Osama Bin Laden Enjoyed The 'Good Life' In His Final Years

Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is seen in this undated video image, released by the U.S. on Saturday, May 7, 2011.

Bin Laden Lived Life Of 'Domestic Bliss' In Final Years -- CTV

During the six years that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden lived secretly in a walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, he maintained a quiet life of relative domestic bliss, while at the same time attempting to micromanage a once-powerful militant empire.

That's according to Peter Bergen, author of "Manhunt: The Decade-Long Hunt for Osama bin Laden," the new book released Tuesday on the one-year anniversary of bin Laden's death at the hands of a U.S. Navy SEAL team in Pakistan.

Bergen, a journalist and security analyst met bin Laden in a mud hut in 1997 in Afghanistan and then spent 15 years reporting on his life. He was also the only journalist and independent observer to have been allowed access to the bin Laden compound before it was demolished in early 2012

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My Comment: When Bin Laden heard the commotion of the soldiers rushing into his home must have been the moment that he realized that everything was coming to an end for him .... that for him the life that he had lived was finally coming to an end.