US Senator John Kerry, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he would travel to Pakistan early next week "to get a dialogue going about the aftermath, and how we get on the right track."

Kerry said he hoped to resolve some of the puzzles lingering since the Al-Qaeda leader, the world's most wanted man, was finally tracked down to a Pakistani compound after a decade-long global hunt.

"There are some serious questions, obviously, there are some serious issues that we've just got to find a way to resolve together," he told reporters, adding he would raise "all relevant issues" surrounding bin Laden's death.

Bin Laden, the architect of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States in which almost 3,000 people died, was killed in a May 2 raid by US forces on a compound in Abbottabad, just 55 kilometers (35 miles) from Islamabad.

There have been mounting allegations that he evaded capture for years thanks to either the complicity or incompetence of Pakistani officials, since his hideout was close to a military academy and near the homes of retired generals.

AFP