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Darkness in the shadow next to the candle. what he means is if you are next to a military base and you are hiding there thats the last place people will look for you. it seems bin laden was smart choosing this city. it wasnt associated with terrorist activity. >> he knew that the area closer to any military installation will at least be saved from the attacks. >> reporter: at the compound, there is evidence bin laden was not expecting trouble. >> i was surprised at the lack of intensity of gun b...

They never came. >> reporter: instead, the u.s. relies on its hired guns. >> yeah. it was not a professional military force by any stretch of the imagination. some of them took bribes from members of al qaeda to look the other way. >> reporter: outsourcing fails. bin laden vanishes into the mountains. >> he was there. we were listening to him on the radio. bin laden and roughly 180 would escape. >> the moral of the story, i think, is that to capture someone as resourceful as osama bin laden who ...

Nothing and become irrelevant or continue saying things and stay relevant. he chose the latter. [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> his message continues to resonate even when he was on the run. >> reporter: with a $25 million bounty on his head, bin laden is now the most wanted man on the planet. right underneath our fee, and all we need to do is change the way were thinking about them. a couple decades ago, we didnt even realize just how much natural gas was trapped in rocks thousands of fee...

Is one of the first reporters to arrive in abbottabad. >> there was a lot of surprise. they knew about the helicopters coming in. they had heard the helicopters, seen the flames, heard the gunfire, gone to the roofs to see what was happening, but it was all sort of too unreal for them, if you will, that this most wanted terrorist was living right under their noses. >> reporter: on the streets of this town, 70 miles from the capitol, the mystery of where the worlds most wanted terrorist was hidin...

Believes they have found him. now, it will take an ambitious plan to get bin laden. it will take some of the best of the american military. it will take the navy s.e.a.l.s. >> they are very highly trained. they do a lot of very tough jobs around the world. these are the commandos. these are the ones that we are going to kick down the door, take osama bin laden dead or alive and get the job done. >> reporter: for an elite unit, a special kind of sailor. >> the heart and soul of the navy s.e.a.l. ...

Outsourcing the hunt for bin laden. using cases of cash. >> we paid the enemy off to get them to surrender at times. we paid for our allies. we used cash as a tool. and it was quite effective. >> reporter: within weeks, afghanistan is falling. bin laden is on the run. east to the mountains. nestled among the 14,000-foot peaks, a complex of caves known as tora bora. >> it was an excellent place to hide. bin laden had spent many years living in and around that region. he had a house with a small r...

Ladens hideout. >> he couldnt have been hidinging in any more plain sight than this. around three sides of the compound, a farmers field. cabbage here, potatoes there, marijuana plants up to the side of the compound. he was just over the wall. >> this is a very beautiful area. >> reporter: a former pakistani government official lived there in the 80s, before bin laden arrived. >> so people come there for tourism also. i have very good memories of the area, but i do remember that as soon as you s...

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>> reporter: bin ladens base of operations is afghanistan. here, the fundamentalist taliban regime provides sanctuary. so immediately after september 11th, small u.s. commando teams begin working with local warlords who oppose the taliban to get bin laden. cia officer gary burnson is on the ground helping lead the mission. >> keep pushing people forward. keep taking ground. keep working with northern alliance or other tribal units to seize territory and to kill the enemy. >> reporter: concerned ...

Perhaps a way to chase after bin laden. we knew he was communicating, but we were convinced he could not possibly be communicating electronically or we would have picked that up. it had to be human-to-human contact, hence the courier system. >> amongst people detained soon after tora bora were i man al kata katani. he tried to be the 20th hijacker but he was never admitted to the united states. >> reporter: according to this interrogation log obtained by "time" magazine the would be 9/11 hijacke...