Osama Bin Laden's secret compound in Abbottabad show the terror leader had been living in virtual squalor.

Inside Osama's squalid hideaway: New pictures emerge as White House gets set to release Bin Laden home videos

• Shaky footage shows litter-strewn compound in barely habitable state
  
• U.S. may also release home videos found during raid
• House worth no more than $250,000 say experts

Extraordinary footage of Osama Bin Laden's secret compound in Abbottabad show the terror leader had been living in virtual squalor. 

Strewn with rubbish and with paint peeling off the walls, the dirt-infested compound appears barely habitable and is a far cry from initial claims the compound was a sophisticated £1m hideaway.
The ramshackle structure resembles like a building site and the pictures of the outside show steel rods protruding from the roof, suggesting it may have been incomplete.
Of course, some damage would have been caused during the American Navy Seal mission to capture the 9/11 mastermind, but the footage is still very revealing.
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Ramshackle: Osama Bin Laden's secret compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan looks more like a building site than a sophisticated terrorist lair

Rubbish-strewn: With paint peeling off the walls, the dirt-infested compound appears barely habitable and is a far cry from original claims the compound was a sophisticated £1m hideaway

It was released today on the Al Jazeera English website and gives a shaky tour of what appears to be the inside of the main house, a few outbuildings and a small fruitless orchard.
The video emerged as it was revealed that home videos and propaganda tapes that were found in the compound may be released which show Bin Laden strolling around his secret lair.
U.S. officials aid they may even be put out later today.

Squalid: It seems hard to believe the mastermind of 9-11 and countless other terrorist atrocities lived in such conditions

The stash is part of a wealth of information collected during the U.S. raid that killed Bin Laden and four others last week.

The information suggests Bin Laden played a strong role in planning and directing attacks by Al-Qaeda and its affiliates in Yemen and Somalia, two senior officials said.

 

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Information collected in the haul also suggests that top Al-Qaeda commanders and other key insurgents are scattered throughout Pakistan, not just in the rugged border areas as previously though, and are being supported and given sanctuary by Pakistanis.
Despite protests from Pakistan, defeating Al-Qaeda and taking out its senior leaders in Pakistan remains a top U.S. priority, demonstrated by the attempted assassination attempt on the man tipped to replace Bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen on Thursday.

The U.S. remains defiant despite complains from Islamabad that the raid on Bin Laden's compound violated the country's sovereignty, an anonymous senior defense official said yesterday.

Glimpse: The wife of Osama Bin Laden, Amal al-Sadah, pictured right, says she lived with her husband in the same room for the past five years

But the U.S. is bracing itself for retaliation following the assissination with the Taliban in Afghanistan warning that Bin Laden's death will only boost morale of insurgents battling the U.S. and its NATO allies.

Al-Qaeda itself vowed revenge, confirming Bin Laden's death for the first time but issuing a chilling warning that Americans' 'happiness will turn to sadness'.

Following last week's raid, the U.S. has already launched a drone strike into Pakistan as well as the one in Yemen, in the days since bin Laden was killed.

The strikes have been out by pilotless CIA drones as U.S. military and intelligence officials attempt to take advantage of the data they swept up in the raid before insurgents have a chance to change plans or locations.

The raid on Bin Laden's compound deep inside the Pakistan border has further eroded already strained relations between Washington and Islamabad, and angry Pakistani officials have said they want the U.S. to reduce its military presence in their country.

The Pakistani army, while acknowledging it failed to find Bin Laden, said it would review cooperation with the U.S. if there is another similar attack.

Pakistani officials have denied sheltering bin Laden, and they have criticiced the U.S. operation as a violation of their country's sovereignty.

Barely habitable: The ramshackle structure resembles like a building site and the grounds of the compound, shown here, appear to have been dug up and is littered with unidentifiable objects

But a senior defence official said recent protests by Islamabad about the raid will not stop the U.S. from moving against terror leaders that threaten American security.

President Obama has made it clear that the U.S. will take action wherever necessary to root out Al-Qaeda, which has declared war on the United States and has been using Pakistan as a base to plot and direct attacks from there and other insurgent locations around the world.

The official also said there are no plans to scale back U.S. training of the Pakistani frontier corps and army. But the decision is up to Pakistan.

U.S. administration leaders have been careful not to directly accuse the Pakistani government of being complicit in the existence of sanctuaries that have cloaked bin Laden and his lieutenants.

But it strains credibility that the most wanted man in the world could have been hiding there in a large compound without Pakistani officials knowing.

Terror lair: The revealing pictures come as it emerged that home videos and propaganda tapes found in the compound may be released which show Bin Laden strolling around his secret lair

Counter-terrorism officials have debated how big a role Bin Laden and core Al-Qaeda leaders were playing in the attacks launched by affiliated terror groups, particularly Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which is based in Yemen, and al-Shabab in Somalia.

According to officials, information gathered in the compound suggests that Bin Laden was much more involved in directing Al-Qaeda personnel and operations than analysts had thought.

It also suggests bin Laden was 'giving strategic direction' to Al-Qaeda affiliates in Somalia and Yemen, the source said.

Assassination: This picture appears to show a stain, perhaps blood. The images come as Al-Qaeda confirmed Bin Laden's death for the first time, vowed revenge

Officials say they have already learned a great deal from Bin Laden's cache of computers and data, but they would not confirm reports that it yielded clues to the whereabouts of Al-Qaeda deputy Ayman al-Zawahri.

Al-Zawahri is a leading candidate to take bin Laden's place as the leader of the terror group.
On Friday, President Obama with the U.S. commandos who killed Bin Laden.

'Job well done,' the president declared, addressing roughly 2,000 troops after meeting privately with the full assault team - Army helicopter pilots and Navy SEAL commandos - who executed the dangerous raid.

Their identities are kept secret.
Meanwhile, the house - which the U.S. government described as as a $1m mansion in an 'extraordinarily unique compound' in an 'affluent suburb', is in fact worth no more than $250,000 say local experts.
It can be added to the mounting descriptions which have proved incorrect, such as that Bin Laden was armed when killed, and that he had used one of his wives as a human shield.
But two property professionals in Abbottabad said that based on the size of the plot and the house, which was built in 2005, and using recent property sales as a guide, it was worth a quarter of the original estimate at best.
'Twenty million rupees, maximum,' said property dealer Muhammad Anwar, a 22-year veteran of the local market, at his Abbottabad office. 'No swimming pool. This is not a posh area. We call it a middling area.'