Duh kumbe Osama mwoga alipenda kutoa uhai wa watu wasio na hatia ilipofika zamu yake anamtumia mkewe kama kinga.
Osama used wife as shield
OSAMA Bin Laden was last night revealed to have been shot dead after cowering behind his youngest wife as US Navy Seals swooped on his secret mansion.
The "human shield" - who was wounded herself - had given away his identity by shouting out his name.
He was blasted to death with a bullet between the eyes after two dozen of America's elite Special Forces slid 50ft down ropes from helicopters into his compound.
Video: Inside the Bin Laden compound
GRAPHIC pictures have been released from within the mastermind's hideout
Forty minutes later - in a covert night mission which was the culmination of a four-year intelligence operation - they were whisked away again with the terror chief's corpse.
Their orders had been to take the planet's most wanted fugitive dead or alive. But a US security official said: "The operating assumption was that Bin Laden would put up a fight - which he did."
The al-Qaeda leader was trying to escape by using his wife, Yemeni-born Amal Ahmed al-Sadah, 27, as cover amid a raging gun battle.
He was believed to have been in a bedroom of his fortress-like million-dollar luxury compound north of Pakistan's capital Islamabad.
The Navy Seal who shot him recognised the world's public enemy No1 as Amal gave him away. A second bullet was pumped into his chest for good measure.
Damaged ... wreckage is strewn across a room in the compound after the Seals' raid
Hours later President Barack Obama went on TV after the corpse was positively identified by DNA, then buried at sea to leave no grave that could become a shrine to evil.
The US leader declared in his dramatic broadcast at 4am our time yesterday that the ten-year hunt for the mastermind of the 9/11 atrocities that killed around 3,000 in New York's Twin Towers was over.
He said: "Justice has been done."
One of Bin Laden's 11 sons - Khalid, who is believed to be in his 20s - died with the 54-year-old monster in his lavish hideout.
Two of the maniac's henchmen, both of whom had acted as his link to the outside world, were also killed in what the President described as a "fierce firefight".
Coward's bolthole ... blood on floor by bed, and bottles of pills found inside Bin Laden's house
Two wounded women were taken from the compound in an ambulance, along with four children. Bin Laden's daughter Safia was among those arrested.
By then the Navy Seals were long gone - leaving one of their four helicopters behind in flames after blowing it up when it crashed with a fault.
They had practised the daring mission - given the green light by the President on Friday - using a full-scale mock-up of the sprawling compound.
Two Black Hawk helicopters were accompanied by two Chinooks as they took off from the US base at Ghaza in north-west Pakistan at 1.15am local time on Sunday.
The end ... compound where Bin Laden was finally cornered by US troops and killed
It was one of the Chinooks that crashed on the compound in Abbottabad - a smart city 65 miles north of Islamabad. Two of the copters hovered for a few seconds over the compound as they disgorged their teams of Seals.
Bin Laden's men grabbed rocket launchers to try to fend them off.
Neighbour Mohammed Haroon Rasheed said: "I heard a thundering sound followed by heavy firing. It suddenly stopped. Then more thundering - then a big blast."
A US official said of the crashed helicopter: "The aircraft was destroyed by the crew - and the assault force and crew members boarded the remaining aircraft to exit the compound."
Destroyed ... crashed helicopter
President Obama had gathered his generals in the White House "Situation Room" to listen to every second of the operation - also watching live footage from the troops' helmet cameras.
He had considered sending B2 Stealth bombers to obliterate the compound - but ruled that out to avoid civilian casualties among the 22 people known to be there.
The raid was originally planned for Saturday night but the weather forced it to be pushed back 24 hours. CIA chief Leon Panetta was entrusted with overseeing the mission.
His conference room at the CIA's HQ in Virginia was turned into a command centre - and erupted in cheers as Bin Laden was confirmed dead.
Toy ... kid's car in complex
The President's counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan said Bin Laden's wife was "used as a shield - whether or not Bin Laden or the son or whatever put her there or she put herself there".
He added: "It was an effort to shield Bin Laden from incoming fire." Amal - the mother of one of his children - married the terror chief when she was just 17.
Mr Brennan hailed the death of Bin Laden as "decapitating the head of the snake known as al-Qaeda". Jubilant Americans flocked to the White House and took to New York's streets to celebrate.
Atrocity ... jet blasts the World Trade Center
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CIA boss Panetta declared: "We have rid the world of the most infamous terrorist of our time." But he warned "terrorists almost certainly will attempt to avenge".
Last night images from inside Bin Laden's blood-spattered lair were released. He may have been living there for up to six years - while many believed he was either dead or skulking in caves.
Pakistan was not told of the raid until afterwards amid incredulity that the country was unaware of Bin Laden's purpose-built base - close to Pakistan's equivalent of Sandhurst. A neighbour said: "It was like a fort."
Early today Mr Obama was given a standing ovation at a White House dinner. He saluted the "heroes" who had killed Bin Laden.
Earlier he said: "The world's a safer place. It is a better place because of the death of Osama Bin Laden."