Bin Laden ‘ran terror group from Pakistan’

OSAMA bin Laden was still actively in control of al-Qaida at the time he was killed in his compound in Pakistan, US intelligence officials have said.

The claim was made as five videos seized at the secret hideout where he was shot dead were released by the Pentagon. In his last ever recording, the leader reportedly threatened that there would be no US security without Palestine security.

Pakistani security officials reacted with scepticism to the US assertion that bin Laden was actively engaged in directing his far-flung network from his compound in Abbottabad where he was killed on May 2.