Another Reason To Hate Bin Laden (Especially In A Heat Wave): He Hogged The A/C

Among the wonderful tidbits U.S. officials have discovered sifting through the materials seized in Osama bin Laden‘s Pakistan compound is this: he totally hogged the house’s one-and-only air conditioner. “Bin Laden’s rooms did have the only air conditioner in the compound, in a region where summer temperatures can top 100 degrees,” reports the Associated Press. Oh, you bastard.

Consider that as temperatures on the East Coast of the U.S. rise well into the 90s today. The Al Qaeda leader would sit in his nicely chilled room–possibly watching porn–while his soldiers, defenders and family sweltered. Oh, and of course he planned terror attacks in his spare time. And in the winter? No heat, just blankets, which–shocker–usually seemed to end up around bin Laden’s shoulders. The terror chief seems to have had the best of a lousy living arrangement:

Pakistani officials described the emerging picture of life inside the compound. One official described it as bleak, almost prison-like in its austerity.

Some of the roughly two dozen surviving residents told Pakistani intelligence they subsisted on a weekly delivery of one goat, which they slaughtered inside the compound, plus milk from a couple of cows kept in the courtyard. There were also eggs from chickens that roamed the courtyard and vegetables from a small kitchen garden.

(h/t The Atlantic Wire)

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