online. it includes digital, audio, video files, printed materials, handwritten documents and recording devices. peter bergen has a new book out called manhunt and he is one of the few people outside of the government that s seen these documents. what sticks out to you? u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s recovered a great deal of material. not all of it will be published today, in fact. a fraction of it. some of it is household stuff. but the things that leaked out of the documents that i was able to review, first of all, bin laden was quite conscious of al qaeda as a brand had suffered. he told them not to use al qaeda, you re going to draw too much negative attention. he was advising one of his sons to leave the afghanistani tribal regions where the drones were focused at the same time he s calling for young men to do a holy war, he was basically telling his own son to get out of dodge. it s bin laden unplugged. he was it s not like you can get on the internet and send a memo or call
his mother overcome with grief. fans asking if the game he loved contributed to his death. a hero throws a tackle in a walmart parking lot. the iraq war vet trying to stop a suspect with a knife who took a woman s purse. but up first, al qaeda unmasked. in just four hours, the world gets to see a massive stack of documents from osama bin laden s compound. for the last 12 months, the documents were analyzed by intelligence officials and this morning, at 9:00 a.m. eastern they ll be posted online. we re told the information includes digital, audio and video files, printed materials, recording devices and handwritten documents. nic robertson live in london this morning. nic, peter bergen previewed those bin laden documents. in them, osama bin laden says we need to extend and develop our operations in america and not keep it limited to only blowing up airplanes. it s terrifying. reporter: it s absolutely terrifying. one of those documents, he says, specifically to his sor