Debate Over Fate of bin Laden Compound

BY JEREMY PAGE

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan—Pakistan's leaders, already battling to control the diplomatic, political and military fallout from the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden inside their country, face one particularly divisive question: What should they do with the house where al Qaeda's leader lived?

The dilemma over the compound where U.S. Navy SEALs shot bin Laden dead is whether to demolish it to prevent the site becoming a shrine to a man widely admired in Pakistan, or to turn it into a tourist attraction akin to Hitler's bunker.

U.S. forces sank bin Laden's body in the Arabian Sea so that his grave ...

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Neighbors Didn't See bin Laden Off Compound

BY JEREMY PAGE

Osama bin Laden's neighbors in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad say the al Qaeda leader didn't show his face outside of his walled compound, and those he lived with were polite but standoffish when they ventured into view.

A local revenue official in Abbottabad, who's responsible for land records, confirmed that the property was in the name of "Arshad Khan," who purchased the plot in 2005. That was a pseudonym used by bin Laden's courier, who inadvertently led the U.S. to Abbottabad, according to U.S. officials. He and his brother were Pakistani citizens, but also Pashtuns born in Kuwait. They ...

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