those detained included bin  Laden’s three wives and several children.
Separately, a senior Pakistani intelligence official  briefing Pakistani journalists on Thursday evening said that bin  Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, fell out six years ago  over the distribution of money. He gave no other details.
U.S. special forces used helicopters to attack the compound  in Abbottabad, 50 km (30 miles) north of the capital, Islamabad.
Pakistani security officials say neither bin Laden nor his  comrades offered any resistance during the raid.
“From the clues, evidence what we have got is they stormed  in with firing shots and knocked them down,” a security official  said.
Another security official on Thursday said their killing was  “cold-blooded”.
The raid on the compound, around 4 kilometres (2.5 miles)  from Pakistan’s main military academy, has further strained  relations between the two uneasy allies.
Pakistan’s military top brass have expressed anger that the  United States did not inform them of the attack beforehand.