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One before 9/11. a lot of red lights are blinking in the intelligence world. one official said they're shocked that osama bin laden kept so much sensitive information so close. when u.s. forces raided osama bin laden's compound in pakistan, they didn't just find the world's most wanted terrorist, they found a treasure trove of data. sources familiar with bin laden's handwritten journal and computer files told abc news that names of suspected al qaeda operatives had been discovered. an international manhunt is under way to determine if the names are real or aliases. >> i believe they're under a...

Trouble. >> that was one of the biggest worries about this operation. this is a very delicate thing for the cia to do, put people on the ground. >> were they americans or people who looked like locals -- >> what you would have found, if you looked inside the safe house, americans, cia case operatives. >> staying undercover. >> staying inside, not venturing outside, using their equipment to monitor the compound also running networks of pakistanis. who may be pakistani-americans or -- >> sure. >> a lot of people being used to blend into this neighborhood, into this city. >> so we have really -- ...

>> what you would have found, if you looked inside the safe house, americans, cia case operatives. >> staying undercover. >> staying inside, not venturing outside, using their equipment to monitor the compound also running networks of pakistanis. who may be pakistani-americans or -- >> sure. >> a lot of people being used to blend into this neighborhood, into this city. >> so we have really -- let me ask you the question open-ended. have we advanced in human intelligence since 9/11? >> i think there's no doubt about that. i think, you know, the agency has learned so much, as much as the militar...

Organization. >> he's got all that time. nothing else to distract him. right? he's spending all his time just thinking about those things. >> no evidence at all, it seems, because they caught him in the dark basically asleep. they rousted him. they were able to stay and have surveillance from the safe house and he never detected he was in trouble. >> that was one of the biggest worries about this operation. this is a very delicate thing for the cia to do, put people on the ground. >> were they americans or people who looked like locals -- >> when you look inside the safe house, americans, cia ...

Organization. >> he's got all that time. nothing else to distract him. he's spending all his time just thinking about those things. >> no evidence at all, it seems, because they caught him in the dark basically asleep. they rousted him. they were able to stay and have surveillance from the safe house and he never detected he was in trouble. >> that was one of the biggest worries about this operation. this is a very delicate thing for the cia to do, put people on the ground. >> americans or o. >> when you look inside the safe house, americans, cia case operatives. >> staying undercover. >> stay...