Neighbours talk about men they knew at Osama's mansion
For hours, the local Abbottabad police kept us a fair distance away from the house that Osama bin Laden was killed in.
Every time we tried to set up our camera to film the imposing three-storey white house from a distance, angry officers rushed over to stop us.
Then, in the early afternoon - on whose orders we'll never know - the police allowed the media to get close to the sprawling compound.
Correspondents and camera operators rushed to the tall green gates to start filming – jostling each other for the best position.
Behind them, a stream of neighbours that turned into a flood of curious onlookers; most more interested in the crowd of journalists than in the house the world's most wanted fugitive is believed to have lived for around five years.
During the height of the frenzy, a moment of macabre humour, when a bin Laden look-alike came to the area.
Wearing a long scraggly beard and the white headgear, so synonymous with the al-Qaeda leader, the imposter was greeted with cheers and jeers.
Some of the crowd even started chanting "We are all Osama!" then broke into peals of laughter.
Pashtuns from Peshawar
But the circuslike atmosphere couldn't overshadow the picture that is starting to form of what life was like behind those walls.
Police told us behind the imposing four metre high walls, barbed wire and security cameras, a large vegetable garden, cows, chicken and stores of food - clear signs the compound was relatively self-sufficient for those who lived inside.
Every time we tried to set up our camera to film the imposing three-storey white house from a distance, angry officers rushed over to stop us.
Then, in the early afternoon - on whose orders we'll never know - the police allowed the media to get close to the sprawling compound.
Correspondents and camera operators rushed to the tall green gates to start filming – jostling each other for the best position.
Behind them, a stream of neighbours that turned into a flood of curious onlookers; most more interested in the crowd of journalists than in the house the world's most wanted fugitive is believed to have lived for around five years.
During the height of the frenzy, a moment of macabre humour, when a bin Laden look-alike came to the area.
Wearing a long scraggly beard and the white headgear, so synonymous with the al-Qaeda leader, the imposter was greeted with cheers and jeers.
Some of the crowd even started chanting "We are all Osama!" then broke into peals of laughter.
Pashtuns from Peshawar
But the circuslike atmosphere couldn't overshadow the picture that is starting to form of what life was like behind those walls.
Police told us behind the imposing four metre high walls, barbed wire and security cameras, a large vegetable garden, cows, chicken and stores of food - clear signs the compound was relatively self-sufficient for those who lived inside.
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