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Question that reza, if your r still there, they must have some information about what was going on and how they were able to survive inside this compound. for five or six years, were not sure how long they were there, and most of the time they didnt leave the place. obviously someone was helping them. thats what american officials want to know about. >> yeah. i mean, they could have been with bin laden for ten years, so certainly they have -- could have a lot of information, not just about bin l...

Minister has made up his mind before any investigation is complete or begun. >> there are two points. i think the first point hes trying to make is that there is no indication that there was a support network within the government or any of the institutions, he just didnt state it that clearly. >> he categorically denied it. >> the second thing he was trying to say was is so far what they know is that has not been the case. the united states has a lot of information they got from the compound. w...

They say. he was also strategic, operational and even tactical in his communications. >> which begs the question, fran, about whether or not he had a support network in pakistan. if hes able to get and receive messages, and most notably receive messages back, that indicates some level of support beyond just a single courier. >> thats exactly right, anderson. we have to presume he didnt have just a single network. the -- so it begs the question, were there officials in the pakistani government or...

States hit, those include christmas, the fourth of july, the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. it mentioned specific cities, notably washington and new york and it talks about modes of attack. it was from this journal that the information was gleaned about the possible threat to rail lines, which caused that alert last week in the immediate hours after osama bin ladens death. in addition, u.s. officials say that they have also found communications which indicate that osama bin laden was communica...

Whereabouts of hamza bin laden, one of osama bin ladens sons, a bit of a mystery. >> you also interviewed the pakistans interior minister today, a guy who is responsible for the internal security of pakistan. he reiterated the government did not know where bin laden was. i just want to play some of that. >> this was a man living in a fortress and you have intelligence agents swarming all over the country. how did they not know? >> 9/11 happened in new york. with all the best available intelligen...

Its tough to get higher these days, with 41% disapproving. thats our top story tonight. plus, president obama says bin laden had a support network in pakistan to help him hide. the big question so far is whether pakistans officials themselves were part of the network. who in pakistan is nervous tonight? think about it. what names are in that treasure trove of computer files our navy s.e.a.l.s picked up. why are so many republicans unhappy with their presidential candidates? a group in iowa, th...

>> i think its very difficult to believe he did not have a support network in pakistan. i think someone must have been helping him. it struck me that he seemed to think he was very secure in that redoubt he was, in the compound he was in. >> youre saying someone in the government or the isi or the military or civilians? >> i think it may be possible. it may be possible that it may be retired intelligence people or military retired people as well. i think it could be coming from a number of diffe...

Intelligence officials. now, each of them had the sound removed presumably to avoid spreading bin ladens words. that might be one of the explanations. now president barack obama believes it is possible that bin laden got help from inside pakistan to avoid being discovered. bin ladens compound is less than 40 miles from the capital in abbottabad. very close to the pakistani military academy. heres what president obama said on cbs "60 minutes." >> we think there was some sort of support network fo...

They certainly could provide some information about how active he was operationally. they could possibly provide some information about al qaeda. and they could also provide information about pakistan, osama bin ladens support network if he had one in this country. thats where things could get sticky for pakistan security establishment and thats perhaps why they may have been reluctant initially to give the u.s. access to these women but again ultimately according to this report it looks like th...

New low. pakistan is insisting it did not know where bin laden was. but the u.s. president says someone, somewhere, must have been protecting him. >> we think that there had to be some sort of some sort of support network for bin laden inside of pakistan. but we dont know who or what that support network was. we dont know whether there might have been some people inside of government, people outside of government. and thats something that we have to investigate and more importantly, the pakistan...