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Years ago. frankly, today could be the most significant day since the ten-year war began. good morning to you, as well. >> nice to see you, it feels like that significant of a day. >>alisyn: we start with a daring operation, the nighttime raid at the $1 million compound where osama bin laden was living. two dozen elite navy seals dropped down from helicopters into the 18 high walls compounds. this was on president obamas order. there was a firefight. a military official asked osama bin laden to ...

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Navy s.e.a.l.s. we saw this picture. it looks like the tail of it stuck on the back of one of the compounds. i was speaking with someone who said that doesnt look like a blackhawk to me. now we learn its a very different helo thats been used in past operations, correct? >> it is. its a modified blackhawk, an attempt to reduce its radar signature, harder to detect on radar and also reduce the noise that their rotors make. special operations forces have had these kinds of stealth helicopters for m...

Delayed it. and we are told it started at 3:30 p.m. eastern time on sunday may 1st and the navy seals, a squadron of seals were dropped into the compounds and the most dramatic moment according to john brennan was when they saw the blackhawk ill corporate not be able to lift off, they just dropped the navy seals into the compound and we are told the seals had to go room to room in the compound and they get to the second and third floor of the compound where osama bin laden and his wife were in t...

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, 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 about it....

Before, storing it on hard drives and such. its not clear. but this is a man who was using the internet through couriers, 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, 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 nei...

In the heart of tripoli. we heard also massive gunfire all throughout town that seems to come in direct reaction, that happened right after a press conference earlier tonight where the libya spokesperson announced in fact the libyan government is saying saif al arab gadhafi was killed in that air strike. we dont have any independent confirmation, only the libyan government. nato for its part is saying this was a precision air strike on a known command and control facility. we were able to tour t...

That the seal team took from his compounds. according to one senior defense official the u.s. is moving quickly to exploit this information before he put it so delicately the cockroaches scattered. first the national security correspondent jennifer griffin at the pentagon. when can we expect a decision about these photos. >> the cia director leon panetta said today that he thinks a photo will be released. but im told that the decision rests with the white house even with the president himself. a...

Indoors, we are not going to protest? or tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, will they still be defiant? and that will be the decisive moment. >> at the bottom of the hour, well talk to jamie rubin, a former assistant secretary of state in the clinton administration. hell talk more about syria, why it matters so much to the united states whats happening in syria now and what the united states can do to stop the violence there. thats at 9:35 eastern. now lets turn to libya and the rebel stronghol...

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