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Neighborhood Pakistani Kids Had Suspicions About Bin Laden Compound
Usama bin Laden may have fooled Pakistan's security establishment, but the neighborhood kids knew something was amiss when they started making healthy profits every time a ball sailed over the barbed wire-topped wall separating the world from its most wanted terrorist, The Australian reported Tuesday.
"If a ball went into bin Laden's compound the children would not be allowed to get it," said local ice cream vendor Tanvir Ahmed. "They were given money instead; 100-150 rupees ($2-$3) per ball." And there were other signs.
Sixteen-year-old Daniel Alvi, one of those who regularly played soccer and cricket in the field in front of the compound, said he daily saw a man in a red Suzuki van drive into the compound with a live goat, while the milkman only delivered outside the security gate and never rang the doorbell.
In a friendly neighborhood, where most other houses are built close together, the compound was built in the middle of a vast field across the road from other houses. Anyone who dared lean on the wall was warned to move on.
"There was a rumor in the neighborhood that the man who lived there was Baitullah Mehsud's nephew," said Daniel, referring to the late chief of the Pakistani Taliban. "I went over on two occasions after I hit the ball over there and there was no one there. I think there was a $20 million reward for bin Laden, but I never imagined it was him."
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/05/03/neighborhood-pakistani-kids-suspicions-bin-laden-compound/
interesting tid bit
Usama bin Laden may have fooled Pakistan's security establishment, but the neighborhood kids knew something was amiss when they started making healthy profits every time a ball sailed over the barbed wire-topped wall separating the world from its most wanted terrorist, The Australian reported Tuesday.
"If a ball went into bin Laden's compound the children would not be allowed to get it," said local ice cream vendor Tanvir Ahmed. "They were given money instead; 100-150 rupees ($2-$3) per ball." And there were other signs.
Sixteen-year-old Daniel Alvi, one of those who regularly played soccer and cricket in the field in front of the compound, said he daily saw a man in a red Suzuki van drive into the compound with a live goat, while the milkman only delivered outside the security gate and never rang the doorbell.
In a friendly neighborhood, where most other houses are built close together, the compound was built in the middle of a vast field across the road from other houses. Anyone who dared lean on the wall was warned to move on.
"There was a rumor in the neighborhood that the man who lived there was Baitullah Mehsud's nephew," said Daniel, referring to the late chief of the Pakistani Taliban. "I went over on two occasions after I hit the ball over there and there was no one there. I think there was a $20 million reward for bin Laden, but I never imagined it was him."
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/05/03/neighborhood-pakistani-kids-suspicions-bin-laden-compound/
interesting tid bit