bin laden has a great back story. my name is peter bergen. i met osamastern afghanistan in march of 1997. >> reporter: peter bergen, a cnn consultant, is the author of "the osama bin laden i know." this documentary is based in part on his groundbreaking reporting. >> he is the son of a billionaire who lives a frugal, simple life. he's sleeping on a floor. he's not using air conditioning. won't even drink cold water. >> reporter: an heir to one of saudi arabia's wealthiest families, he did not want to stand out. at least not yet. >> he doesn't like really to be a leader. never put himself in a position to be a leader. >> reporter: but that would soon change. bin laden was about to be swept up in a movement that would carry him from student to the leader of a holy war. it was a religious movement, one that would pit young muslims against the establishment. it was called sawa, or the islamic awakening. >> it was the sahwar, at that time it's all about religion and about how to practice islam. >> the sahwar was the islamic awakening of the 1970s. it was part

. >>> more than a decade after the osama bin laden attacks ordered by osama bin laden there is prideound zero. the new world trade center reaches a milestone, becoming the tallest building . >> reporter: 21 feet taller than the empire state building. >> it's inspirational. and it's going to make a lot of people happy. >> reporter: it took a while after september 11th for construction to get started but eventually in a rate of a new floor every week, the tower started to become part of the new york skyline. >> you're not going to stop america. we're going to rebuild. we're going to keep going. >> sends chills up your spine when you think about what happened. >> reporter: this building is all glass, windows floor to sealing all the way around. the tower is one of many buildings under construction at the site which is also home to the september 11th museum. >> it's an act of passion and an act of patriotic beauty. >> reporter: when the needle is added the tower will top out at 1,776 feet. making it the tallest building in the united states. right now the tallest building in the u.s. is

team six raided osama bin laden's compound in pakistan. that's tonight, 9:00 eastern on nbc. >>> still ahead on "way too early," republicans continue to criticize president obama for gloating over the death of osama bin laden. well, jon stewart sees a little hypocrisy and wonders what it would have looked like had george bush fwn the one to get the job done. that coming up. >>> the bulls play without derrick rose, the mvp who tore up his knee during the first game of the playoffs. that and a check on weather when "way too early" comes back. >> tony blair, the 43-year-old laelder of the labour party joined the celebration. >> serve we will with all our heart and all our mind! ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] virtual wallet can help you be that person who's good with money. see what's free to spend. move money with a slide. save with a shake. feel good about your decisions. but do you really? [ female announcer ] neutrogena® makeup remover erases 99% of your most stubborn makeup with one towelette. can your makeup remover do that? [ female announcer

later and all of them headed in different directions so the host never came to know exactly where osama bin laden went. it raises several question, for example, what was osama bin laden doing here and why was he traveling there? and who was planning his itinerary? and how did he manage to get past those dozens of security check points at the time when several military check points were going on in the area. there was suggestions a pakistani official had been helping bin laden, but this is something both the pakistani government and military have consistently denied. >> at least six people including a policeman has been wounded in the area. and in islamabad, do we know anymore about these blasts? >> well, certainly we don't know who carried them out, but there were explosion in the early morning and some of them at a.t.m. cash machines. there was one small explosion outside a safari bar. so an unusual type of attacked and people were expecting them today because of it being the anniversary of osama bin laden's death. >> given that and president obama's visit to afghanistan, just wanted to ask you

. >> ask osama bin laden if he is better now than he was four years ago. [ cheering ] >> osama eneral motors is alive. >> eliot: could be the slogan that gets the president rerecollect elected. meanwhile, republicans by and large refrain from mentioning bin laden, the former secretary of state condoleezza rice had this to say after her speech to the convention crowd. >> we can argue the successes of one administration or the other. much of the machinery put in place to kilo sam bin laden to deal with al-qaeda was put in after the immediate aftermath and it's two administrations that we have to credit to deal with al-qaeda. >> eliot: joining me now borris epshteyn and m margie omero for joining me. the republican party is saying that the president is overplaying his hand on the osama bin laden claims that are being made. do you think that's fair to say. >> it's fair game for the president to take credit where credit is due. just like condoleezza rise said it's a credit to this administration and the prior administration to put in the policies, and this president did put in the or

