Osama bin Laden’s youngest wife is expected to leave Pakistan for her homeland, Yemen, within days, Saudi news paper claimed on Wednesday.
Amal Ahmed al-Sadah, 29, has been held by Pakistani security services since US Special Forces killed bin Laden whom she married in 1999.
Sadah was wounded in the operation and detained by Pakistani authorities in the compound in the northern garrison town of Abbottabad where her husband was hiding. She is believed to have been questioned by US intelligence services.
Reports in newspapers in Saudi Arabia, confirmed by officials in Riyadh, indicate that arrangements have been finalised between Yemeni and Pakistani diplomats for the return of Sadah and her 12-year-old daughter, Safiya, who was also injured in the raid.
Officials in Riyadh confirmed that at least theoretically, there was no objection to their return to Saudi Arabia.