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Members of al qaeda would swear allegiance to bin laden himself personally. so the new leader will have to have those senior members of the ruling council, and other members, swear allegiance to him. the question is, he doesn't have bin laden's charisma. he's known to be a difficult perp at. this allows him to shore up his political base inside al qaeda. >> chris, i want to turn to these new details you were getting about the raid that killed bin laden. what new details do you have? >> reporter: we have now learned that for every one of the about two dozen s.e.a.l.s that assaulted that compoun...

So the new leader will have to have those senior members of the ruling council, and other members, swear allegiance to him. the question is, he doesn't have bin laden's charisma. he's known to be a difficult personality. this allows him to shore up his political base inside al qaeda. >> chris, i want to turn to these new details you were getting tonight about the raid that killed bin laden. what new details do you have? what have you found out? >> reporter: we have now learned that for every one of the about two dozen s.e.a.l.s that assaulted that compound, there was another s.e.a.l. close by ...

That al zawahri might have assumed the reigns of al qaeda? >> absolutely. members of al qaeda would swear allegiance to bin laden himself personally. so the new leader will have to have those senior members of the ruling council, and other members, swear allegiance to him. the question is, he doesn't have bin laden's charisma. he's known to be a difficult perp at. this allows him to shore up his political base inside al qaeda. >> chris, i want to turn to these new details you were getting about the raid that killed bin laden. what new details do you have? >> reporter: we have now learned that ...

Anderson. so this is a guy who has spent a good deal of time, after americans started bombing in afghanistan, he fled to iran, with two of bin laden's sons. he was there with his wife and family for a number of years. it wasn't until the last year and a half or so that he got out of iran where he was held in sort of house arrest and went back to pakistan. so he's been a member of the military council. and he's got a lot of sort of military experience. >> is it still a possibility that al zawahiri might have assumed the reigns of al qaeda? >> absolutely. you know, we talk about bin laden. membe...

Qaeda use the western banking system against them, applying for fraudulent loans and able to plot operations that way. >> give us some comparison about the cost of attacks. we keep talking about 9/11 versus bin laden and other developed attacks. >> 9/11 was expensive for al qaeda, but this package bomb we saw against the united states two cargo jet, just $4,200. the na jar plot about 2,000, the times square plot about 20,000. these are not huge sums of money. al qaeda does have some operating costs in the tribal areas of pakistan, maybe several million dollars a year. if the funding is being c...