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Alien. the people who believe in his philosophy and in terrorism will believe that that is american propaganda, that its been doctored. they wont accept the fact that its his or belongs to one of the couriers. i dont think its going to be a major sway or impact in the war of ideas. >> how long do you think the public will be learning new details about bin laden? and do you think there are going to be any major pieces of information that we are never going to hear about? >> i think this will be m...

A u.s. official says the interview did not go well. were also learning that bin laden kept in touch with his followers via e-mail. he apparently used flash drives that were then taken to distant internet cafes by his couriers. >> quite a network. very interesting. security is substantially increased this morning around the kenya home of president obamas stepgrandmother. this is in response to threats against sarah obama, issued by the somali branch of al qaeda. president obama says he will not...

Embassies when we tried to bomb him. and he was very conscious of that. so he always used couriers. what did surprise me is the extent of the amount of computer materials and flash drives and discs that were at that compound, and that sort of this picture that unfolds of bin laden trying to maintain control of al qaeda, trying to exhort them to do certain things, but as the story develops we see a guy who is a bit frustrated in that the local two and three level guys werent really conducting the...

Correctly reported the ttp is primarily focused on their local targets, as they did in this case. but i would like to note that faisal shahzad, the times square bomber of 2009, did have association with ttp. they also have had some aspirations to look outside and shows the evolving nature of al qaeda and its relationship to these other groups. >> mike, is it surprising to you as you learn about these flash drives, and for everybody that may not know, these are the little devices you can stick in...

So the fact is the debt limits going to have to be raised. the more important issue is how do we start attacking this enormous debt? we know that the -- we could balance budgets but we also have some real problems. they went into two ten-year wars. first time in the history we not only didnt raise taxes to pay for those wars, they cut taxes and decided to borrow the money from other countries. thats a prescription for failure. and thats one of the things that has to be corrected. >> senator patr...

A woman. thats tomorrow night at 9:00 eastern. heres anderson cooper with "ac 360." piers, thank you very much. breaking news on two fronts. a top u.s. lawmaker has seen the bin laden death photos and tonight describes what he saw. and a blockbuster revelation. osama bin laden kept a journal, a handwritten diary of death. a wish list of ways to kill as many americans as possible. navy s.e.a.l.s grabbed it. u.s. intelligence now has it. and what is inside? along with other seized material and...

Breaking news on two fronts. a top u.s. lawmaker has seen the bin laden death photos and tonight describes what he saw. and a blockbuster revelation. osama bin laden kept a journal, a hand written diary of death. a wish list of ways to kill as many americans as possible. navy s.e.a.l.s grabbed it. u.s. intelligence now has it. and what is inside? along with other seized material and computer flash drives, demolishes any notion that osama bin laden was some aging figurehead channel surfing his wa...

He manages to alienate a lot of the people he works with by not being inclusive about their points of view. that could spell good news for the counterterrorism community. at this point, what theyre trying to do, is get through all this merial, though, and find out, is there another plot they were unaware of that is mentioned somewhere in osamas diary or these flash drives to look for? >> somehow a shepherd to his flock is much to pastoral a metaphor -- >> im quoting. >> all right, well push that...

Particular dates. the documents also show that he had contact with some of his senior officials. for example, amman al zawahiri, the number two man. but that communication was not always effective. the only way he could communicate apparently was putting information on these flash drives and sending them out, obviously very time consuming process. so some scary details in these documents. but the fact that al qaeda over the past ten years has been ineffective an the fact that there was never any...

Major cities that have such high levels of security. >> reporter: the studying of new information comes from computer flash drives discovered at bin ladens compound in pakistan now being decoded and translated. u.s. officials say bin laden was sending the computer files by courier here to followers around the world, although it is not clear whether his advice was being strictly heeded. in addition to the computer-generated messages, u.s. officials say bin laden also kept a handwritten journal wi...