Life With Osama Bin Laden

The Takeaway

Over a week after the shooting death of Osama bin Laden, Pakistan announced that it has yet to receive a formal request from the United States for access to his three widows left behind in the Abbottabad compound. The C.I.A. believes the three widows harbor valuable information about the terrorist leader. However, it is very possible that the wives were so sheltered that they don’t have any information. For insight into life with the world’s most renowned terrorist mastermind, we speak with  Jean Sasson,  author of “Growing Up Bin Laden: Osama’s Wife and Son Take Us Inside their Secret World,” a  memoir of Osama bin Laden’s son Omar and first wife Najwa bin Laden.

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