i mean, i think obviously it was an execution. we found out yesterday there was only one guy with a weapon. the navy s.e.a.l.s could have taken him down with a cross bow. they could have choked bin lad with within his own beard. third question, the week is ending. we ve had a few days to digest all of this. what does osama bin laden s death really mean? dana. well, we study images all over the television. i think it s fantastic that everybody was able to realize that this was the ultimate triumph of good over evil. we took out the head of a terrorist organization and it sends a loud message that it may take a few years, but we ll track you down and find you in whatever rat hole you live. i hope it means that osama bin laden and his evil ways become a footnote in history.
he considered bin laden s death an execution. after world war ii, we didn t go in and put a bullet to the head of all the top nazis. we put them on trial, took them to newer enburg and put them on trial and said, this is important for the world to see these criminals. it is important for history to have a record of what they did. we are at a point now where we don t, what do we need a trial for, just get rid of him. the second you say that, you are saying that you hate being an american. you hate what we stand for. you hate what our constitution stands for. we stand for something different than that. we are better than them. we don t just operate in an uncivilized way the way they did on 9/11. you can see more of piers morgan s interview with michael moore. piers morgan at cnn.com/video. that s where you can find it. president obama released his original birth certificate last week. he won over a lot of birthers.
boredom, without tiredness, that they will continue this fight as osama bin laden had been fighting. they are calling him a martyr and they are calling on the pakistanists here to clean the shame of pakistan, ie, that he was killed inside pakistan. they are saying this was the work of traitors and they are calling on the pakistan to clean up their shame. this is al qaeda recognizing that their leader is dead and capitalizing on that now. calling him a martyr and calling their supporters to continue the fight, to vow to continue the fight, to focus it on the united states and also saying in this statement that the people of the united states in america will have no rest, no peace until they say the people of palestine have peace. so this has been part of al qaeda s message in the past. it seems this is osama bin laden death is going to make no difference 679 they are going to keep up their fight. was president obama s
can you tell us more about that. it is fascinating because leon panetta had said even when they went ahead with this operation, they were only 60%-80% sure that bin laden lived in that house. a very tall guy, obviously. i gather that the angle that they had to observe from didn t allow them to estimate the exact height of the people walking around. so they were aware that a man came out regularly for 20 minutes and sometimes as long as hour-long walks just around the compound inside the wall but they never were able to get a line on him to determine for certain that it was him. but he was taller than, you know, the average, i guess, saudi, because that s where osama bin laden was from. so they suspected it might be osama bin laden. at what point did they have enough information, do you think, that president obama decided to go forward with the
we want to return to osama bin laden s unlikely neighbors, a cia surveillance team that reportedly spent months watching the compound where osama bin laden lived and died. scott shane is here with us. we were told that there was a line of sight to the compound. of course, they had to move into this place. apparently, move in a lot of photographic equipment and other kinds of spy gear without attracting the attention not only of the people in the bin laden compound but also pakistani intelligence and police who, of course, didn t know that the cia was on to this house. fascinating.