STANDING at Osama bin Laden's green front gate, on Tuesday May 3rd, three bemused policemen faced a horde of the world's journalists. Having been, until Sunday morning, the most secret hideaway for the world's most-wanted man, number 25 in this otherwise sleepy neighbourhood has sprung to the centre of global attention. Aside from some twists of barbed wire, a tall (and now cracked and pock-marked) surrounding wall, number 25 is not much different from the largish houses across the potato fields opposite. Neighbours report that the milkman would leave his pail at the gate each morning without knocking. No satellite dish is on the roof, no air-conditioning units are evident. Mr bin Laden's last days and months were evidently passed in some comfort—newspapers and food were reportedly dropped at the house each day—but not luxury. Brief footage from inside the compound , filmed on a Blackberry phone and passed to a TV company, shows a sparsely furnished room but noth...
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