officialses access to the if the country of origin has been asked for permission. >> i think they can offer some atmospherics about what it is like to live there and when they moved in but in terms of operational details about al qaeda, very little. they wouldn't meet any men so if number two in al qaeda was coming back, that's something they wouldn't have seen. >> reporter: the wives have already apparently given some of those atmospheric details however. when asked what the wives have told pakistani authorities, pakistan's ambassador to the u.s. said one of the wives never left the same floor as bin laden because they were paranoid about physical movement. he said they didn't go near windows, didn't have any kind of fresh air. the one wife who was not there, bin laden's first wife, left afghanistan before september