base in jalalabad, afghanistan, to abbottabad, about 150 miles away.copters were blacked out against a clear, moonless night. the army pilots, guided by night vision goggles, flew high speed, treetop level, under pakistani radar. >> owen: it was roughly an hour and a half. i remember... you know, we took off, shut the doors, and... and the radio call i heard was... you know, "hey, we're... we're over the border. we're crossing the border into pakistan." and i remember thinking, "wow, this is... okay, this is happening." and... and i swear, i glance around the helicopter and... and half the guys are sitting there asleep on the ride in. it was an hour and a half ride, so guys got to catch... catch a few zs on the way in. >> pelley: wait a minute. your team is flying in to osama bin laden's compound, and they're asleep? >> owen: yeah, no, it's your... it's your time to just kind of shut your eyes, relax, you know? mentally walk through whatever you need to walk through. >> pelley: it was about 1:00 in the morning, 66 degrees, 65% humidity, with calm winds

they would fly from afghanistan in two modified blackhawk helicopters to bin laden's compound in abbottabadstan. pakistan didn't know they were coming. it was flown by the 160th special operations aviation regiment, flew at treetop level on a moonless night to avoid pakistani air defenses. owen showed us on a model that we built how they reached the target and prepared to slide down ropes into the compound, but then everything went wrong in owen's chopper. >> we banked hard 90 degrees. once we went hard 90, it was very apparent that something was wrong. >> something about the downdraft hitting the complex of walls below caused the heavily-loaded helicopter to falter in the air. >> these pilots are the best in the world. you don't get better than these guys. typically, they move right in and they stick it. it's like parking a car for these guys. it was a rough, rough ride. so something was obviously going on. tail rotor and everything happened to miss this wall here. we were sliding and falling out of the sky this way. at this point, i was pretty sure we were going in. >> going to crash? >>

they would fly from afghanistan in two modified blackhawk helicopters to bin laden's compound in abbottabad pakistan. pakistan didn't know they were coming. the helicopters, flown by the army's 160th special operations aviation regiment flew at tree top level on a moon-less night to avoid pakistani air defenses. owen showed us on a model that we built how they reached the target and prepared to slide down ropes into the compound, but then everything went wrong in owen's chopper. >> all of a sudden we banked hard 90 degrees. once we went hard 90, it was very apparent something was wrong. >> pelley: something about the downdraft hitting the complex of walls below caused the heavily loaded helicopter to falter in the air. >> these pilots are "the" best in the world. you don't get any better than these guys. typically, boom, they move right in and they stick it. it's like parking a car for these guys. it was a rough, it was a rough ride. so something was obviously going wrong. happened to miss this wall here. then we were just kind of sliding and falling out of the sky this way. at this point i

to be implicated, sentenced to 30-plus years for helping the cia apparently locate bin laden in abbottabadad a conversation. here's what she told me. >> this doctor who is portrayed to be a hero over here has come in the way of being able to ensure that polio is no longer prevalent in pakistan. he did not know that he was on this grand mission to get obl. >> this has provoked a firestorm. a lot of angry reaction in the u.s. to the pakistani's arrest of this doctor. what do you make of this controversy? >> reporter: it makes a lot of sense. the cia would not tell anybody who didn't need to know that this is a g-20 quet bin lad this is a "get bin laden" mission. he's been charged and convicted on a slightly different supposed crime which is he, rather than treason, they've said that he was helping the taliban. in reality, this doctor was actually kidnapped by the taliban and actually gave them medical services, is my understanding, as a result of his kidnapping. be that as it may, jonathan pollard is still in an american prison spying for a foreign power, even a nominally friendly one is a c

. >> they would fly from afghanistan in blackhawk helicopters to bin laden's compound in abbottabad pakistanan didn't know they were coming. the helicopters, flown by the army's 160th special operations aviation regiment through at treetop level on a moonless night to avoid pakistani air defenses. owen showed us on a model that we built how they reached the target and prepared to slide down ropes into the compound, but then everything went wrong in owen's chopper. >> all of a sudden, we banked hard 90 degrees. once we went hard 90, it was apparent something was wrong. >> something about the downdraft hitting the complex of walls below caused the heavily loaded helicopter to falter in the air. >> these pilots are the best in the world. you don't get better than these guys. tiply they move in and stick it. it's like parking a car for these guys. it was rough. it was rough ride. so something was obviously going on. tail rotor happened to miss this wall here and then we were kind of sliding and falling out of the sky this way. at this point, i was pretty sure we were definitely going in. >> goin