. >> the death of osama bin laden. >> it was here where osama bin laden established a safe haven for his terrorist organization. >> let's not make the capture or killing of osama bin laden a politically divisive event. >> in new york city with rudy giuliani. >> the man dubbed america's mayor. >> good to be here with rudy giuliani. >> with rudy giuliani at a firehouse. >> this on the anniversary of the day that osama bin laden finally was taken out. >> is there a little bit of hypocrisy. >> trying to politicize this. >> disappointing. >> all i want to do is say thank you. >> he was decisive, he made the right decision. >> a very courageous call that made. >> look what the result was. >> and killed by a drone strike. >> president obama. >> troops out of iraq. >> president succeeded. >> president planning for withdraw from afghanistan. >> our commander-in-chief gave the order. >> these are, are they not, considerable achievements for this president? >> god bless you. god bless the united states of america. now i want to shake some hands. >> the breaking news at this hour is that pre

he was asked another question that was interesting about the politicalization of the osama bin laden raid, given that he was at a fire station on the anniversary of osama bin laden's death. and he again attacked the president for politicizing this issue. not he or mayor giuliani. >> thank you. quickly, even in these times people wonder who is the winner or the loser in this. i refer to the fact you talk to people all day on the radio. are we all winners because you have the man who was the most wanted terrorist who took the lives of 3,000 people in new york city alone, that this is the day that his life was taken. >> well, you're right. i think in that observation. let's not lose sight of the fact that it was, i don't want to say happy but celebratory in a way, one year ago tonight. we thank s.e.a.l. team 6 for putting the hammer down. and we thank president obama for what was at the time a very difficult decision. i think that's the wrap-up and that's what i'm hearing from people who are calling me. >> thank you, chuck, thank you for around. i greatly appreciate it. >>> we are follow

afghanistan then became a safe haven for terrorists like osama bin laden to plot the 9/11 attacks. >> and a year ago we were able to finally bring osama bin laden to justice. (cheers and applause) >> reporter: the president also used this trip to meet with troops and express his gratitude. >> you've earned a special place in our hearts and i could not be prouder to be your commander-in-chief. >> reporter: and, scott, it was just four and a half hours before the president actually landed in afghanistan that news of his trip actually leaked out, starting from an afghan broadcaster. it was then picked up online but advisors say that the president was never in any danger and we didn't see him change his schedule at all, despite this security breach. >> pelley: they usually keep those things secret until the president lands. norah, i wonder, with the speech being scheduled tonight on the anniversary of bin laden's death, one might ask whether this has been carefully timed for the u.s. presidential election. >> reporter: well, there are some republicans who are going to charge that-- and ha

are told they signed a strategic partnership agreement on the way year marking of the death of osama bin« ladenneighboring pakistan. this week the defense department reported that pakistan remains "a safe haven," for militants. bin laden was living with his family near pakistan's version of west point we are told before forces killed him there, some american lawmakers accused pakistani army of playing both sides. both with al qaeda. and the united states. which all of the evidence indicates is exactly what they were doing. and, now we are learning that pakistanis have not answered one tough question: did their security forces protect the world's most wanted terrorist? keep in mind the united states has given to pakistan, listen now, we have given to pakistan $22 billion in united states taxpayer money over the past decade. $22 billion. to pakistan. and now, like from the site of the former home in pakistan. dominic? >>reporter: some elements of pakistan's spy agency former element of pakistani spy agency must have been part of the support network. that is the key conclusion from what will onlie

bin laden's death. the u.s. government says osama bin laden's death was a crippling blow to al qaeda that is still being felt today. >> they're struggling to attract new recruits. morale is low. in short, al qaeda is losing badly. >> reporter: on the evening of may 1st, the navy s.e.a.l.s launched a daring raid on osama bin laden's compound. they stuffed a big bag full of documents and provide owes. it provided insight into bin laden's operations. he was particularly worried about drone strikes. >> in documents we seized he confessed to disaster after disaster. he even urged his leaders to flee their tribal regions and to go away from aircraft, photography, and bombardment. >> reporter: ahead of the anniversary, a political battle ensued when the obama campaign launched a web ad. it suggested mitt romney would not have authorized the attack on osama bin laden. romney is firing back. >> would you have gone after osama bin laden? >> you would have given the order, governor? >> even jimmy carter would have given that order. >> reporter:

romney campaign accusing obama of playing politics with the kill of osama bin laden. this new ad featuring bill clinton. take a look. >> suppose navy s.e.a.l.s had gone in there and it hasn't been bin laden . the down side would have been horrible. but he reasoned. he took the harder and more honorable path. and the one that produced in my win i don't know the best result. >> that ad then goes on to suggest mitt romney might not have gotten bin laden. p the romney campaign says it goes too far. >> this is one of the reasons president obama has become one of the most divisive presidents in american history. he took something that was a unifying event for all americans and he's managed to turn it into a divisive partisan political attack. >> let's talk more about this with our political power panel. debbie dingle, morris especially seen and perry bacon. great to see all of you. republicans accuse the president of really spiking the football on this will. is that far? no pictures of the president with a accomplish accomplished banner waving behind him and isn't that the m

