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Osama bin laden. here is the chief counterterrorism advicer. this is john brennan. then well talk on the other side. >> i think its inconceivable that bin laden did not have a support system in the country that allowed him to remain there for an expended period of time. >> paul, do you agree? >> absolutely. and i was on the phone yesterday to the former head of german intelligence, someone intimately involved in the hunt for bin laden. he told me that he thought it was almost impossible for the ...

Until he lost power in 2008. in an interview with cnn he defended his countrys role in the war on terror. take a listen. >> we have in my time over the years we have arrested, apprehended dozens of al qaeda operatives and every time it was intelligence provided jointly by -- many times with american intelligence and it was pakistani forces and we did a good job of it. and here again, the sensitivity of people in pakistan, in the streets, in the political forces are against violation of sovereign...

That bin laden did not have a support system in the country that allowed him to remain there for an extended period of time. >> wow, so should the u.s. be questioning our ties with our so-called ally? joining us from london is the author of "pakistan, a hard country" so were they in on this would you say? >> i think there were real questions about pakistani military intelligence and how they could not have known that he was staying so close to a major military center. but i dont think that the p...

Show just how close general petraeus was to where bin laden was hiding on his recent visit. all that, and we await briefings at the state department and the white house. all that, coming up at the top of the hour on "america live". >> jon: major questions being raised now about bin ladens hideout in pakistan. we have been scouring the planet to find this guy for years. turns out he was essentially hiding in plain sight. his fortified compound, built in an affluent neighborhood where many of paki...

>> today, at my direction, the small team of americans carried out the operation -- >> when that helicopter was seen to be unable to move, all of a sudden you had to go into plan b. and they did it flawlessly. >> im fascinated by the fact that there was a neighbor next to this compound tweeting -- live tweeting during the raid. go away, helicopter before i take out my giant swatter. >> d.n.a. analysis confirms with 100% certainty that in fact it was osama bin laden killed. >> by how did osama bi...

Most wanted man in the world was able to stay for so long within the border of a u.s. ally, supposedly. heres john brennan, countertrorism adviser, saying an investigation on that issue is well underway: >> people have been referring to this as hiding in plain sight, clearly, this was something that was considered as a possibility. pakistan is a large country, we are looking right now at how he was able to hold out there so long and whether or not there was any type of support system within paki...

Support system in the country. >> bin laden holding up there over the course of the last six years. >> hiding behind women who were put in front of him as a shield. >> and what happens next? >> are we going to ultimately get a photo of the deceased osama bin laden? >> do you believe thats necessary at this point? >> sure. >> al qaeda central is going to try and respond. >> by netta is warning of potential retaliation. >> its not going to end just because we killed this notorious, really internat...

Hiding in plain sight. this is a possibility, and pack tan is a large country. we are looking right now at how he was able to hold out there for so long, and whether or not there was any type of support system within pakistan that allowed him to stay there. we though that the people at the compound there were working on his behalf, and that is how we ultimately found our way to the compound, but we are right nowless than 24 hours after this operation, so we are talking with the pakistanis on a r...

From the sky ons us. >> reporter: they say in part of their association with adam gadhan over the years theyve been subjected to numerous threats. they want people to know theyre celebrating the death of osama bin laden just like other americans. ted rowlands, garden grove, california. a top white house official says its, quote, inconceivable that bin laden didnt have some kind of support system in pakistan. what did officials in pakistan know? ill ask the pakistani ambassador to the united st...

We are look right now at how he was able to hold out there for so long, and whether there was any type of support system within pakistan that allows him to stay there. we know that the people at come found were work on his behalf and thats how we ultimately found our way to that come pointp pound. but we are less than 24 hours after operation we are talking with the pakistanis on a regular basis and well pursue all leads to find out what type of support system and benefactors bin laden may have ...