Osama bin laden last words dont turn on the light, I have read several books on the take down of UBL last year...now am reading the new one by Peter Bergen. In it he claims UBL was awakened just after midnight by sounds of explosions nearby, and one of his daughters came rushing upstairs to his quarters and asked him what was going on.
All the electricity had been cut to the entire neigborhood (by whom...remains not known), so there was no electricity in the compound. UBL told his daughter to go back down stairs and go to bed.
Then bin Laden's youngest wife Amal who also stayed with him on the 3rd floor evidently made a motion to get up to attempt to turn on the lights, at which point UBL told her "Don't turn on the light." which according to Peter Bergen (the author) were UBL's last words, which I only guess came from the debriefing of Amal afterwards by the Pakistan govt.
Still, it is interesting to know his last spoken words.
Also revealed in the book, that the third floor, the unauthorized addition on to the 2 floor house, had a ceiling which was very low, about 7 feet, and UBL was supposedly six foot four. Also the third floor had windows only one one of it's four sides (not counting the balcony area surrounded by the 7 foot high wall which was on one side). So when the explosions and first helo came crashing down etc, he was partly blinded by his own security arrangements, of having windows only on one side of his 3rd floor lair.