bin laden. >> let's not make the capture or killing of osama bin laden a politically divisive event. >> even jimmy carter would have given that order. >> i recommend that people take a look at peel's previous statements. the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden. >> we have breaking news at this very moment. we understand the president is in afghanistan. this on the first anniversary of the killing of osama bin laden. we understand that he traveled there overnight. there was something of a "meet the press" and media blackout but we are able to confirm the president is indeed in afghanistan. i'm joined now by kristen welker who is at the white house. please tell us what do you know? what have you heard? >> hi there. good afternoon to you. we can tell you that president obama arrived in afghanistan in kabul at 2:39 p.m. our time, which is 11:09 in afghanistan. right now, he is at the afghan presidential palace with president hamid karzai. we're just getting this information so i'll read it to you. he is there to sign the strategic partnership agreement which is essenti

clarissa, you were in abbottabad where osama bin laden was killed, and i'm wondering what do the folks there today say about the american raid? >> reporter: well, it's quite astonishing, scott. one year later, many people still do not believe that osama bin laden was living in that city. they certainly don't believe that he was killed by that u.s. navy seal raid there. short of seeing proof, they say they simply can't fathom that it would be possible. obviously, this is a part of the world that is big on conspiracy theories. and even those people who do believe that osama bin laden was living there and was killed there are more angered than anything else by the fact that the u.s. violated pakistan's sovereign integrity by staging that raid. >> pelley: clarissa, thank you very much. the mission to kill bin laden was run from c.i.a. headquarters, and the man in charge that night was leon panetta. it was panetta who described events as they unfolded to the president at the white house. for an interview for "60 minutes," we asked panetta for an insider's view of the plan to get the man tha

team 6 had taken out the most wanted criminal in the world, osama bin laden. so this happening on the one year death anniversary of osama bin laden. we have john king standing by in washington with a little bit more on the news here. john, clear this up for me. we know that he has just arrived in afghanistan. what more do we know and the purpose of the trip here? >> reporter: the white house is obviously being careful about the tick tock of the president's movements because of security concerns, but we can report that the president has landed safely in afghanistan, he flu there year night from the the united states. obviously he is there on the one year anniversary of the raid across the border in pakistan that led to the death of osama bin laden. we also know the president will address the nation tonight in the 7:00 hour, 7:30 p.m., he will address the nation from afghanistan. and we know while there he is scheduled to meet with the afghan president, hamid karzai and the two ledder leaders ared to sign a extstrategic agreemen between the two countries. this wo

this is osama bin laden's beyond this life and reportedly his favorite. she was shot and the like trying to defend him. she told interrogators the al qaeda leaders spent nine years on pakistan and soil, moving location five times. four of her children were born here, two of them in government hospitals. now osama bin laden's widows and children can start packing their bags. their lawyer emerge to welcome the verdict, alongside her brother. i before speeding away, they gave us their reaction. >> all of the five accused had been sentenced to 1.5 months in prison. the government has been directed to deport them. >> are you satisfied with the verdict? >> we are very satisfied. >> osama bin laden brother and moss said the judges had been fair, the windows were looking forward to going home. -- the widows were looking forward to going home. the women will serve only two more weeks because they have spent the past month in official detention. the women will be freed, but not yet. until they are deported, there will remain in pakistani custody. probably he read t

i wonder whether osama bin laden knew this was at stake and he stopped doing this. what makes it more intriguing is that the 2010 letter from osama bin laden -- he was reluctant. he made a mistake. if that is the case, why did he bring on the fold? the letters are open to interpretation. the -- it could be addressed to us some of the maya. it seems to be about osama bin laden's refuses to admit -- this offer is critical of the fact then -- the more we include, this is a sign of god. i have a suspicion it may not be who we think it is. it would not reject the be wrong. >> before i turn it over to the audience, i want to ask you a question about this process. this 17 documents, reportedly several thousand were captured. it you made the appropriate provisos about how you understand 17 documents and replace them with the context of other stuff that was not released and even then, what do you not see? what is the value of declassifying releasing this information to us? this has come up and there of folks to criticize this process. i am a supporter of this kind of disclosu

