 As early as 2004 , agents working for Afghan intelligence determined that Bin Laden was living in a major settled area in Pakistan proper , rather than the semi @-@ autonomous tribal areas on the Afghan @-@ Pakistan border , Amrullah Saleh told The Guardian . Leading Saleh and Afghan intelligence to that conclusion were " thousands of interrogation reports " and the assumption that Bin Laden " a millionaire with multiple wives and no background of toughness would not be living in a tent " . " I was pretty sure he was in the settled areas of Pakistan because in 2005 it was still very easy to infiltrate the tribal areas , and we had massive numbers of informants there . They could find any Arab but not Bin Laden . " 
