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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...

Electronic surveillance to track him down. president obama talking about bin laden in his speech on the middle east today. listen. even before his death al qaeda was losing struggle for relevant vaps. as the overwhelming majority of people saw that the slaughter of innocence did not answer their cries for a better life bip lad deposit was apparently trying to stay relevant in what we're told may be the final recording he made before his death. the national correspondent catherine herridge works intelligence for us. she is live in our d.c. newsroom. you told bus this tape last week, right? >> i...

Major cities that have such high levels of security. >> reporter: the studying of new information comes from computer flash drives discovered at bin laden's compound in pakistan now being decoded and translated. u.s. officials say bin laden was sending the computer files by courier here to followers around the world, although it is not clear whether his advice was being strictly heeded. in addition to the computer-generated messages, u.s. officials say bin laden also kept a handwritten journal with daily entries. his son omar said in a recently published book, his father religiously recorded h...

>> reporter: bill, they're asking what is your next step? as we look back here, your garage is underwater, some of your plants, though, have survived. what are you going to do next? are you ever going to be having barbecues right there about ten feet underwater? is. >> we'll have to wait until the waters recede which, we understand, could be a long wait for us this summer. it's going to be a slow fall. and, of course, the slow fall, the water's standing here does that more damage to the building. if it would just come up and go down, it doesn't cause that much damage. but sitting here like it'...

U.s. >> reporter: u.s. officials say osama bin laden was obsessed with inflicting more damage on america than the nation suffered on 9/11. >> the fact that bin laden wanted to kill thousands of americans does not surprise me at all. >> reporter: the al qaeda leader urged his followers to find targets outside of new york, such as los angeles or small cities where as many americans as possible would be killed in a single strike. >> it makes it more difficult for us to track. because we're looking at more symbolic locations. >> reporter: but officials say bin laden was dissatisfied with small-sca...