ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden entered Pakistan across the Afghan border during the early months of US attacks on Afghanistan, then spent nine years on the run in Pakistan living in several safe houses and fathering four children.
Testimony from bin Laden’s youngest wife — the 29-year-old Yemenite Amal Ahmed Abdulfattah — before a joint investigation team in Pakistan reveals the al Qaeda kingpin fled over the border into Pakistan early in 2002, just after the US launched attacks on Tora Bora in eastern Afghanistan. . .