Front pages headlines from around the country that announce the death of Al-Qaida terror leader Osama bin Laden are seen in front of the Newseum in Washington on May 2, 2011. UPI/Kevin Dietsch | License Photo

U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011. Please note: a classified document seen in this photograph has been obscured. UPI/Pete Souza/White House | License Photo

A close-up of the front covers of two Hebrew newspapers in the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem with headlines announcing the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. special forces in Pakistan, May 3, 2011. UPI/Debbie Hill | License Photo

The backside of the million dollar compound where al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden was hiding is shown surrounded by hills in Abbottabad, Pakistan on May 3, 2011. Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. special forces in a firefight on May 1, 2011. UPI/Sajjad Ali Qureshi | License Photo

At 11.35 last night President Obama announced "the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children." in Washington, DC, on May 1, 2011. This picture of bin Laden was a government exhibit for the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, a confessed al-Qaida conspirator for the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, in April 2006. UPI/FILES | License Photo

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 5 (UPI) -- A family member claims al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was captured alive at his compound in Pakistan and executed on the ground floor of the compound.

Safia bin Laden, one of the terrorist leader's daughters, allegedly told Pakistani interrogators that a special team of U.S. military personnel captured her father alive.


She added that he was initially taken alive but executed at point-blank range on the ground floor of his compound, London's pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat reports.

U.S. President Barack Obama announced that bin Laden was killed early Monday during a firefight at a fortified compound near one of Pakistan's elite military academies.

The narrative of the assault has evolved, however, and conspiracy theories are developing as the Obama administration refuses to release photographic evidence that bin Laden is dead.

The narrative provided by the White House says bin Laden was killed apparently on the second or third floor of the compound. He wasn't armed at the time.

White House spokesman Jay Carney offered a careful account of the weekend events at the bin Laden compound but warned the details were highly secretive.

"We've made a great deal available to the public in remarkable time," he said. "We're talking about the most highly classified operation that this government has undertaken in many, many years."