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Looking at images of himself. its a different image than some of his followers would have been used to, but its not going to alter their perception of osama bin laden. it wasnt like it was look at a flat screen and he was on some sort of guilded chair, so i dont think it will dramatically alter the image of bin laden. >> paul, what does this tell you, though, about his media strategy and how perhaps attached he was to his own image. >> well, it illustrates how important the media strategy really...

>> reporter: based on the timing the audiotape was already in the pipeline. they anticipated that his operatives would move up or rush along the message so it could be along in a more timely fashion. it has been a very, very long time since the u.s. intelligence community commented on the audiotape because they are not seeing as containing any call to arms or coded messages. that was an interpretation immediately after 9/11. by thats no longer been the case for some time. bill: does the intellig...

Begs the question, what did pakistan know about bin laden, and how long did they know it. well, today, a house subcommittee will hold a hearing to try to find out some of these answers. pakistan denies knowing anything about bin ladens whereabouts, the president of that country, writing an op-ed for "the washington post" this morning, titled "pakistan did its part". much more on these questions throughout the newsroom this morning. meanwhile, new concerns over the next generation of al-qaeda a...

How did what happened yesterday reflect or not reflect what you imagined? >> truthfully, i never imagined a million times. i never imagined it once. because i didnt like to think about bin laden. you know, when they put out his audiotapes, the videos in the early years were put out, i never wanted to watch them. i mean, this was the man who orchestrated the death of thousands of people, and i didnt want to have him in my head, much less my life. alisyn: i know that victims hate the word closure,...

Alive. well, yesterday almost ten years after the deadly attacks on t t september 11th, 2001, the al qaeda leader was killed inside a mansion in abbottabad, pakistan. it they swept into the compound by helicopter and bin laden was among the five killed. so what does his death mean for the future of al qaeda? a lot of folks are asking that. joining us now from the time warner center here in new york, cnn terrorism analyst. paul, appreciate you being on the show. first, with bin laden dead, whats ...

Knows how were going to replace you. this is for you and your beautiful memory, and for all those people you helped and saved. ♪ >> youre watching "world one" live from london. im zain verjee. >> im monita raj pal. right now on this "american morning," a shocking development in one of the busiest airports. weve got audiotapes as two pilots attempt to land with no one in the control tower. apparently its not the first time thats happened. theres a run on bottled watered in tokyo. store shel...

Attorneys, look, the government came at these guys with audiotapes. they have testimony of former aides. they had all kinds of stuff in there. his brother was on trial. they talked about possibly putting blagojevich himself, former governor, on the stand. they only were able to convict him on one of these counts giving a false statement to a federal official? trust me. the defense will likely treat this as saying i told you. they dont have enough. they didnt have enough. this guy simply talked a...

Or cannot reach a verdict. >> does it surprise you given the nature of this case how much evidence there was, even just the amount of audiotapes that were involved in this, that its taking them a while. >> its not surprising, based on the quantity of evidence, based on the audiotapes and based on the complicatedness of the rico charges. the racketeering charges go on for pages and pages. theyre difficult for lawyers and judges to understand, let alone lay jurors, so i think we should all be happ...

Get out and you can get back to your home base, that can be difficult because the weather closed in behind you. so, the weather as you mentioned is going to be a central theme as they try to look at what happened here. >> we were hearing earlier, tom, as people described these planes as part of the way of life up there. the taxies, theyre the buses. theyre how everybody gets around. coming up at the half hour, well talk to the former press secretary and chief of staff for senator ted stevens. ...

The legal batable between mel gibson and his ex-girlfriend just gets uglier. gibson met with detectives in los angeles but not over the allegations that he punched her, an episode we heard them talking about on the now infamous taped phone calls. instead, gibson turned over e-mails and text messages to support his claim that she tried to extort money from him. in exchange, then she wouldnt release those damaging audiotapes. tmz said gibson wouldnt talk about the allegations of abuse to detective...