World | Osama bin Laden Bin Laden Did Try to Protect Self Using Wife Al-Qaeda leader acted 'cowardly' before death By Evann Gastaldo Posted May 6, 2011 8:45 AM CDT Copied This frame grab from video obtained by ABC News on May 2, 2011 shows a section of a room in the compound where it is believed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden lived in Abbottabad, Pakistan. (AP Photo/ABC News, File) Just in case you don't already have whiplash from all the times the story has changed, here's the latest: Sources involved in the raid on Osama bin Laden tell Fox News the al-Qaeda leader did, in fact, use his wife as a sort of human shield. Bin Laden seemed "scared" and "completely confused" during the raid and acted in a "cowardly manner," including "shoving his wife" at the Navy SEAL who shot him. The sources add that though only one person killed in the raid was actually carrying a weapon and bin Laden himself was not armed, two weapons were within bin Laden's reach. (He also apparently never went beyond two of the compound's rooms.) Read These Next Formal dining rooms may soon be a thing of the past. She wanted her widowed dad to find love. Just not with this woman. Luddites will rejoice at this return to analog. Evangeline Lilly: I suffered brain damage in fall. Report an error