a comfort, that justice had been served, not only to the people of new york, new jersey, but to people who lost loved ones in london and bali and the attacks on the u.s. embassies in kenya and tanzania. she says his killing sends a message to the taliban. you cannot wait us out. you cannot defeat us, but you can make the choice to abandon al-qaida and participate in a peaceful, political process. reporter: mrs. linton says the u.s. will don t it s counterterrorism cooperation with other countries including pakistan. jenna: thank you very much for the update. wendell goler live at white house today, jon. jon: a top al-qaida come even tearer now threatens revenge for the death of osama bin laden.
the beginning of reprisals for the terrorist death. sid, what is the reaction. the most wanted man on the planet, no reaction. the same jubilent action in the ud is not being shared here in pakistan, why? because the moderate task is simply too scared. many are still not convinced that osama bin laden is death, others not expressive on hearing that he has died. but we are there are some people who are saying, why should we be happy? osama bin laden was against america and so are we. but the government, the prime minister ghalani has said osama bin laden death is a great victory. opposition parties are targeting the government and say how tkoed the leadership allow the ud to operate on pakistani soil. jenna: do we have any information when osama bin laden traveled to pakistan.
after bin laden s death. there was nothing specific but talks about affill thes yaik affiliates in yemen, somalia, as well as loan grown individuals, lone wolf cell attacks launched in retaliation for the death. while we ve got the video of the compound on the screen i want to talk a little about what i think is the most interesting part of this story, which is the intelligence that led to that compound in pakistan. what i was told by an official who s familiar with the intelligence and also a congressional source who s been briefed is that the foundational piece of intelligence that led to the identification of the compound came from the interrogation of guantanamo detainees. the important thing here is that the courier, the name of the courier, was something, and the identity was something only known to a very small group within al-qaeda and i was told by a senior u.s. official this person was known as a protogee of khalid sheikh
jon: the security committee is set to meet one hour from now, 2:00 p.m. eastern time, on pakistan. it s a thearg that was planned well before that u.s. military team located and killed osama bin laden not far from the capitol city of islamabad. lawmakers said to be drawing all long list of questions about this military operation and pakistan and what it knew about it, where bin laden was hiding. joining us now, congresswoman sylvester reyes, democrat from texas, he is a member of the house armed services committee and former chairman of the house intelligence committee. last night s developments, congressman, obviously changed the tenor of this discussion today. what is your first question? well, first of all, congratulations to the men and women of the many intelligence agencies and
at sea. we believe the timing is around roughly 2:00am east coast time. more information as we get it. again on the final moments of osama bin laden as well as his burial. as you know we have news breaking just every minute on the death of this man. the terrorist leader taken out by a team of navy seals in pakistan last night. the stunning news, though didn t come from a major media company, it came from a sweet. shabani joshi has store details. reporter: the word of osama bin laden s death coming well before president obama making the address last night. it came out on the web and on a tweet halfway across the world. let me go through the timeline of how everything unfolded yesterday. it started with a tweet in pack san around 4:30 eastern time yesterday by the name of at really virtual. he describes himself as a 33-year-old it professional that is located about two to three