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Suburb of islamabad to capture or kill osama bin laden. the raid was conducted with u.s. military personnel assaulting on two helicopters. the team methodically cleared the compound moving from room to room in an operation lasting nearly 40 minutes. they were engaged in a firefight throughout the operation, and osama bin laden was killed by the assaulting force. in addition to the bin laden family, two other families resided in the compound. one family on the first floor of the bin laden buildin...

The bin laden family lived on the second and third floor of the building in a compound eight times larger than any home in area. families of two trusted couriers lived there as well. the seals working under c.i.a. command found bin laden hiding in his bedroom. his wife identified him. both were shot and killed as he resisted capture. >> here is bin laden who has been calling for the attack, living in the million-dollar plus compound. living in an area thats far removed from the front. hiding beh...

Entered bin ladens compound. >> there was concern that bin laden would oppose the capture operation and indeed he did resist. in the room with bin laden, a woman, bin ladens wife, rushed the u.s. assaulter and was shot in the leg but not killed. bin laden was then shot and killed. he was not armed. >> if he didnt have his hand on a gun, how did he ri sift? >> the information i think resistance doesnt require a firearm. >> did he have any weapon? >> he was not armed, is what i understand to be tr...

And we will hear more about how this mission went down, but wolff, what is the latest coming out of the white house right now? >> well, anderson, they are providing a lot more details. john brennan, a former high ranking official of the cia just spent nearly an hour, and about 45 minutes answering reports questions and providing a wealth of detail. we are scrutinizing all of that information and we are getting a whole lot more coming in not only from the white house, but the pentagon and the sta...

The entire mission. we were not able to find out if that meant that they could see it on video or if they could hear it via audio, but what we do know is that they were following step-by-step as it was playing out in realtime, and a very tense situation that he described how a lot of people there were holding their breaths, and that many of the counter intelligence experts have never been in quite a tense situation like this, and he described that, quote, the minutes passed like days. he said a ...

In general. >> but, jill, there are concerns for years about pakistans intelligence service and the isi in particular, and their relationships with extremist groups, and members of the taliban and other extremist groups, so it is understandable that the u.s. officials would have serious concerns about whether or not to tell pakistani officials. i just talked to former pakistani president pervez musharraf who for years has been denying that osama bin laden has been in pakistan and just as he cont...

Zone. its a militarized zone. so it is just simply not believable to think that some elements, certain elements, people were aware that minute they chose to protect him. >> can i not get enough of the details of this operation and look forward to the days and probably years ahead thank you for being with us. just fascinating to find out how the nuts and bolts work. some day a book will be written about this operation but this

Jumped tens of thousands of followers in 24 hours. live blogging the whole thing, wolf. >> yeah, it is amazing the kind of information that you can pick up on twitter, because it moves so quickly. >> so quickly. >> and it goes indeed all over the world, and you can find out stuff, and who would have thought, i mean, i had not read the tweet in those hours before we all learned of what happened, i would have assumed that some pakistani military helicopters were engaged in some sort of operation, ...

City in pakistan, about a two-hour drive outside of the islamabad, the capital of pakistan. we are watching all of this unfold. anderson cooper is with us, and a lot of reaction coming in from washington and all over the world, but i suspect that cia operatives those directly involved and we may never know their specific names, but they were instrumental along with the navy s.e.a.l.s in getting this job done. >> well no, doubt about it. clearly from the description of the operation, there was a ...

Here and want to be here at least for a little bit today, and a lot of people just talking with each other on the street, taking pictures. i want to show you video from abc news on the aftermath of the raid in that compound in pakistan. the bed was left blood dirks and we are told that osama bin laden was using one of the women, his wife, as a human shield. this according to the authorities and i want to bring in jill dougherty at the state department. what is the latest we are hearing about pak...