Family of man who demolished home of world’s most wanted man still live in fear.
Shakeel Ahmad Yusufzai cuts a defiant figure in the genteel Pakistani town of Abbottabad. He is the man who demolished Osama bin Laden’s house and despite Taliban death threats, says that he is proud of what he did.
Yusufzai paid the government around 400000 rupees ($4,500) for the contract to demolish the compound where the Al Qaeda Chief hid for around six years and to salvage building materials from it.
The high-walled three-storey house was flattened in February and now Yusufzai gives away bricks to curious souvenir-hunters from all over Pakistan.
Yusufzai hoped to make a profit on material recovered from the site but said he lost money despite taking away 12 tonnes of scrap metal from the buildings.
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