Russian-made arms found in Osama hideout

The inquiry commission investigating the US raid on the Abbottabad residence of Osama bin Laden has learnt that Russian-made weapons were found in the compound. Informed sources told on Thursday that the weapons were found in a cupboard of Osama bin Laden. According to them, only one casing of a used bullet was found. The commission is reported to have almost completed its report which is likely to be submitted to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in a couple of days. The commission was informed, the sources said, that computers and more than 200,000 documents had been recovered from the house of the former Al Qaeda chief. There were about a dozen accomplices of Osama bin Laden in the compound when it was raided by US commandos, but only one bullet was fired. And there were no marks of bullets in the walls of the house, the report claimed. The report raises several questions. Why the guards of Osama bin Laden did not retaliate when the US troops attacked them and why only one casing of a bullet was found in the compound. Some residents of the Bilal Town, where the house was located, said they had heard sounds of heavy firing and even bombing during the late-night operation. Some of them said they even entered the house of Osama bin Laden when the US forces had left, but there was no body inside. Later, Pakistani forces took over the place and banned people from entering it.