What if the world’s most wanted man was hiding out in your own hometown? That’s the case for Ali Bokhari, a doctor from Abbottabad – the garrison town just an hour’s drive north of Pakistan’s capital where Osama bin Laden was living. We talk with Bokhari, who says he’s driven by the large compound hundreds of times and never suspected the al-Qaida leader was living there. Below: Ali Bokhari says many homes nearby resembled a Osama bin Laden’s compound, such as this one.
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