of course, the intelligence before this has suggested he's a difficult guy, difficult to get along with, doesn't have the same charisma as bin laden, doesn't have the power to quell this sort of discontent among the affiliates that bin laden had. so we have to wonder is it a lack of support for his ascension to al qaeda. >> and he is a controversial figure, even within al qaeda, not well liked. thanks for the late reporting for us. coming up, we'll talk to ron paul about the new information about bin laden and what he thinks we should do about pakistan. but first we want to look at pakistan's mixed record on fighting terrorism and their failure to find bin laden. as far back as january of 2002, pakistan's leadership said that bin laden was probably dead and simply not in pakistan. in fact, about three years later, not only was bin laden still alive and well, he was living near pakistan's equivalent of west point. as we mentioned at the top, it