The al Qaeda chief’s fourth and youngest wife and her son Hussein were the only ones in the same room as him in their safe house in Abbottabad, Pakistan, when US Navy Seals stormed the compound and shot him.
The story of the night of May 1, 2011, when US forces killed Osama bin Laden, has been told and retold many times. The US government, US Navy Seals and intelligence analysts have given varying accounts of how it unfolded.
Now, for the first time, we see the events of that night through the eyes of his fourth and youngest wife, Amal, who has spoken to Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy for their book The Exile: The Flight of Osama bin Laden about the last few minutes of the 9/11 mastermind’s life.



















