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In this photo taken Thursday, March 8, Afghan refugees gather outside a house in Haripur, Pakistan, that Pakistan's intelligence agency believes Osama bin Laden lived in for nearly a year until he moved into the villa where he was eventually killed. The home in the frontier town of Haripur was used by bin Laden while he waited for construction crews to finish his new home in the garrison town of Abbottabad, just 18 miles away. The graffiti at right reads, "journey with persistence in light and congregation in Punjab Universality Lahore called by an Islamic students group Islami Jamaiat Tulba, Haripur."

Details emerge about bin Laden's other residences

The details of bin Laden's life as a fugitive — which were first published by the Pakistani newspaper Dawn — raise fresh questions over how bin Laden was able to remain undetected for so long in Pakistan after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, despite being the subject of a massive international manhunt.

Yet a senior U.S. official, who is familiar with the contents recovered in bin Laden's Abbottabad house, said there was no evidence that Pakistani officials were aware of bin Laden's presence. "There was no smoking gun. We didn't find anything," he said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the contents of the Abbottabad house

According to the interrogation report, bin Laden lived in five safe houses and fathered four children — the two youngest born in a public hospital in Abbotabad. But investigators have only located the houses in Abbottabad and Haripur.

-- Reported by the Associated Press

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