Pakistan paints dismal image of bin Laden's end

seen as an aging terrorist hiding in barren rooms, short of money and struggling to maintain his grip on al-Qaida.... Three of bin Laden's wives were living with him in the compound and are being interrogated by Pakistani authorities, who took them into custody after Monday's raid, along with 13 children, eight of them bin Laden's.... One of the wives, identified as Yemeni-born Amal Ahmed Abdullfattah, told interrogators she had been staying in bin Laden's hideout since 2006 and never left the upper floors of the large but sparsely furnished building,... Disputes over money between bin Laden and his No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, led the group to split into two factions five or six years ago.... Bin Laden was "cash strapped" in his final days....