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Bou compound. i would have been enormously surprised given the lack of tru trust, it would have been a huge surprise if the americans had chosen this moment to share the intelligence and their operation with the pakistanis given how they frankly didn't seem to be getting on at all. i think there's an attempt for the pakistani government to try to seem on side, to show they were very much involved, although seems from what we're hearing the helicopters turned up undetected. they didn't know it was happening until it had begun. >> it is an amazing story. nick payton walsh for us live in islamaba...

Past few weeks with the president sharing five national security council meetings. the final one thursday last week. the following day at 8:20 a.m., as the president prepared to leave the white house for alabama, president obama gave the go ahead for a mission that had been rehearsed for months. on sunday, national security staff worked all day on the operation. a senior administration official says at 2:00 p.m., the president met with his senior staff to review final preparations. at about 4:00 p.m. eastern sunday, just after midnight in pakistan, a team of navy seof n s.e.a.l.s raid the comp...

Neighborhood? >> reporter: i have to say i've not seen it, but the pictures i have seen do suggest the building quite as odds with the rest of the town. not necessarily that central, but very high walls. significant defenses. no apparently communications in terms of telephone or internet. so, yes, perhaps a strange com pound in that busy town. bear in mind we're dealing with a city of that size, that many people, buildings aren't really going to stand out unless you're aware of the world's most wanted terrorist is within them. >> and from what we're being told at cnn is that the pakistani gove...