large number of computer hard drives and evidence of this nature. what do we know about this? anything yet? we don t know what s there. we just know there s a lot of it. but if we look back to bin laden s house in kandahar in 2001, when he vacated that house, he left behind a massive trove of video material on videotapes. it was a library, an archive of all the material that jihadist groups have sent to him of his best moments, things he wanted to remember. the only thing connecting him to the outside world that we saw at the compound here is a satellite dish for watching television. no telephone, no internet. it s not improbable to believe that he may have been recording material, like he did before from the television, and storing it, rather than on videotapes as he did before, storing it on hard drives and such. it s not clear. but this is a man who was using the internet through couriers,
drives and evidence of this nature. what do we know about this? anything yet? we don t know what s there. we just know there s a lot of it. but if we look back to bin laden s house in kandahar in 2001, when he vacated that house, he left behind a massive trove of video material on videotapes. it was a library, an archive of all the material that jihadist groups have sent to him of his best moments, things he wanted to remember. the only thing connecting him to the outside world that we saw at the compound here is a satellite dish for watching television. no telephone, no internet. it s not improbable to believe that he may have been recording material, like he did before from the television, and storing it, like he did on videotapes before, storing it on hard drives and such. it s not clear. but this is a man who was using the internet through couriers,
and although there s a military base half a mile to a mile away from the compound, it would seem to be out of sight, out of mind. but how could this larger than all the other buildings in its area building, in a large compound, in an expensive compound, with these sort of nefarious nighttime activities going on, with no telephone connection, how could that have been overlooked by pakistani authorities. why would people, the local police chief, or the local mayor, or local counselors, turn their back to a compound that raised that question. it does raise a lot of questions, piers? like most people, i m not buying a word of it, but nic robertson, thank you very much, indeed. the undisputed heroes of the mission to kill osama bin laden are the navy s.e.a.l.s who risked their lives. but what really went on during that raid? eric gritens is the author of the heart and the fist.
pretty much ignored them and let them get on with the secrecy that they wanted to have. they had no idea who they were, really. and nic, they ve seized a large number computer hard drives and evidence of this nature. what do we know about this? anything yet? we don t know what s there. we just know there s a lot of it. but if we look back to bin laden s house in kandahar in 2001, when he vacated that house, he left behind a massive trove of video material on videotapes. it was a library, an archive of all the material that jihadist groups have sent to him of his best moments, things he wanted to remember. the only thing connecting him to the outside world that we saw at the compound here is a satellite dish for watching television. no telephone, no internet. it s not improbable to believe that he may have been recording material, like he did before from the television, and storing it, like he did on videotapes
money, told them they couldn t come in, and just to go and buy another soccer ball in the market. so you can get this picture that this family was incredibly secretive. and although there s a military base half a mile to a mile away from the compound, it would seem to be out of sight, out of mind. but how could this larger than all the other buildings in its area building, in a large compound, in an expensive compound, with these sort of nefarious nighttime activities going on, with no telephone connection, how could that have been overlooked by pakistani authorities. why would people, the local police chief, or the local mayor, or local counselors, turn their back to a compound that raised that question. it does raise a lot of questions, piers? like most people, i m not buying a word of it, but nic robertson, thank you very much, indeed. the undisputed heroes of the