[RWebb]

Britain's Channel 4 News:

A local shopkeeper, who sold cigarettes and drinks to men from the compound, said on Tuesday that he did ask himself, "Why have these people built such high walls?" Another man explained that none one of the eight or nine children living inside the high walls "ever played outside, and whenever the neighboring children's ball went into that compound, they would knock on the door and those people would tell them, 'There's no ball here,' and give them money. They wouldn't let them in."

The report also points out that neighbors were aware of the odd fact that the compound had an independent supply of gas and electricity. One young man who spoke to Channel 4 News close to the home on Tuesday said, "Everyone thought that this house was very strange.... these tall walls and... a strange and a very frightening thing: why this [home] had a separate gas connection, why it had a separate electricity connection? It should have had a connection with the Bilal Town [grid], but it had no connection."