'Osama struggled to keep his 2 'exhausted' bodyguards in Pak'

March 04, 2016 05:09

In the last months of his life, Osama bin Laden was a worried man as he was in a serious dispute with the two brothers who had been his bodyguards and the only link to the outside world from his hideout in

Pakistan, according to newly declassified files.

According to letters released by the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence that were recovered during the US Navy SEAL raid on bin Laden's hideout in the Pakistani garrison city of Abbottabad, by early 2011 the brothers were fed up with all the pressure that came from protecting and serving the world's most wanted terrorist.

The brothers -- Abu Muhammad and Abu Khalid -- were two longtime members of al-Qaeda whose family hailed from northern Pakistan, not far from where bin Laden was hiding in the garisson city of Abbottabad. They did everything for the 54-year-old al-Qaeda chief before he was killed in the raid on May 2, 2011.

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