compound where bin laden was found was surrounded, they say, by seven-foot walls. u.s. helicopter a u.s. helicopter did crash during that raid. mechanical problems are being blamed for that. that helicopter was destroyed by u.s. troops for security reasons, but again, no u.s. forces were killed in that very daring and very, very difficult operation. ali? all right. kiran, we ve been gathering our people in the united states and several locations and around the world where people have been gathering, as soon as they heard the news starting late sunday night. here at ground zero, i m just a few feet away from where the buildings were standing. around the corner is a gathering of people, though. you can see here on this video, this gathering is quite large and quite jubilant through the course of the night. what s happening right now, behind me, is we ve got street sweeping machines, busses having rolled through. the police have set up barricades, moved the folks who are here celebrat
international coal group for $3.4 billion in cash. that s it from cnbc, first in business worldwide. and now back to hardball. welcome balk to hardball. one of the most incredible aspects of the bin laden story, he s been hiding in a million dollar compound, not in a cave, it was in a town just 35 miles outside of islamabad, the capital. right by the pakistani military academy. that country s west point. right there next to it. the pakistani government is saying it knew nothing about bin laden s whereabouts, it does seem peculiar he was able to hide in a mansion so near the capital. are they telling the truth over there in that capital that they knew nothing? richard engel, nbc s chief foreign correspondent in benghazi tonight. roger cressey, former white house counterterrorism official
this organization has a lot of forces, a lot of rivalries, different ideologies, different agendas. bin laden was able to unify al qaeda by launches this jihad against the united states. he was able to say it was he wanted to get back to a seventh century muslim empire which was borderless, which was extremely, you know, apparently attractive to many people. what i want to ask you about, paul, we ve covered this so long, nine years, eight months, you know, since 9/11, trying to get our hands on him, how surprised are you this is where he ended up, abbottbad, a military, garrison city as reza describes it, not in the border of afghanistan as people talked about. there s increased surprise that officials had indicated he could be in pakistan proper, hinting elements have known where he was. the fact that he was killed in this settled area of pakistan in this compound, this million
by all accounts they knew it was him when they killed him, had the body in hand, had absolutely no doubt they got osama bin laden and, of course, here at the pentagon in the early morning hours, this news being greeted very soberly but for the 184 souls that were lost here that morning, at least for their families there is going to be some closure. a little later, when we check back in with you, we ll ask a few questions about you said they have no doubt, will the public, will the world have any doubt about the authenticity of what is being said? we ll talk more about what they will be releasing proof in a little while. thanks. more about the compound and the big walls and no internet, no phone and how it was that u.s. intelligence began to be suspicious about that compound that led them to osama bin laden. he left a life of wealth and privilege to wage a holy war on the west from the remote mountain caves but spent the final months of his life hiding in full view in the million do
new york city. i m sure you are too, when this news came down. thank you so much. linda and andy morales from orange county, california, for joining us. and ali, everyone certainly remembers where they were on 9/11. everyone in new york city certainly remembers the collective shock and silence in this city that is usually bustling, but no shortage of celebration in the streets of and certainly no shortage of celebration here in times square. back to you. . all right. alina, we ll keep checking in. things are getting busier in times square, even though there s a big gathering where you are, we re about an hour away from the workers coming in to this part of new york city and that is going to change a little bit of what s going on behind us. right now, jason carroll around the corner with me with the celebrants who are down here at ground zero. back to you, kiran and christine. thanks so much. we ll be checking in in a couple minutes. just tuning in, osama bin laden is dead in a d