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Files and even a private journal recovered from the usama bin ladens compound. those documents show bin laden was still deeply involve inside al-qaedas operations. they are also revealing some chilling insights into his plans to try to kill more americans. dominic di-natale streaming live for us from islamabad, pakistan. dominic? >> reporter: jon, usama bin laden was determined until his bitter end that he would kill as many americans as he possibly could, and those are the communications and ca...

>> you couldnt pronounce it? >> exactly. >> you ask how much white house -- information the white house got. playing devils advocate, is it possible they are full of crap about what they got and running a huge campaign against al-qaeda? >> yes, that is possible. >> that would be neat. >> wouldnt it? >> i hope thats true. >> we both know it is probably not. >> i like your devils advocate try. >> i gave it a shot. kailey, you said -- terrys point, by telling al-qaeda what we found we are making it...

Computers and a hundred flash drives. i have three words, internet, porn, addiction. you told me he didnt have internet. >> no. so he must have downloaded everything before he got cutoff from the enter net. >> or he has netflix. you get everything, tivo, porn, the web. i sound like a commercial. >> you do. >> call and get tivo right now. get internet porn. never come out of your house. have four wives. >> bill, this is the last time you give hem your 8 ball. i told you to keep it until after the...

Devastating attacks. he said, apparently, his operatives should target attacks on specific days, so the anniversary of 9/11 is coming up, ten years of that in september of this year. also july 4th. psychologically important dates to deliver his evil message with as much impact as he possibly could. in his handwritten journal, particularly, there was just ideas brainstorming things that he had written down in arabic, but in these digital documents, these files they found on those flash drives the...

U.s. >> reporter: u.s. officials say osama bin laden was obsessed with inflicting more damage on america than the nation suffered on 9/11. >> the fact that bin laden wanted to kill thousands of americans does not surprise me at all. >> reporter: the al qaeda leader urged his followers to find targets outside of new york, such as los angeles or small cities where as many americans as possible would be killed in a single strike. >> it makes it more difficult for us to track. because were looking a...

Exactly how usama was allowed to actually stay in here all this time. no arrests yet, no indications of who these people actually are. theyre still trying to get more information out of the three women, jenna. jenna: dominic di-natale live in pakistan, thank you. jon: so usama bin laden may have taken some of his secrets to the grave, but he also left an awful lot behind on computer files, flash drives, handwritten letters, even phone numbers sewn into his clothing. right now the cia has a giant...

Types of helicopters, the safe houses. i would have liked them not to tell anybody they got all the computers and flash drives. it would be nice to exploit the information before they found out we knew something. the fact that we found out phone numbers from osama bin laden, it would be great to have been able to call the numbers before the world had known. bill: that is a great point. what folks bike you have found, whether its afghanistan or pakistan or iraq, when the other side finds out that...

Itself. >> they saw his figure? >> there was a figure, a tall figure that would go pacing back and forth. they even started calling him the pacer. so they were -- they thought perhaps this was him, but they could never get a clear photograph. >> is he the only guy of his height in that part of the world. >> the difficulty is it was hard to figure out what his height was based on their inability to get a clear look at him from anywhere. >> what did they figure he was doing all day in terms of his...

>> but this was 60% to 80%. >> the president had two choices, to either bomb that place into oblivion and have there be questions about who was really in there, so we went for the higher value thing and got rewarded beyond his expectation because they found such a trove of documents there, hard drives and disk drives and flash drives. you know, the things that were going to get potentially out of that, besides the satisfaction of taking out justice on osama bin laden, are almost beyond calculati...

You know, dna isnt 100%, right? >> your old friend, senator moynihan, the health debate in 1994, nothing is ever 100%. >> but this was 60% to 80%. >> the president had two choices, to either bomb that place into oblivion and have there be questions about who was really in there. so we went for the higher value thing and got rewarded beyond his expectation because they found such a trove of documents there, hard drives and disk drives and flash drives. you know, the things that were going to get ...