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Compound, where bin laden spent his final hours. u.s. troops encountered two security gates, outer walls up to 18-feet high in some places, and topped with barbed wire. >> and it was osama bin laden's courier and most trusted aide, a kuwaiti born man abu ahmed who led troops to his doorstep. a monitored phone call he made last year tipped off u.s. intelligence agents about bin laden's compound. >> bring in barbara starr, who's been leading our reporter on how the raid was planned and executed. what have you found out new this morning? >> good morning, everyone. the first thing we want to show ...

>> reporter: different because it was a million-dollar home with no telephone or internet service. there were also two security gates and protective walls as high as 18 feet. residents inside burned their trash rather than put it out for pickup. and the third-floor terrorist had a seven-foot privacy well as if to hide a very tall person. but intelligence officials insist there was no guarantee bin laden was inside. >> all of these were clues to some of the intelligence officials that something wasn't right. they determined to the best of their ability that their assessment was this was built s...

Administration officials say the seeds of sunday's operation were actually planted four years ago, when detainees at guantanamo bay gave up the courier's nickname. two years later, intelligence officials learned the courier's full name, and in a cloak and dagger maneuver that seemed straight out of a spy movie the courier was finally found in pakistan, reportedly because of a phone call he made to someone else who was under u.s. surveillance. >> they had a sighting of him. so they set up an elaborate surveillance effort that led them in august of 2010 to that compound. and one of my sources sa...

And if so, what is the u.s.'s recourse? how much credit also should the bush administration be getting for the death of bin laden? >> also, csi bin laden. his dna match was made within hours. dr. sanjay gupta explains how it happened so fast. we begin this hour with important new information about the raid that snuffed out osama bin laden. the al qaeda chief's body not all that was taken from the compound in abbottabad, pakistan, on sunday. u.s. officials say intelligence officers are now examining a large haul of computer equipment and documents that were also seized from bin laden's mansio...

Last august, the key break came when the u.s. pinpointed their exact location. an affluent pakistan suburb in a three-story home situated in an extraordinarily unique compound. that compound was built in 2005. was eight times larger than other homes in the neighborhood. it had 12 to 18-foot walls lined with barbed wire, two security gates and few windows despite being a million dollar home it had no phone or wireless access. the residence of the compound burned their trash rather than set it on the curb as is cus come in that neighborhood. by september the cia determined that a compound like...