. >> pelly: who shot osama bin laden. tonight for the first time, you will hear his account of the raid on bin laden's compound. are these guys yelling and charging up the stairs? is there a lot of action? how is it unfolding? >> you know, it's not like the movies. movies make it out to be loud and crazy and everybody's yelling. quiet, calm. >> pelly: you're walking up the stairs? >> yep, nice and slow. we have a saying, "don't run to your death." >> pelly: it's extremely rare to hear from a member of seal team six, but mark owen walks us through the most important counter-terrorism strike in u.s. history, including the moment that osama bin laden was killed. >> we both engaged him several more times and then rolled off and then continued clearing the room. >> pelly: when you say you "engaged him," what do you mean? >> fire. >> pelly: you shot him? >> yeah. >> i'm steve kroft. >> i'm lesley stahl. >> i'm morley safer. >> i'm bob simon. >> i'm lara logan. >> i'm scott pelley. that story tonight on "60 minutes." ♪ [ telepho

what we said we would go after al qaeda and been -- osama bin laden, we did. >> osama bin laden is dead and general motors is a life. >> claims of victory for killing osama bin laden have prompted these attacks. >> mr. president, you did not kill osama bin laden. america did. the work the american military has done killed osama bin laden. >> the ads running online and soon on tv are made by a group called opsec. >> he admits the president did make the executive decision, but he says he is more angry about the administration's alleged leaks of classified intel. >> fortunately we're not still in uniform and we can express this. >> an obama spokesman said republicans are resorting to a swift boat tactics because -- swift boat tactics, the ads that questioned john kerry's actions in vietnam and some say the trilled his -- derailed his campaign. >> the obama team points out the president of opsec is a republican from virginia that recently ran for congress. they insist they are a nonpartisan group that has democrats as members. >> thank you. the gop is celebrating a small political victory.

give that order and finally rid this earth of osama bin laden. ask osama bin laden if he is better off now than he was four years ago! >> sean: senator john -- i voted for the $87 billion before i voted against it, was one of the many democrats who took the democratic national convention stage to praise barack obama for the osama bin laden raid. but he failed to say that barack obama opposed nearly every one of the programs and methods that helped our intelligence community locate the terror mastermind. his stance on waterboarding. >> waterboarding is torture. it's contrary to america's traditions, it is contrary do our ideals. that's not who we are. that's not how we operate. we don't need it, in order to prosecute the war on terrorism. we did the right thing by ending that practice.

confiesa owen que no reconociÓ a osama bin laden un niÑo primero lo identificÓ, y le pegunto al menorosa que se puede decir, es un secreto que no e no se deberÍa haber revelado, educa al enemiga cÓmo funcionan estas tropas impoltanpteseo. >>> el ex marine le tomÓ fotos a osama bin laden ya muerto, y limpiÓ al terrorista con agua, y sabanas, su objetivo era que se viera el rostro lo mÁs claro posible, y buscÓ el mejor Ángulo, y tomÓ fotografÍas, las mÁs importantes de su vida que todavÍa no revelÓ. >>> impresionante. >>> gracias vilma. >>> denuncian que presos que murieron quemados en honduras, tenÍan balazos en el cuerpo. >>> rescatan a menores en manos de un grupo armado en perÚ. >>> capturan en colombia un enlace del cartel del narcotravico. >>> esperamos comentarios en facebook, y twitter, utilice el numeral ediciÓn nocturna, en pantalla mÁs adelante. ♪. ♪. >>> fÍjense que surgieron detalles de la tragedia ocurrida en un penal, que se incendio en honduras, mÁs de 360 presos murieron en febrero. se trata de un video de dos empleados de medicina forense, y alimenta denuncias de famil

on with american national security people to get somebody to give some information as to where osama bin laden was, to get their hands on osama bin laden. >> well, i mean my humble opinion, mark did an extraordinary job of reporting this and then out of the reporting turning this into an incredibly dramatic screen play. i'm the recipient of that trying to transform those pages into a screen. but early on and again indemnify understanding from the first hand accounts, there was a courier that was somebody that in the case of this movie, the woman in the intelligence community decided to focus on. >> rose: played by jessica -- >> beautifully played by jessica chastain, she pursued the courage, the conviction that there was something in this lead. there are multiple leads that various people are tracking but there was something in this lead. she has a theory that there were two, when they were acquiring information, there were two individuals that, whose whereabouts were withheld. and that was the courier and that was osama bin laden. everybody else there was information on. so that was significa