the top leadership, military, intelligence, and civilians, did not know osama bin laden was in abbottabad. all of us were exhausted from staying up a whole night. it was a punch drunk meeting. the first thing they said was congratulations. they realize someone who they were against and wanted to see gone was gone. it was only a few days after that that they realize that the political price the military was paying that that became manifest, when public american commentators said you are either implicit or incompetent, it happen to be true. it put them very much on the spot. the response by those pakistanis who had committed to working with us, who had --mitted to the post in the summer of 200011, when the general decided to ask us to take away the 150 trainers, who were trading the pakistan military in insurgency operations, i personally went to the general and said, are you aware that under american law, when you ask these people to leave, and i know you are doing this because you want to show you are not in the american pocket, we have to take with us the material, the actual assistance,

and you saw that in the abbottabad documents and when we conducted the raid on a osama bin laden.et started use -- he had started to lose control of the group. and it was so diminished that he was thinking about changing the very name of the organization. he had a list of all seven innings, which were all clunky, by the way, but -- he had a list of separate names, which for all all clunky, by the way. and then you have another group that sponsored the attempted attack in times square. most people think that is al qaeda, but it was the pakistani taliban. >> is -- host: is that the haqqani? guest: there are a number of affiliates and groups and drives that form part of those networks. you mention the haqqani network. that is one of the u.s. has now designated as an official foreign terrorist organization and one poses a major threat to stability in afghanistan and is behind many lethal attacks against our troops and afghan security forces. host: there is the president arriving for the memorial service there. just beyond those trees there will be the laying of the wreath with the pre

aid to pakistan until you free the doctor arrested in connection with the killing in abbottabad.stuff, what are you going to do? >> i had a long session with the foreign relations committee. and we are hopeful that we will be able to build on the relationship rather than break it. and, wolf, let me really take this opportunity and thank you for giving it to me to see that how can we -- a person up for hire including harming your interest and ours. this doctor who is portrayed to be a hero has come in the way of polio campaign in pakistan has come in the way of being able to ensure polio is no more prevalent in pakistan. >> but if he was trying to help the united states kill bin laden -- >> let me categorically tell you he did not know he was on this grand mission to get obl. getting obl was as much part of our plans and our effort as it was yours. so this is not what divides us. obl unites us. osama bin laden is a common enemy. terrorism is a common enemy. your people are dying, our people are dying even more than yours. these are all things that unite us. why do we portray them

many still want to see a full investigation to understand tow it was that he lived all the time in abbottabad with that your government apparently knowing about his presence. in terms of restoring trust a border you doing on this front? and also, yes, you say that these devastations are against an individual who made a film and not anti-american, but to what can you do to help americans feel that they can participate and help pakistan when there is a real security threat to many of them if they try to go out? >> first of all, as you know, we had an independent commission set up investigating this matter , and it is surprising because even though today is the age of deprivation, and information travels quickly, but what makes headlines typically did not make headlines. for instance, when it was found that he was living in the compound, the reaction was even more on style than in new york. even more shocked by it than you. however, you know that a lot of intelligence was gathered. here the pakistan the state or any agent of the state had no knowledge of it. awaiting the report of the commission

the top leadership, military, intelligence, and civilians, did not know osama bin laden was in abbottabad. all of us were exhausted from staying up a whole night. it was a punch drunk meeting. the first thing they said was congratulations. they realize someone who they were against and wanted to see gone was gone. it was only a few days after that that they realize that the political price the military was paying that that became manifest, when public american commentators said you are either implicit or incompetent, it happen to be true. it put them very much on the spot. the response by those pakistanis who had committed to working with us -- in the summer of 200011, when the general decided to ask us to take away the 150 trainers, who were trading the pakistan military in insurgency operations, i personally went to the general and said, are you aware that under american law, when you ask these people to leave, and i know you are doing this because you want to show you are not in the american pocket, we have to take with us the material, the actual assistance, the night vision goggles,

leaders, and i'm in the military and intelligence and also civilians did not know that he was in abbottabad. when mark grossman and i visited on may 2nd all of us were exhausted from staying of. so it was kind of a punched card meeting, but the first in the set was congratulations. they realize that someone who was against was gone. it was only in the days after that that they realized the political price that the institution, the military was paying, that that became manifest when a public american commentators said you're either implicit or incompetence. happened to be true, but it also happens to be something that put them very much on the spot. the pakistan needs, especially in the military and especially in the intelligence world, committed to the post 2008 effort to up break out of the narrative, they're the ones who suffered the most. we knew that there would be fallout from the raid. that's what it was. so into the summer of 2011 and decided there would ask us to take away the hundred 50 training -- trainers, the specialist forces we had who were training the pakistan military in co