they continue to ransom people to this day. the documents paint a picture of an organization fearful for its leaderary life. a deputy urged bin laden to quote, make the period between contacts longer and further apart apart. take excessive caution and care especially this year. that warning wasn t enough to save the terror leader. the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden. just a few weeks after it was sent, the cia trablged bin laden to his compound in pakistan and may 1, 2011 navy s.e.a.l.s shot him in the head. another stunning revelation, the papers showed al qaeda tried to cut a deal with pakistan s intelligence service known as isi. apparently cease-fire discussions fell through. as you know the packkistani government maintains they had no idea bin laden was hiding in its country. in abbottabad. thanks very much for that. let s get some analysis. joining us our cnn national security analyst peter bergen