(CBS/AP) ISLAMABAD - A report on the interrogation of Osama bin Laden's widow states that the former al Qaeda leader managed to live in five safe houses in Pakistan during his years as a fugitive.
Bin Laden also fathered four children with his youngest wife, the Yemeni-born Amal Ahmed Abdel-Fatah al-Sada.
CBS News obtained a copy of the report.
Joint Investigative Team report (pdf)
Al-Sada, 30, is in Pakistani custody, as are bin Laden's two other wives and several children.
They were arrested after the U.S raid that killed bin Laden in May in his final hideout in the Pakistani army town of Abbottabad. The U.S. Navy SEALs shot al-Sada in the leg during the operation.
Since the raid that killed bin Laden, it has been known that he lived mostly in Pakistan since 2002.
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According to al-Sada's account, she flew to Pakistan in 2000 and then traveled to Afghanistan where she married bin Laden.
After the 9/11 attacks, bi Laden's family members scattered, with al-Sada and her daughter Safia traveled to Karachi. She stayed for eight or nine months in apartments arranged by a Pakistani family and by bin Laden's son Saad.
She later met up with bin Laden in Peshawar, and the two traveled to the Sawat Valley, living in two different residences over 8-9 months.
They lived for two more years in Haripur, before moving to Abbottabad. They were there for six years before the May 2011 raid.
During the manhunt for bin Laden, most U.S. and Pakistani officials said that bin Laden was likely living somewhere along the remote Afghanistan-Pakistan border, possibly in a cave.
The fact he was living in populated parts of Pakistan raised suspicions elements in the Pakistani security forces may have been hiding him. U.S. officials have said they have found no evidence this was the case.
State Department spokesman Mark Toner said today there is no assessment that Pakistan has lied to the U.S. over the years about not knowing of bin Laden's whereabouts. "We asked after the [May 2011] raid if there was a larger network of support for OBL; We've not received any indication to that effect," Toner said.
According to the report, al-Sada said that two of her children were born in government hospitals, but that she stayed only "two or three hours" in the clinics on both occasions. The charge sheet against the three women says that they gave officials fake identities.
The report recommends that al-Sada and her children be deported for overstaying their visa. Mohammed Amir Khalil, a lawyer for the three widows, told the Associated Press the women would be formally charged for illegally staying in Pakistan. That charge carries a maximum five-year prison sentence.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57407106/fugitive-bin-laden-had-5-pakistani-safe-houses/
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