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Main house with few windows and a third floor terrorist with a seven foot high privacy wall. a tall man had been spotted facing in the compounds yard, doing prison yard walks. >> there was nothing that confirmed that bin laden was at that compound. when president obama was faced with the opportunity to act upon this, the president had to evaluate the strength of the information and then made what i believe was the most gutsiest calls of any president in recent memory. >> the commando team faced ...

>> this compound was the home of osama bin ladens most trusted courier, a kuwaiti. the sprawling complex had protective walls as high as 18 feet, two security gates, a series of internal walls and main house with few windows and a third floor terrorist with a seven foot high privacy wall. a tall man had been spotted facing in the compounds yard, doing prison yard walks. >> there was nothing that confirmed that bin laden was at that compound. when president obama was faced with the opportunity to...

I bet a lot of us never imagined that a dog would have been part of the commando team that stormed osama bin ladens compound. in fact, the pentagon spends a lot of money to train dogs to perform tasks like bomb detection, which saves the lives of servicemen and women on the battlefield. we know this much about the dog that took part in the raid. it was in ft. campbell today and got the meet the president with the other s.e.a.l.s. >> reporter: just as the navy s.e.a.l.s who led the daring raid ha...

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You didnt blame little john or meatloaf h you fir meatloaf, you fired gary busey. and these are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night. >> i mean -- >> talk about a poker face. >> and in retrospect these are the kinds of decision that is would keep me up at night when the president of the united states was considering what the commando team in action were going through. >> and the irony of the fact that 24 hours late er the covere of barack obama, at least the run up to him announc...

Operation that killed osama bin laden as a surgical raid, a small commando team fighting its way through the compound. president obama and his security team followed every anxious moment. cnn pentagon correspondent chris lawrence takes us through the operation step by step. >> reporter: the three-storied building built about six years ago. a bin laden protege and his brother lived on the first floor of the main building and another house in the compound. bin ladens family occupied the top two fl...

Decision, even though there was some in the national security team pushing back against it, they did not know that osama bin laden was physically present there. they had a very high degree of certainty on the intelligence, we believe that the cia was pushing hard to make that assumption, but that really was -- that was first gutsy decision and then the decision to not bomb the place to smithereens, to actually go in with a commando team so that they could get him and get the intelligence. >> rep...

Bagram air force base. they identified him. his name was joseph klaus. and klaus, in fact, had identified himself. he had given public interviews saying he was the interrogator at bagram who questioned omar khadr but for that reason because the reporters were excluded for publishing what was public information. theres just so much around here. i mean, to me among the most absurd, surreal aspects is all the restrictions on what you can take pictures of. you cant take pictures of the coastline her...

Bagram air force base. they identified him. his name was joseph klaus. and klaus in fact had identified himself. he had given public interviews saying he was the interrogator at bagram who questioned omar khadr but for that reason because the reporters were excluded for publishing what was public information. theres just so much around here. to be among the most absurd surreal aspects is all the restrictions on what you can take pictures of. you cant take pictures of the coastline here at guanta...

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