Shaukat Qadir, 62, a former infantry commander, spent thousands of dollars of his own money and eight months of investigation putting together his report because he was suspicious of official explanations of bin Laden's life and death, the Times reports. Bin Laden was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011, by U.S. forces.
Among Qadir's claims:
•Bin Laden's fifth

wife, Amal Ahmed al-Sadah, told Pakistani interrogators that her husband underwent a kidney transplant in 2002, a claim that raises questions about who was helping him.
•Another bin Laden wife told interrogators that her husband shaved his beard

and disguised himself as a Pashtun tribal elder as he traveled between safe houses before settling in a house in Abottabad, Pakistan, in 2005.
•Al-Qaeda operatives betrayed bin Laden

for reward money from the United States. "They wanted bin Laden gone, and they wanted a share of the $25 million," Qadir says.
Qadir's army background has helped in his research. The military granted him permission for two visits to the house in Abbottabad, the Times reports. He also was granted an interview with a military official who interviewed bin Laden's three wives.
In the meantime, a government-organized group known as the Abbottabad Commission has been working to collect details about how bin Laden managed to elude authorities and survive, according to the Times. The group is led by a Supreme Court judge and has been working since May. The publication of findings, originally slated for December, has been repeatedly postponed,

the Times reports.
Qadir's work has come under criticism because of its heavy reliance on Pakistani military and intelligence sources.
Terrorism analyst Peter Bergen, author of an upcoming book detailing bin Laden's last years, is condemning Qadir's claims. Qadir's report is "larded with strange conspiracies," Bergen says. "When I was in Abbottabad in July, plenty of people told me bin Laden didn't live there," Bergen says. "What do you say to that?"
Qadir concedes some of his claims are based on conjecture and admits some of his military and government sources may have hidden some facts. "I'd be a bloody fool if I didn't see that," he says.