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Psyche of al-qaida and its allies throughout the middle east and even here in country, the home grown terrorists that they've recruited. >> sure, congressman, before the president made his address to the nation last night from the east room of the white house, he did call former president george w. bush and william jefferson clinton and gave him a heads up of the operation and we understand a number of white house personnel called members of congress, what did they say? >> at 10:05, a received a call from the director of the national counter terrorism center telling me that the president would...

Pakistanis and i would say they've got some explaining to do and they better start right now. >> we went in there on our own and informed the pakistani forces as of late and did it. this is an american operation. the world didn't end. we still live. maybe we have -- are at the point now, where we should identify these camps and go for it. how can we -- how can our relations be more fractured or frayed? >> i think that will be one of the things that president obama talks about today with his national security team is how do we move forward? i mean, at the same time, we are trying with many diff...

Were we pulling out of libya operation? and then all of a sudden, this news came. how did you find out? >> well, we were -- we were all on the track, everyone was sort of focusing on qaddafi thinking of libya. no one was even thinking of bin laden until suddenly, the penny turned. i got a call from a sources and said, what about bin laden? i didn't have it confirmed so i started making the rounds of calls and eventually, very quickly, actually, i had a senior u.s. intelligence official confirm to me that he was dead. then there was some murky details in the beginning. we weren't sure how it we...

Highest bounty in u.s. history. bin laden became the face of america's war on terror as authorities sought to bring to justice those responsible for the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 civilians on september 11th. >> despite that pledge, the al-qaida leader proved elusive and vanished before u.s. special forces and their afghan allies could overrun his mountainous hideout. reports suggested that he walked across the pakistan border with trusted bodyguards until a massive operation obliterated his base in tora bora. it's believed he went into hiding from where he taunted successive u.s. admini...

No americans were harmed. they took care to avoid civilian casualties. after a firefight, they killed osama bin laden and took custody of his body. for over two decades, bin laden has been al-qaida's leader and symbol and has continued to plot attacks against our country and our friends and allies. the death of bin laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation's effort to defeat al-qaida. his death does not mark the end of our effort. there's no doubt that al-qaida will continue to pursue attacks against us. we must and we will remain vigilant at home and abroad. >> huge v...