The woman who the White House said lunged at a Navy SEAL in a desperate attempt to protect Osama bin Laden has been identified as the terror lord's youngest wife.
The woman -- identified by a passport found inside the al Qaeda leader's Pakistani compound as 29-year-old Amal Ahmed Abdul Fatah -- was in the room when commandos shot bin Laden, ABC News reported today on its website.
Fatah was shot in the leg and later taken into custody in Pakistan, officials said.

Fatah, who is bin Laden's fifth wife and the only one living with him in the house, had "been gifted" to the al Qaeda leader from a Yemeni family when she was just a teenager, ABC News reported.

She and bin Laden have had three children with him. Of his other four wives, he had divorced one and three had moved to Syria.
In initial accounts of the firefight, White House officials claimed bin Laden was armed with a rifle and had used his wife as a "human shield" during Sunday's raid.
White House press secretary Jay Carney confirmed more details of bin Laden's death on Tuesday, saying the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks was not armed.
With AP

The woman who the White House said lunged at a Navy SEAL in a desperate attempt to protect Osama bin Laden has been identified as the terror lord's youngest wife.
The woman -- identified by a passport found inside the al Qaeda leader's Pakistani compound as 29-year-old Amal Ahmed Abdul Fatah -- was in the room when commandos shot bin Laden, ABC News reported today on its website.
Fatah was shot in the leg and later taken into custody in Pakistan, officials said.

Fatah, who is bin Laden's fifth wife and the only one living with him in the house, had "been gifted" to the al Qaeda leader from a Yemeni family when she was just a teenager, ABC News reported.

She and bin Laden have had three children with him. Of his other four wives, he had divorced one and three had moved to Syria.
In initial accounts of the firefight, White House officials claimed bin Laden was armed with a rifle and had used his wife as a "human shield" during Sunday's raid.
White House press secretary Jay Carney confirmed more details of bin Laden's death on Tuesday, saying the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks was not armed.
With AP