Bin Laden’s Sudan home left empty over attack fears

No one wanted to live there after the fighter moved out for fear it could become a target. “The house has been empty since he left,” said a former neighbor to Bin Laden. “Nobody wanted to live where Osama had lived. Only some foreigners came but left after one month when they had heard Osama had lived here,” said the man who, like others, did not want to be named. Tenants feared Washington might bomb it, he said. In 1998, the United States fired missiles at El Shifa medicine factory in Khartoum. US officials said it was producing chemical weapons ingredients and was partly owned by Bin Laden. Sudan insisted it was only making pharmaceutical drugs.