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Have treated us. chris: what did it say about this country capabilities and resolve? i think it sent a message to the world that will first and foremost. the united states delivered justice to those who died on 9/11 and to their families. no matter how long it takes, if you do harm to american citizens we re going to track you down, find and you bring you to justice. chris: after the missioned, cia learned that bin laden was hiding in the abbottabad compound for 5 years, he spent much of that time blotting future terror attacks against the u.s. it is worth remembering now in wake of or chaotic ....
Ready to go to alabama to view storm damage. chris: president obama made his decision, the raid was a go. i remember thinking to myself, wow, that is bold decision. i remember saying, bill, i said, i want you to go in. get bin laden and get the hell out. with this weighing on your mind, you had to go to white house correspondent dinner, drink, laugh and pretend nothing was going on in the world, how tough was that. decision was made we should show up for the dinner. if we didn t people would consider that suspicious. i think everyone did a pretty good job of covering up what of going to happen the next day. chris: including the president himself. who took the opportunity to jab someone in the audience. ....
Hear those helicopters you have about 90 seconds to be able to repel down. and go in before bin laden is truly alerted to what is happening. chris: the plan they practiced so many times went south quickly. i was looking on the big screens there as helicopter came in. and i could see it start to waffle. chris: lead black hawk fought to maintain control, hit the call of the compound. i immediately said to bill mcraven, what the hell happened? bill didn t miss a beat. he said we have a back upheld held coming in we are going in with mission, they are repelling, this mission is going on, i remember saying, god bless you, let s do it. our pilot realized. if he can t hover i can t hover, i remember my first foot on the ground, i ....
Air force reacting, we planned for that, we could see more reaction from pakistan, we had to move. chris: seals loaded bin laden a body on the working black hawk. and thought about destroying the chopper that crashed. we have to figure out how we ll live, they rigged helicopter to blow up, first team that came in, that crashed got on our helicopter with bin laden s body and took off. chris: a back up chopper swooped in to collect o neill and the rest of the team. we re on ride home from a mission where we are supposed to be dead, we could still be shot down, pakistan has to be sending jets at us or something, we re flying out, now a race against time. 85 minutes in. pilot came over and said, for the first time in your life you will be happy to hear this welcome to ....
Laden. chris: welcome back to this fox news special. based on my new book, countdown bin laden. in march of 2011. anti-american sentiment was high in pakistan as president obama and his top advisers debated what to do about that compound in abbottabad. they faced 3 big questions, was bin laden there? if so, who was surest and safest way to kill or capture him, and how to deal with the pakistanis. in 2008. then senator and candidate obama was asked, if you had the opportunity to take ....