Martung (Pakistan), June 02: Pakistan has identified the Kuwait-born brothers who were al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden”s main links to the outside world during his stay at Abbottabad.
Bin Laden, who had evaded capture for a decade, was killed on May 2 along with these two men in a top-secret US unilateral military operation in Pakistan’s Abbottabad city.
Pakistani officials told The Wall Street Journal that they had identified the brothers as Abrar and Ibrahim Said Ahmad.
Though the two were raised in Kuwait, they maintained some connections to the small, scenic village of Martung in Pakistan, the officials added.
The Ahmads” family village- a three-hour drive from Abbottabad- is a quiet collection of mud houses scattered along a hillside, surrounded by terraced fields. Its district, Shangla, was a stronghold of Pakistan Taliban insurgents until the extremists were driven out by a military offensive in 2009, the paper said.
Most of the village”s young men have moved away to cities in search of work, residents say.
—–Courtesy:AH