Contractor who built Osama’s compound detained from Abottabad
May 4th, 2011 - 5:24 pm ICT by ANIAbbottabad, May 4(ANI): The contractor who built the huge fortified compound, where Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden was found and killed by US troops on Sunday night, has been detained from Abottabad.
Osama bin Laden, who had evaded capture for a decade, was killed Sunday night in a top secret operation involving a small team of US Special Forces in Abbottabad city, located 50 kilometres northeast of Islamabad and 150 kilometres east of Peshawar.
The building’s contractor- Gul Maddah- in late 40s, belongs to Allai Tehsil of Batagram in Pakistan’s Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa province, Geo TV reports.
The building, about eight times the size of other nearby houses, sat on a large plot of land that was relatively secluded when it was built in 2005.
When it was constructed, it was on the outskirts of Abbotabad’s center, at the end of a dirty road, but some other houses have been built nearby in the six years since it went up.Intense security measures in the building included 12 to 18 feet high outer walls topped with barbed wire, and internal walls that sectioned off different parts of the compound. Two security gates restricted the access to the building.Few windows of the three-story home faced the outside of the compound, and a terrace had a seven-foot (2.1 meter) privacy wall. (ANI)
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