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it would've been trying to get one of the children of osama bin laden in the house so they could establish whether someone who's genetically related to him was there. >> dr. shakil afridi, shortly after the killing of osama bin laden, was arrested and essentially disappear. you went back to track down his family members. you discovered it interesting history of the family in terms of other western powers in the region. >> absolutely. it was a good reminder of how long the history of western imperialism involvement in the frontier regions of afghanistan and pakistan has been. dr. shakil afridi's maternal grandfather won the victoria cross fighting for the british in the trenches during world war i. and the brother of his maternal grand uncle led the first recorded defection to german lines during world war i. yet is world famous hero and world famous trader in his past. cox and what happened to dr. shakil afridi afterwards? in may, two top lawmakers warned pakistan over the sentencing of the doctor was sentenced to 30 years in prison for setting up the vaccination effort in an effort to get

so osama bin laden's death is a valid campaign issue. d be problems that we as americans have and are struggling with today. this from gordon, if he was still alive i'm pretty sure it would be a huge issue with the republicans. and this from aaron, it may distract from the real issues of the well being of the country but it's a grand accomplishment. mention it but don't go overboard. please continue the conversation.

mission to get osama bin laden, and suddenly the dead osama bin laden has become issue one in the presidential campaign. >> president obama is not convinced. >> i just recommend that everybody take a look at people's previous statements in terms of whether they thought it was appropriate to go into pack -- pakistan and take out bin laden. i assume that people meant what they said when they said it. that's been at least my practice. i said that i'd go after bin laden if we had a clear shot at him, and i did. if there are others who have said one thing and now suggest they do something else, then i'd go ahead and let them explain. >> here is what senator barack obama said during his first presidential campaign in 2007 about being willing to violate if necessary pakistan's sovereignty to get osama bin laden. >> if we had actionable intelligence about high-valued targets and president musharraf won't act, we will. >> just four days after that, the 2007 version of presidential candidate mitt romney said, i do not concur in the words of barack obama in a plan to enter an ally of ours. tonight on fox

clear, brave decision, empowered the remarkable men and women in our military to go get and kill osama bin laden. look, joe biden's right. osama bin laden is, indeed, dead. gm is not just alive, it's the number one automaker in the world. i can assure you that, too, wouldn't have been the case had mitt romney been president of the united states. >> so it's a question, though, of whether president obama is being consistent about his belief about all of this. back in 2008, you were facing hillary clinton in a hard fought primary campaign. and she ran an ad that featured an image of osama bin laden. it was part of an ad questioning whether senator obama was prepared to be president. and at the time, the spokesman for the obama campaign, bill burton, said the following about that ad. quote, it's ironic that she -- meaning hillary clinton -- would borrow the president's tactics in her own campaign and invoke bin laden to score political points. we already have a president that plays the politics of fear and we don't need another. is president obama being hypocritical with this ad today? >> this isn't

this is osama bin laden's youngest wife and reportedly his favor. she was shot in the leg trying to defend him. according to this police report, she told interrogators he spent nine years on pakistani soil, and moving location five times. four of her children were born here. two of them in government hospitals. now his widows and children can start packing their bags. their lawyer emerged to welcome the verdict. before speeding away, he gave us their reaction. >> all the five accused of been sentenced to 1.5 months in prison and fined a we have submitted. we're very satisfied with the verdict. >> osama bin laden's brother-in- law said the judges had been fair and that the widows were looking forward to going home. but they are happy with the verdict -- >> they are happy with the verdict. >> the women will serve only two more weeks. they've spent the last month in official detention. the women will be freed but not yet. it is reported they will remain in pakistan because to the, probably at this house. -- it is reported they will remain in pakistani

this picture shows the tension situationte house that the confirmation osama bin laden had been killed. >> osama bin laden no longer planet todayn this f that brave decision. >> the president's reelection is reminding america. >> osama bin laden is dead and motors is alive. >> it was mr. obama who ordered the raid. enlisting former president clinton, releasing new video that mitt romney made the same decision. >> i do not want to buy into the democratic pitch that this is about one person. >> we should point out that mitt give the president the raid.er >> any president would have done that. >> the one area that the can boast about. he cannot really boast about the economy. the mitt romney campaign calls the new attack sad. >> we are seeing the stifling effect of excessive government regulations, a constant call for taxes. economy is said the improving. -- >> expert said the economy is improving. >> there is a term for guys like obama.nt not two terms. [laughter] >> obama supporters point out that the total motorists bailout saved thousands of jobs. this week, expect the obama camp abou