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Only now do they know who their playmates really were. my grandmother asked in pashtu, who is your father? they said nadeen. they always said nadeen. through this brother and sister, we get to piece together daily life in the bin laden compound. rather than speaking the local language, the bin ladens preferred pashtu, the language of the afghanistan-pakistan border. they were a normal family, friendly. they never saw osama bin laden. he remained well hidden. they did meet the bin laden wives. there were two aunties standing in the house, zarah says. they asked me, how was i? where did i live? what did my mother do? i told them my mother was a housewife. they wore ordinary pakistani clothes. zarah said he noticed the women were different from other mothers in the neighborhood. they spoke in a strange language, he says, very poor ....
Urdu. then i thought probably they were arabic. and the children were different too. even in this muslim community, they were especially devout. they were very religious, zarah says. whenever i went there to play, they asked me to wait until afternoon prayer, then they would stop playing later for evening prayer. asa shows us pet rabbits, a gift from the bin laden family. after everything, she says she misses her friends. they were young. they were beautiful. i really miss them. they were the only children we played with. zarah and asa s father is a government official in the justice department. yet osama bin laden lived right next door, and no one knew. the bin ladens lived this way for years in the heart of abbottabad, a military city in the mountains, two hours drive north from pakistan s capital islamabad. now the area is in lockdown. in recent days, it s been open for the cia to collect material and information, but no such access for us. as we try to get close, this is what happe ....
200 meters from where bin laden lived and died. he has more sympathy for the slain al qaeda leader than foreigners, swearing at us, calling us pigs. are muslims terrorists everywhere, he says? actually, america is the biggest terrorist. others, though, are friendlier. this boy zarah approaches us with a story to tell. he and his sister befriended bin laden s youngest children and grandchildren. they say there were two boys, one girl, 7, 4, and 3 years old. zarah relives the cricket games he played with them. that s the white bin laden house you can see behind us. contradicting reports that no outsiders breached the bin laden security, zarah says he actually played inside the compound itself, getting a close look at a secret world. despite being neighbors, the brother and sister didn t know the bin laden children names. the children told them their father was the family courier they called nadeen. ....
items to his room. moammar gadhafi is ready for a cease-fire, parentally, according to the south african president trying to broker a truce. gadhafi is not promising to step down, which is the main demand of the rebels. sarah palin s one-nation bus tour is in gettysburg, finally. there are times when she sounds like a would-be presidential candidate. she still isn t ready to call her tour anything but a campaign for america s constitution. the tour started in washington wag. then, it continued on to pennsylvania. there was some confusion about where exactly her bus was headed at times. she refuses to tell the so-called mainstream media exactly where she is going. her co-worker, greta van susteren was invited on the bus. she said, despite how things look, her one nation tour is not political. it is not about me. it is not a publicity-seeking tour. it is about highlighting the great things about america and the media can figure out where we are going if they do thei ....
there were two aunties standing in the house, he said. they asked me, where did i live, what do they do? i told them my mother was a housewive. they wore ordinary pakistani clothes. he noticed the women were different from other mothers in the neighborhood. they spoke in a very strange language, very poor, then i thought, probably they were arabic. the children were dimpbfferent, too. they were especially devout. they were very religious, he says. whenever i went there to play, they asked me to wait until afternoon prayer, then they would stop playing later for evening prayer. he shows us pet rabbits, a gift from the bin laden family. after everything, she says, she misses her friends. they were young. they were beautiful. i really miss them. they were the only children we played with. zarah s father is a government official in the justice department. yet osama bin laden lived next ....