On May 2, 2011, then-U.S. President Barack Obama made a sudden emergency announcement late at night announcing to the world that U.S. military and CIA agents had killed Bin Laden, the culprit of the 9/11 incident, in Pakistan.
After bin Laden was killed, his three wives, eight children and four grandchildren, who lived with him, were also under the control of pakistani police.
A Pakistani court sentenced bin Laden's three wives and two daughters (the rest of whom were minors) to one month's imprisonment on charges of "unlawful residence in Pakistan", and the family was temporarily housed in a house in Islamabad.
Unexpectedly, however, during this brief detention, bin Laden's two wives, "Kehelia" and "Emmar", actually broke out into fierce conflicts many times, beating each other, accusing each other of betraying their husband bin Laden!
Bin Laden promoted "polygamy" and was married twenty-two times in his lifetime, and although many of his wives divorced him or died in the war, until his death, there were still five wives alive, three of whom were with him until the end.
The three wives were: "Three Rooms" Kehelia, "Four Rooms" Siham Sharif, and "Five Rooms" Emmar.
Mrs. Khelia, a child psychologist who became fascinated by bin Laden after her encounter with him, gave up her profession and family to stay with him for decades in order to follow in his footsteps.
Siham, on the other hand, has a doctorate, and due to her high level of education, before that, she often edited speeches for bin Laden, which was bin Laden's inseparable "literary guts".
However, compared with the first two, the five-room Emmar is unremarkable.
Of all bin Laden's wives, Emaar was the youngest, but because of his outstanding appearance, he attracted the attention of bin Laden as early as the age of 17, and after the two fell in love, bin Laden took him with him.
According to her family's recollection, Emaar was taken away by bin Laden and was almost inseparable, and she returned home only once in 12 years.
After the outbreak of 9/11, the United States launched a worldwide arrest and hunt for os-jain Bin Laden, who had been hiding in the mountains of northern Afghanistan with his family.
However, around 2006, with the gradual expansion of U.S. military power in Afghanistan, Afghanistan slowly became less secure, and almost every few days there was news of betrayals or air raids on members of the "organization", and in order to avoid becoming the next, bin Laden finally decided to withdraw from the area.
Bin Laden ordered his bodyguard Aboud to travel to Pakistan, where he bought a plot of land and built a fortified house for his future residence.
Bin Laden's new residence, located 64 kilometres outside Islamabad, Pakistan's capital and less than a mile from the Pakistan Military Academy, is conveniently accessible and densely populated, taking the "black under the lights" to the extreme.
Aboud spent a total of $50,000 on the construction of this residence, the whole house is in the form of a courtyard, there is a yard covering up to one acre, the main building of the house has three floors and four oversized bedrooms, each bedroom has its own bathroom, on the top floor, bin Laden also has a special study and terrace to meet the habit of watching the stars every night.
After moving to the new home, bin Laden and his family began a reclusive life, never using any internet or wireless devices for six years, and bin Laden's only pastime was an unconnected computer and a large number of DVD discs.
According to the U.S. military's report, there were even many pornographic videos found in his home.
During those six years, bin Laden's family almost never left the house.
According to Emmar's recollection, the only time she left the house twice was because she went to the local hospital to give birth, not only to use a fake ID card, but even to pretend to be deaf, and only spent two or three hours in the hospital before she had to rush home.
Although life here is very bad, but the results are also obvious, for a full six years, there is no trace of anything.
In 2010, the CIA spent a bounty of up to $25 million to learn of bin Laden's residence from a "mysterious informant."
In August, panetta, then director of the CIA, immediately ordered full surveillance of bin Laden's secret residence when he learned of the house.
According to the local government's registration, the house is the property owned by "Aboud", which is inhabited by the Abd family and Abud's brother Abraar family, a total of 11 people.
CIA surveillance also found no suspicious people except for the families of Abd and Arbule.
But soon they noticed a strange phenomenon, the two families often walked around the yard, but the two families' residence was fixed in two side annexes, and in rare cases they would go to the main building, and each time they made only a short stay and then left in a hurry.
What's even more bizarre is that the main building has almost no windows, and even the open-air balcony on the top floor is surrounded by high walls on all sides, which is more like a bunker.
In addition, the behavior of the two brothers, Aboud and Aralbour, who have mobile phones, but every time before going home, they will buckle the battery of the mobile phone on the street corner, and sometimes even prefer to run a kilometer to make a call at a public telephone booth.
Although the CIA was still unable to determine whether bin Laden was hiding in the house at this point, they were already at peace.
To avoid striking the snake, they must find evidence of the "presence" of other people in the house before proceeding to the next step.
