In 2008, Christiane Amanpour said she had a very close friend in intelligence who told her that Osama bin Laden was in a comfortable villa in Pakistan.

"I just talked to somebody very knowledgeable … that thinks that he's in a villa, a nice comfortable villa in Pakistan" Amanpour revealed on the October 3, 2008 edition of "Real Time" with Bill Maher. Amanpour appears to cite a woman in American Intelligence as the source.