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Bin Laden house: 'Blow it up'

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Pakistan's government is rumoured to be debating whether to blow up the house in Abbottabad where Osama Bin Laden was killed, in order to avoid it becoming a shrine.

The historian Antony Beevor and Rory Stewart MP, who was a diplomat in Afghanistan, discuss the historical precedents for taking such action.


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