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Identifying bin laden. we know from other sources, not from the briefing today. reported by bob woodward and the washington post this morning and confirmed with other sources that one of the things that the navy seals did not have on them, when they, after he was killed and they were trying to be, you know, they were looking at the body and taking certain measurements was a tape measure. they didnt have a tape measure so one of the fields reportedly lay down next to bin laden so they could get s...

Also that you understand the consequences of failing. >> well, they did not fail sunday, because they had mock compounds set up on the coast, and the team didnt know that bin laden was the target until late in the mission, and how do you train for these kinds of mission in abottabad? >> well, these guys are war-hardened veterans, and we have been at this for ten years and they have been involved in hundreds of operations of seizing compounds and albeit never the number one target, but a number o...

In many ways. the united states needs pakistan to get the taliban to the negotiating table in afghanistan, to get to negotiate a settlement there, to help united states forces to leave afghanistan. on the streets here, theres mixed feelings. theres mistrust with their own government. many dont believe bin laden was in the compound. that this is a story put out by the united states and by their own government here. there are many other people here who say, look, bin laden could have got away livi...

Certainly using computers to get out his message. either audio messages or video messages. so it may have been part of that mechanism as well. >> nic, given all what youve found out out there, is it credible that no one at any high government level or military level in pakistan had a clue that bin laden was in this compound? >> reporter: i think the best clues we have come from the neighbors. described how they view this family and the family was very secretive. but just to give you another idea...

Cant shoot them. get them out of the way. took a little time getting those guys flex cuffed and take care of the innocent and getting past the barricades. >> amazing thing here is the amount of time they appeared to have had, months to build this replica of the compound so is it always the case where you have that kind of time or obviously that paid off for them in situation. >> definitely paid off for them. thats usually not the case. everything is intelligence driven. in somalia, we hit multip...

And what about those neighbors? we are learning new information about the compound. dominic di-natale joins us. what do the neighbors say? was anything unusual about who lived there? >> >> yeah. they were very suspicious about the people living inside the compound. it was one reason for that. neighbors that would knock on the door. in one particular case it was somebody handing out polio vaccines to the 23 children who lived inside the compounds. they saw some suvs commented on them and. suvs co...

Who did he live with? and what about those neighbors? we are learning new information about the compound. dominic di-natale joins us. what do the neighbors say? was anything unusual about who lived there? >> >> yeah. they were very suspicious about the people living inside the compound. it was one reason for that. neighbors that would knock on the door. in one particular case it was somebody handing out polio vaccines to the 23 children who lived inside the compounds. they saw some suvs commente...

Osama bin ladens children? >> reporter: it may have been his grandchildren. it is not completely clear. they say the raid was a surgical strike with little room for mistakes. barbara starr is at the pentagon with a closer look at the special opes mission and you have new details this morning. tell us. >> reporter: first, we want to start off by showing everybody a photograph. this was the u.s. helicopter left behind by the americans basically hanging on a fence wrecked. it suffered mechanical ...

Member who took the shot, that was the best judgment. i defy anybody to start second-guessing the soldiers who went in to conduct this operation. >> we learned that there were many, many dry runs also within the united states and fake compounds built on both coasts where they were doing dry runs, and didnt even know who the target would be until much later on, so as a navy s.e.a.l. walking into the mission on this day on sunday, how much do they know versus how much is simply surprise? >> right....

>> thats some interesting information, the fact it affects nav gable rivers, could affect things you buy or get shipped to you, and the farm belt, some of the farmers wont be able to grow things. weve seen food prices pushing up. well keep an eye on that as well as the flooding. want to show you a closer look at this compound weve been talking about where the most wanted man was hiding for the past few years. pakistan, afghanistan. this is the area in the middle the sort of govern -- ungoverned ...