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The 337-page report is widely believed to have been completed months ago, but it only became public Monday after the news organization Al Jazeera obtained a copy and uploaded the report to its Web site.

 

Pakistan's Foreign Ministry⁶ confirmed the authenticity⁷ of the report but declined to comment on it.

 

The independent committee was commissioned following outrage⁸ within Pakistan over the U.S. raid in 2011. The panel interviewed more than 200 people, including bin Laden's wives and couriers, senior military and intelligence officials and local officials in Abbottabad.

 

According to those interviews, the report establishes a timeline that first places bin Laden in Pakistan in early 2002 after he evaded⁹ U.S. capture during the battle of Bora Bora in Afghanistan. Though gaps remain in his whereabouts during that time, the report suggests bin Laden traveled throughout northwestern Pakistan for several years, settling at different times in Peshawar and Swat, a militant¹⁰ stronghold. For two years, bin Laden then lived in "a big house with two hallways, three bedrooms" in Haripur, less than 50 miles from the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.

 

In 2005, bin Laden moved his extended family to Abbottabad, where he likely remained for six years until the Navy Seals landed two helicopters and blasted through a door and killed him, according to a report. Local officials said they were surprised he was there, and the report notes that bin Laden was isolated¹¹ and that his children rarely went outside.

 

But local officials missed several signs that could have signaled to the country's usually diligent¹² intelligence services that they needed to take a closer look.

 

The report noted¹³, for example, that bin Laden's compound had four electric meters, presumably to "ensure that none would indicate any excessive consumption of gas and electricity." Local officials "should have immediately noticed the ruse," the report states.

 

The report offers fascinating details about life on the run for the world's most wanted man, who, it says, wore a cowboy hat to avoid being spotted¹⁴ from above.

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