Al Qaeda founder the late Osama bin Laden... who has left the building...
moved to Pakistain in 2002, a few months after US started large-scale air strikes on Afghanistan, particularly in the Tora Bora region, during its anti-Taliban war which it launched in 2001 in the wake of 9/11 attacks.
The information about Osama crossing over into Pakistain and staying in different cities and towns before moving to Abbottabad
... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden....
came in the testimony given by his widow Amal Ahmed Abdulfattah during interrogation by a joint investigation team (JIT) comprising civilian and military officials.
She told the Sherlocks that after 9/11 she reunited with her husband in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar in 2002. From Peshawar they went to Swat
...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...where they lived for about nine months. Later, they stayed for about two years in Haripur before moving to Abbottabad where the Al Qaeda leader was killed in a raid by US commandos in May last year.
In the first full account of Osama's movement after 9/11, she told the investigation team in Islamabad that she had lived with him in four cities of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
, but declined to say if any Pak official had been in contact with him.
The 29-year-old Yemeni woman said she had a desire to marry a mujahid. Osama was available. "So in this connection when she got a message of marriage with Osama bin Laden, she came to Pakistain and landed at Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
airport on 17/07/2000," the JIT report said.
But she overstayed her three-month visa and later went to Kandahar in Afghanistan. Ms Amal told the Sherlocks that she got married to Osama before 9/11, but did not specify any date. According to her, Osama was living with his three wives, including her, and some Arab families. Then came 9/11 and the family scattered.
"She stayed in a flat in Bloody Karachi for almost 8/9 months and all the things were arranged by some Pak families and Saad, elder son of Osama, was coordinating all the things," the report said.
She told the Sherlocks that during her stay in Bloody Karachi she changed her residence six or seven times. The Sherlocks say they have not been able to trace Saad.
According to the JIT report, after their reunion in Peshawar Osama and Amal went to Swat where they stayed for 8/9 months.
Thereafter they stayed in Haripur for two years and subsequently shifted to Abbottabad and lived there for almost six years till the time Osama was killed.
Amal's eldest daughter, Safia, was born in Kandahar in 2001. Aasia and Ibrahim were born in Haripur in a government hospital and Zainab and Hussain in Abbottabad.
The report discloses that Osama's family lived in Pakistain with the families of two Paks, Ibrahim and Abrar.
Investigators told Dawn that the two Pak men had fake identity cards from Sargodha and their real identities were never ascertained because they were killed during the US raid on Osama's compound in Abbottabad.
The JIT recommends that Amal, and her five children, may be repatriated to her country, Yemen.
Ms Amal is the only member of Osama's family who agreed to talk to Pak interrogators.
The two other widows, Khairia Hussain Sabir alias Umme Hamza and Siham Sharif alias Umme Khalid, and their daughters Mariam and Summaya, have refused to cooperate with the Sherlocks.
The report does not say if any government or military official knew about Osama's presence in Pakistain.
The trial of Osama's family is under way in the federal capital. His widows and two adult daughters are likely to be charged under the Foreigners Act next week.
They are being tried in a heavily guarded house in G-6 sector where the family members spoke to Sherlocks in a hall where they were separated by a curtain. "They observe strict 'purdah' and are fully covered under veil from head to toe," one investigator said.
Amal's brother Zakaria Al Sadah is in Pakistain, trying to secure the release of his sister and her children. "My sister wants to go back. She is innocent and has not committed any crime. She should be freed immediately," he said.
But his request has not been accepted so far.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik
Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men.
has said they will be tried and will not be allowed to leave the country before the court's ruling.