Bin Laden ‘forced to retire’ and suspected wife plotted betrayal

Osama bin Laden spent his last weeks in a house divided, amid wives riven by suspicions.

On the top floor, sharing his bedroom, was his youngest wife and favourite. The trouble came when his eldest wife showed up and moved into the bedroom on the floor below.

Others in the family, crammed into the three-storey villa compound where bin Laden would eventually be killed in a May 2 US raid, were convinced the eldest wife intended to betray the al-Qaida leader.