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They dont know why that video was not released or through their courier network it appears that that was the way he was perhaps releasing these videos through thumb drives that were taken by couriers out of the compound. because as weve been reporting there was no internet into the compounds and no or way to get it out. except through couriers. >> kelly: jennifer, let me ask you a question then. we know what he looks like then and going to see the video and assume at some point the five videos o...

Casualties. after a fire fight, they killed osama bin laden and took custody of his body. >> barbara starr is live at the pentagon for us this morning. as we know, the u.s. spent a long time hunting this man down, some nine years, eight months, many americans when polled thought this day would never happen. how did it go down? >> well, kiran, as you said earlier, apparently the u.s. intelligence community and the u.s. military had been following this trail for some time, keeping an eye on this c...

Dont forget, they have five telephones, mobile phones taken from the compound. they have a wealth of information. they have, they described this as the largest intelligence gathering from a terrorist in the history of the united states. so, theyre still wading through. they cant tell us how many electronic devices they had because theyre still wading through all of it. and, but, but they certainly determined from this, the initial intelligence readouts that he was calling for attacks, he was pla...

>> we came out of a briefing with a senior intelligence official, who showed us five videos that were confiscated from the pound of bin laden and show bin laden in various videos, they took the audio off the videos because they did not want to be releasing any sort of messages, but whats most fascinating about this is that he in one of the videos, hes shown watching himself on television, hes on al-jazeera, theres a satellite, satellite, it looks like a satellite channel and clicking until, and ...

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Is that were told that when he was killed, he had a very gray beard and in one of the videos where hes watching himself on tv he had a gray beard. but in the videos that he was broadcasting to, to his followers and being sent by courier to broadcast to the world, he would take great pains to dye his beard black so he didnt look like he was aging. so thats something. >> jamie: let me jump in here for a second. because you have followed this story of al-qaeda for many places around the world and n...

Final moments of that part of the operation? >> you know, i think thats really interesting, because over the years, there had been a lot of talk and we followed this very closely, you know, sort of about that last hundred yards to osama bin laden. there had always been talk he had cyanide or poison with him, that he would take that, that he had weapons, of course, and he would commit suicide before he would allow himself to be taken. by ougaccounts, u.s. forces sho him in the head as he was resi...