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Mission and precise situation. >> i know what john brennan said that they did have a contingency plan to bring bin laden out alive. although my suspicion has always been they didn't want to bring him out alive or take him to guantanamo and start a trial for osama bin laden and give him a lot of possibility. that if there was any opportunity to kill him and kill him in a fire fight, that was the goal. but based on your experience at tora bora, what do you think? >> i think you're absolutely right. i think the mission was, one, to kill him if we had positive i.d. we learned a lot from saddam. i ...

Take him alive, the individuals involved were able and he prepared to do that. the concern was that bin laden would oppose an inside capture operation. indeed he did. it was a fire fight. he, therefore, was killed in that fire fight and that's when the remains were removed. >> there was also a tense situation for officials monitoring the events. it's one of the most anxiety-filled periods in their lives. what we've heard in the last few hours and i'm sure in the hours ahead we'll hear even more. >> john brennan really knows his sufficient. he knows counterterrorism but intelligence and worked ...

Only beginning to get the tip of the iceberg about the details. we are in the coming days, maybe in the coming hours, but certainly in the coming days wx will learn a whole lot more? >> yes. we should be cautious, because oftentimes the story that is put forward frankly by the u.s. officials early on, you know, it does not necessarily turn out to be fully accurate. you think back to the jessica lynch situation in the war in iraq, and sometimes the stories in the early hours that it is put forward over time changes. there is that caveat, but right now, we are relying on the information that the...

Wing fighter jets, predators, drones monitoring the situation. other helicopters to engage in search and rescue. everybody was ready to move in with significant fire power and force if something had gone wrong and that's what john brennan was talking about when he watched that one helicopter go to mechanical failure, it's fair to say everybody took a deep breath because they didn't know what was coming next and they had everything to move in and engage in a very significant military operation with significant force to get the team out if they had to, anderson. >> do we know how many people wer...