The trail soon arrived, however, and one Saturday afternoon, when investigators were once again hiding in a nearby high-rise for voyeurism, they were drawn to the clothes drying in the compound.
Among the garments dried on this day, there are large quantities of women's clothing, children's clothing and diapers.
And that amount of clothing far exceeded the amount of clothing that the 11 members of the Arab and Aboud families could wear.
According to the agents' laundry calculations, the extra clothes were perfectly enough for an adult man, several adult women and at least nine children.
According to the intelligence in the hands of the Americans, bin Laden's side included at least two wives and nine children, and this number is a perfect match!
After hiding for more than nine years, they were "betrayed" by their family's clothes!
Faced with this "uncertain" evidence, Obama chose to believe and finally ordered approval of the operation.
The operation was code-named Operation Neptune Spear.
With intelligence support from CIA agents, U.S. Navy SEALs departed from Afghanistan in four helicopters on the night of May 1 to bin Laden's hideout.
From the invasion of the house by the U.S. military to the bullet of bin Laden, the whole process lasted only 30 minutes, and the world's most famous terrorist finally "ambushed".
Because the matter was so absurdly exposed, even at the time, the American media commented: "If bin Laden had thought of buying a dryer for his wife, Obama's decision might never have been made." ”
After bin Laden's death, his wife was also reduced to a prisoner, and in the first period after her imprisonment, the three ladies insisted on being questioned together, and the eldest wife, Khelia, spoke, which can be said to be "united as one".
However, what was unexpected was that later they turned against each other in the cell and engaged in infighting.
At that time, the "three rooms" and "five rooms" questioned each other about betraying their husband bin Laden, and because of this, they fought together, scolding each other and trying to kill each other.
The guards were stunned by this fiery scene, and went forward to force intervention to separate the two.
The "three rooms" Kehelia accused the "five rooms" Emaar of being a spy of the CIA, while "Emaar" countered that "Kehelia" was the real culprit.
Khelia accused Emaar: "You're wrapped around bin Laden like a prostitute, just trying to sleep with him 24 hours a day." ”
Emmar claimed: "It was out of jealousy of me that Hehelia leaked bin Laden's whereabouts to the U.S. special forces and eventually killed bin Laden."
In a leaked transcript of the interrogation, Emaar told the interrogators: "Bin Laden likes me the most, and we often talk about romantic topics — things that have nothing to do with the organization." ”
In the last days of his life, he had become aware that he had been captured by American troops and their allies. He said his death was orchestrated by his wife (Kehelia) or family, but he was ready to face it. ”
The prison guards then issued the latest directive that Hehelia and Emmar should never be left alone in the future, lest they fight again and kill each other.
However, in the face of the mutual criticism of these two people, neither the United States nor Pakistan paid much attention to it, and after hastily interrogating and finding that several people did not have important information, they left.
Legally, bin Laden's wives did not break any law, and their only offense was to follow bin Laden to Pakistan illegally.
Under local law, this entails a month's imprisonment and deportation.
Upon learning of this, the Saudi and Yemeni governments eventually approved the repatriation, agreeing to take in bin Laden's widows and their children.
Atif Khan, a lawyer for bin Laden's wives, also told BBC's News Hours while the case was before the court, "These women are very pleased with the verdict and look forward to being reunited with their families soon." ”
With several people returning home, the question of who betrayed bin Laden was finally settled.
However, "Kehelia's" words are not empty.
Years later, CNN reporter Peter Bergen talked about it in a morning news story about the theme of "bin Laden."
Peter was internationally experienced and had many contacts with bin Laden, and as early as 1997, he conducted an interview with bin Laden himself, which gave him a lot of first-hand information.
Referring to bin Laden's wives, Peter argues that, as is customary for bin Laden, these wives probably do not have much useful information, making it difficult to make a substantial impact on bin Laden's arrest.
But at the same time, Peter admits that at the time, it seemed that there was indeed a wife of bin Laden who had been in contact with the U.S. military and played a "key" role in the pursuit of bin Laden, but he had no way of knowing which one this wife was due to a confidentiality agreement.
There are still many "doubts" hidden in this incident, first of all, bin Laden's youngest wife was the only person injured at the scene during the US military raid on bin Laden's residence.
If according to common sense, since as the "informant" of the CIA, at least she should know something about this operation, even if she does not know the specific time of the US military operation, she will inevitably take certain precautions to avoid being hurt in the operation, but the result is obviously negative.
After returning to Yemen, "Emaar" and her family lived in the small town of Ibrahim, about 100 miles south of the Yemeni capital Sana'a, and as the heat of the incident gradually cooled, the question of "Emaar" gradually decreased, and whether she really assisted the US military in killing bin Laden eventually became a mystery.