The dreaded terrorist Osama Bin Laden was traced in Pakistan by the US Marines and was killed in the shoot out. The question is, how the US got wind of Osama who vanished into thin air for almost a decade. It is said, it was one of his five wives that betrayed him and finally he was traced to Abbottabad in Pakistan. The terrorist leader was eventually killed when US special forces raided the walled compound in Abbottabad on May 2, 2011.

According to the research conducted by a Pakistani retired army officer Brigadier Shaukat Qadir, a frail Osama bin Laden lived out his final days in a poisonous atmosphere cooped up with two wives who suspected a third of plotting his betrayal. Brigadier Qadir pieced together events leading up to the raid from interviews with security officials, transcripts of the interrogation of one of bin Laden's wives, Amal Ahmed Abdel-Fatah al-Sada, by the Pakistanis and rare visits to the compound.

There, the world's most wanted man lived and died on the third floor of the house, where he shared a room with al-Sada, his youngest and favourite wife. A second wife, Siham Saber, used a room across the landing. But their harmonious existence was upset by the arrival early last year of a third wife, Khairiah Saber, the most senior of the three. She moved into a bedroom on the floor below, several months after being freed from custody in Iran. Saber was already deeply jealous of Amal - a Yemeni who was only 19 when she married - and was badgered constantly by bin Laden's son, Khaled, to explain why she had suddenly appeared.

Brigadier Qadir said he was convinced that bin Laden was eventually betrayed by Khairiah. "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," he said. However, his account differs from the version of events by US officials. They say bin Laden was traced through a courier who made a call to a monitored telephone.