Osama's hideout surrounded by pot

06 May,2011 07:54 AM IST |   |  Agencies

Osama bin Laden spent his last six years as high as a kite, it has been revealed


Osama bin Laden spent his last six years as high as a kite, it has been revealed. Every day the laid-back terror mastermind breathed in cannabis growing all around hisu00a0 mansion. And he is rumoured to have enjoyed the occasional roll-up or two. The world's most wanted man had all he needed as he enjoyed a self-sufficient lifestyle behind the 18ft walls of his home.


Good life: Osama used to grow vegetables on his land and smoked
weed. Pic/AFP


He kept chickens and goats and grew his own vegetables in a vast kitchen garden packed with potatoes, wheat, cabbages and cauliflower. As well as tending to his plot, he relaxed by breathing in the waft of wild cannabis growing in the walls. None of his neighbours had any idea bin Laden was shacked up in the ufffd1million house. A woman hired to cook and clean never saw the reclusive owner, who locals believed made his riches trading gold.The family burned their rubbish. Neighbour Mohammed Qasim said: "No guests ever went in.''

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Osama bin Laden Mohammed Qasim neighbour grow vegetables smoked