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Year, it em sod clear to them it was built for someone of osama bin laden's stature because of the security that was at the compound. they told me they were security walls and perimeters and the walls were 12 to 18 feet high. and they told me on the third story which you can see on the earlier video there was a seven-foot high privacy wall as well. in addition i was told the compound was exceptionally large for the area that it was in. when it was built in 2005 it was a fairly vacant area at that time. i was told in the six years since it was filled there was additional construction in the are...

Area lookouts. we will get the details. 24 of them swept in. this is the video of the compound where osama bin laden apparently has been living for some time. it is a large compound about 60 miles to the north and east of islamabad, the capital city. sometimes 18-foot walls surrounded the place. it was a three-level structure, 8 times larger than any other more than the average home in that area. that's part of the reason cia analysts felt there must be a high value target like osama bin laden staying there. the third floor of the place had seven-foot privacy walls around it and apparently all...

Intelligence community within homeland security that they might want to anticipate retaliatory actions based on our understanding of al-qaeda and spes tuckly our understanding -- specifically our understanding of the uh fill yuans in -- affilliates in yemen and somalia. >> the banner says it all, "osama bin laden is dead, killed in pakistan less than 12 hours ago along with three other men. one of them believed to be his 24-year-old son. the other two thought to be couriers whose presence in the compound may have helped lead the cia to that terror mastermind. we go now to her rail dough rivera...

Terrorists. katherine? >> thank you, john. i had a conversation earlier with the senior u.s. official who explained to me that when the president said they received an important piece of intelligence in august of 2010, in fact what he was referring to was the fact they identified the compound in pakistan. i was also told this intelligence came from a broad spectrum and also came from detainees. and what was important here was the house was identified to two brothers who were part of the courier network for osama bin laden. and the identity of those two men, how the courier network operated was...

And we had no chance to question the question how would a man be brought to justice. would he be taken to guantanamo and be interrogated? is it as simple and clean as president obama hoped for? >> steven yates was the former deputy assistant to vice president cheney for the national security affairs. thank you for your insight. >> thank you. >> it is an interesting question. what would have happened if bin laden took advantage of the of oner to surrender? he did not. he was shot in the head and apparently a lot of other places. a lot of bullets flew into the compound when the navy seals storme...