Bin Laden lived in Pakistan compound 5-6 years

US found al-Qaida leader's courier, a Kuwaiti citizen, by monitoring phone call; newspaper publishes purported bin Laden will.

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US found al-Qaida leader's courier, a Kuwaiti citizen, by monitoring phone call; newspaper publishes purported bin Laden will.

Osama bin Laden lived for the past five to six years in the compound deep inside Pakistan where the al-Qaida leader was killed by US forces, US President Barack Obama's counter-terrorism adviser said on Tuesday.

Bin Laden, who was living in Afghanistan before a 2001 US-led invasion helped topple its Taliban regime, was holed up in a compound in the military garrison town of Abbottabad in Pakistan before Sunday's operation to kill him.

"Well I think the latest information is that he was in this compound for the past five or six years and he had virtually no interaction with others outside that compound. But yet he seemed to be very active inside the compound," White House counter-terrorism chief John Brennan said on the CBS Early Show program.

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Bin Laden lived in Pakistan compound 5-6 years

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