wading through intelligence gathered at the bin laden compound tell us that it included evidence that bin laden was still involved in choosing local al-qaeda branch leaders wanting to make sure they have proper islamic credentials and they focus on spectacular attacks. not small individual local attacks. he still had an obsession with airline industry. >> former c.i.a. director michael hayden told me now that bin laden is dead he won't be there to discourage the affiliate captors carrying out smaller attacks that are harder to disrupt, detect or defend against. >> bret: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. thank you. the popular uprising ins the middle east and north africa began half a year ago and they continue to provoke deadly resistance from people who want to hang on to power. reena looks at what happened today in syria. a warning, some of the images in the report are graphic.