now. people in the past week have described him as invincible and many could not believe that he was in fact dead. not all of them, many were certainly anti- bin laden claiming him for bringing war to their country and ruining the lives of thousands of people here. but when you see these images, it s very much at odds with the very carefully calculated image that bin laden has projected over the years. people are used to seeing him in a very forceful matter, a figure often seen wearing battle fatigues and carrying a gun, certainly not a man huddled over a television wearing a blanket in a nondescript room and certainly looking much older and much more frail. you re right, he s really going to shake up those perceptions of bin laden and the mythology that s built up around the man. it s 4:00 a.m. in kabul and probably too early for a reaction, as the u.s.
that there was a huge focus on the intelligence gathering in the united states, there was a blunder, that led to an overall of the intelligence gathering in the united states. the fact that pakistan, if we believe what we re hearing, missed osama bin laden living under its nose for five or six years, is that likely to lead to an overall in the pakistan intelligence service? this is a military and an army that takes pride behind the scenes in being the strongest institution in the country, and it s rarely questioned, but now not only are the questions coming globally from washington, now you re hearing questions
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of osama bin laden in the split second before he was killed? well, drew, i certainly can t confirm that and i ve got no direct knowledge that there is, i m just stating that the technology is there and i would certainly be surprised if it wasn t implemented. very interesting story with mary snow and interesting technology there, harris corporation. thank you for coming in. more on the osama bin laden videos is ahead. but first a disaster unfolding right here in the heartland of the united states. look at how people are running from the mississippi river as it floods to historic proportions. floodwaters are covering towns from missouri to louisiana. building up our wireless network all across america. we re adding new cell sites. increasing network capacity, and investing billions of dollars to improve your wireless network experience. from a single phone call to the most advanced data download, we re covering more people in more places than ever before in an effort to give you
more operationally involve than anybody really thought, that he continued to exert command and control over the al qaeda organization. some of this information may be helpful for u.s. authorities to go back after senior al qaeda leaders, perhaps ayman al zawahri, he remained in close contact with bin laden in recent years and was perhaps in relatively close geographic proximity, so someone like zawahri may be in some jeopardy right now. the mid level commanders of al qaeda in the tribal areas of pakistan, al qaeda kept some fire walls between them and zawahri and bin laden. western recruits who went to the able to lar tribal areas of pakistan, but this may help the united states go after some of these top leaders like zawahri who continued to be in contact with bin laden. it struck me at the time that