always looking for leads, came to me with the expectation that they might be able to use the kur your network. that s much more difficult for us to track but it s an opportunity. and they began at that point. they actually used some information that we had derived from some of our high value detainees that gave us some identifying data on the cure couriers and i obviously lost lock on the hunt two years or so ago, but it s very clear to me now that that process led to yesterday s events. the high value detainees the information came from they gave you information about this courier network and specifics. they began to provide some leads, this is the same as it is in your business, one piece at a time. this is interrogations at gitmo? these would be cia detainees. so they re not at gitmo?
laden s courier network, there was no good reason they would have that kind of money to own that kind of come compound. u.s. officials later confirmed there were three families living there. the two families for the couriers and also a third family which they later concluded imbased on the intelligence was osama bin laden. when we have that count of the number that were killed in the compound, what we know now or what i know through u.s. officials is it was osama bin laden, the two couriers and then the fourth person was osama bin laden s son. i just want to emphasize how important it is osama bin laden s son has been confirmed dead in the same home. what that tells you is that osama bin laden felt very secure and very safe in that compound. so secure that he was willing to have one of his adult sons living there with him. now he may have been moving from place to place and may have been in different housing situation situations at other times, but it seems
intelligence, and some of the intelligence came from detainees and specifically and importantly it dealt with a courier network bin laden relied on heavily for his own safety and security. and very few people knew the identity of these two brothers who were part of this courier network. once they had the identities of the brother thees were able to identify the house in august of 2010. and once they had the compound identified, they began, if you will, sort of unraveling the string to see if other pieces of intelligence fit into that picture rks that that was probably where osama bin laden was hiding. they burned their trash, the high security measures, the fact that on the third floor of the building there was a seven-foot tall privacy wall, the fact that when it was first built, it was a vacant area and now urbanized. there were many details that in isolation may not have