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Transportation, in their infrastructure, he relied heavily on the courier network, people serving him, helping to get the message out and bringing information to him in the compound and he was dyeing his beard out of jealously guarding that image he's so careful to present. >> dave: those are the facts. what you can glean from the videos is fascinating when you look at this man, the head of a terror network sitting on a couch with a blanket over his shoulders, an old man, almost completely isolated in life, flipping the tv in the corner, looking for his own image. this is not the image of one ...

Should the administration release photographs and other evidence of this? or should it just say, no, we have bin laden. >> that's a difficult choice, you put yourself on a slip roy slope. i would recommend going out there with some evidence that this is true, and frankly al qaeda knows it's true and they can't make him that martyr until they admit what's happened. >> what's the closest you every got in your tenure? >> the trail was cold during my time and until we picked up the scent about four years ago with couriers, following the courier network, we didn't have much to show for this particu...

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...

Always looking for leads, came to me with the expectation that they might be able to use the kur your network. that's much more difficult for us to track but it's an opportunity. and they began at that point. they actually used some information that we had derived from some of our high value detainees that gave us some identifying data on the cure couriers and i obviously lost lock on the hunt two years or so ago, but it's very clear to me now that that process led to yesterday's events. >> the high value detainees the information came from they gave you information about this courier network ...

Laden's courier network, there was no good reason they would have that kind of money to own that kind of come compound. u.s. officials later confirmed there were three families living there. the two families for the couriers and also a third family which they later concluded imbased on the intelligence was osama bin laden. when we have that count of the number that were killed in the compound, what we know now or what i know through u.s. officials is it was osama bin laden, the two couriers and then the fourth person was osama bin laden's son. >> i just want to emphasize how important it is os...