Bin Laden videos show life in his lair

Clips from the al-Qaida leader’s ‘home videos’ show him obsessively watching himself on TV news programmes Home videos of Osama bin Laden seized from the Pakistani compound where he was killed have been released by the Pentagon last night. One tape shows him preparing a video message addressed to the United States while in another Bin Laden, looking like an elderly grandfather with a cap on his head and blanket around his shoulders, holds a TV remote control in his hide-out and watches himself on television. The videos offer the world a tiny glimpse of Bin Laden’s life on the run. The most extraordinary video shows the elderly terrorist in a very different way to normal glimpses of al-Qaida’s dead leader. Gone is the gun-toting rebel or the scholarly sheikh dictating messages to

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