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Figured out it was in this area and they looked at the compounds there and this drew their attention because it was three stories high, eight times the size of any other compound and odd the way it was developed, no windows, the residents burned their trash unlike other people in the area, no telephone lanes or internet lines into the compound and they watched this compound. in august they certainly had an indication this is where they thought osama bin laden was and they watched it more careful...

The killing of osama bin laden the top priority. in august after years of work bur our intelligence community i was briefed on a possible lead to osama bin laden. it was far from certain and it took months to run the threat to ground. we had the possibility that osama bin laden was located in a compounds in pakistan and i determined last week we had enough intelligence to go ahead with action. today at my direction the united states launched a targeted operation against the compound in pakistan....

Couriers were going in and out of this compound that we managed to get a dip that in fact he was there. its interesting that he was there, for a long time. and in the, probably one of the largest residential compounds anywhere near the capital of pakistan. and its astonishing that we didnt hear this information from the government. >> this was hardly the cave that many experts sort of thought would have been the end result. what does that say about our relationship with pakistan, that he could h...

Those on the compounds. >> can you talk about what couple takes you mate have found there? was it a bank vault in were you able to potentially get some additional leads out of the information? >> the people on the compounds took advantage of their time there to make sure we were able to acquire whatever material we thought was appropriate. and what was needed. and we are in the process right now of looking as the whatever might have been picked up. but im not going to go into details about what ...

Relief. shay, thank you very much. back to you as we hear more. jon: nato air strikes reduce one of gadhafis compounds to rubble, the alliance is increasingly targeting the libyan leaders regime as fierce battles rage between rebels and government forces. our david lee miller streaming live from the libyan capital of tripoli now. >> reporter: jon, at this hour in the skies over tripoli we can hear off in the distance nato aircraft. so far today we have not heard any explosions, we are not aware ...

Basically side with the rebels and say, weve got to really go in there and help them. but heres lindsey graham, his longtime ally from south carolina, on libya. lets listen to lindsey graham. >> it is leading to a military stalemate. right now, theres just not enough moment by the rebels, even if theyre better armed, to break through to tripoli. theres not deep support for gadhafi. so my recommendation to nato and the administration is to cut the head of the snake off. go to tripoli, start bombi...

Senator lindsey graham called on nato to take gadhafi. >> my recommendation to nato and the u.n. is to take the head off of the snake. bomb gadhafi and their compounds and military headquarters in tripoli. >> i want you to stay with me through the top of the hour, because then we will go live to fred pleitgen who is in the capital of tripoli right now and he has just come back from touring the site of the bombing and one of the residences and he will tell me what he saw specifically and how the ...

As we mentioned nato air strikes hit the compound of libyan leader moammar gadhafi. gadhafi survived, but the latest attack raises the question, is nato trying to kill gadhafi? the obama administration said today, it is not u.s. or coalition policy to assassinate gadhafi to bring about regime change, but some u.s. lawmakers are coming pretty close to advocating just that. here is republican senator lindsey graham. >> my recommendation to nato and the administration is to cut the head of the snak...

Circle. their compounds. their military headquarters in tripoli. the way to get gadhafi to leave is have his inner circle break and turn on him and thats going to take a sustained effort through an air campaign. i think the focus should now be to cut the head of the snake off. thats the quickest way to end this. >> fellow republican john mccain agrees with the call for intensified air strikes in fact hes urging president obama to step up u.s. involvement in nato air strikes. finally, some good...

Weve seen from nato over the past couple of weeks. it was some of the heaviest that weve heard. there were massive blasts late last night, about midnight local time in the area of moammar gadhafis compounds. a house or a building or a structure in that compound was absolutely flattened by those bombs. you can see the pictures on libyan state division and seichus other news agencies of that building just absolutely in shambles and just a bunch of rebel pretty much left. there are media reports th...