<p>The official from the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency said up to 12 women and children who survived the US raid on their villa were now in custody.<br /><br />The child, reported to be 12 years old, "was the one who confirmed to us that Osama was dead and shot and taken away," said the official.<br /><br />Four bodies were retrieved from the daring covert attack, including one of bin Laden's sons, said the official, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity.<br /><br />Up to three women and nine children, including the young Yemeni woman who was shot in the leg and a daughter of the Saudi-born mastermind, are in detention, he said.<br />Intelligence officials said the group were being interrogated.<br /><br />"There are a lot of questions we want to ask them," another official said.<br />The Pakistani government yesterday said that family members of bin Laden were "being looked after" and would be handed over to their countries of origin.<br /><br />The ISI official said Pakistan had shared intelligence with US agents as early as 2009, which ultimately led to the compound where bin Laden was killed early Monday.<br />Islamabad is under pressure to explain how al-Qaeda's top man had been able to live undetected for months right by the country's military training centre, before he was killed by US Navy SEALS.<br /><br />Pakistan's top foreign ministry official, Salman Bashir, earlier told the BBC: "We had indicated this compound as far back as 2009 as a possible place".<br /><br />The ISI official told AFP that its agents had raided the house in 2003 in a failed operation to find al-Qaeda number three Abu Faraj al-Libbi, before the compound "slipped from our radar".<br /><br />Clarifying Bashir's comments today, the ISI official said that intelligence provided in 2009 did not directly relate to the suspect compound.<br /><br />"The intelligence that was provided eventually led the Americans to that compound (but) our information that was provided did not lead us directly to that," he said.<br /><br />A US official on Monday told AFP that three other men and a woman were killed in the operation.|<br /><br />Two of the men worked as trusted couriers for bin Laden and the third was believed to be an adult son, the official said.</p>
<p>The official from the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency said up to 12 women and children who survived the US raid on their villa were now in custody.<br /><br />The child, reported to be 12 years old, "was the one who confirmed to us that Osama was dead and shot and taken away," said the official.<br /><br />Four bodies were retrieved from the daring covert attack, including one of bin Laden's sons, said the official, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity.<br /><br />Up to three women and nine children, including the young Yemeni woman who was shot in the leg and a daughter of the Saudi-born mastermind, are in detention, he said.<br />Intelligence officials said the group were being interrogated.<br /><br />"There are a lot of questions we want to ask them," another official said.<br />The Pakistani government yesterday said that family members of bin Laden were "being looked after" and would be handed over to their countries of origin.<br /><br />The ISI official said Pakistan had shared intelligence with US agents as early as 2009, which ultimately led to the compound where bin Laden was killed early Monday.<br />Islamabad is under pressure to explain how al-Qaeda's top man had been able to live undetected for months right by the country's military training centre, before he was killed by US Navy SEALS.<br /><br />Pakistan's top foreign ministry official, Salman Bashir, earlier told the BBC: "We had indicated this compound as far back as 2009 as a possible place".<br /><br />The ISI official told AFP that its agents had raided the house in 2003 in a failed operation to find al-Qaeda number three Abu Faraj al-Libbi, before the compound "slipped from our radar".<br /><br />Clarifying Bashir's comments today, the ISI official said that intelligence provided in 2009 did not directly relate to the suspect compound.<br /><br />"The intelligence that was provided eventually led the Americans to that compound (but) our information that was provided did not lead us directly to that," he said.<br /><br />A US official on Monday told AFP that three other men and a woman were killed in the operation.|<br /><br />Two of the men worked as trusted couriers for bin Laden and the third was believed to be an adult son, the official said.</p>