a garrison city. basically just means that sit a military city. it is a city intensely populated with both military personnel, retired military personnel and military facilities. in a country where the military and the intelligence service are the most powerful forces around, where they run everything. where they're way more in control than the nominal government is, where khalid mohammed and osama bin laden were found where were those people live. where the nation's elite live. where the nation's military officers live. these garrison cities. both of these guys caught in nice, big houses in garrison cities dpr which that country's elite military and intelligence personnel have been telling the united states that terrorism is over. that bin laden was nowhere in sight. that there was no use looking for bin laden anymore, particularly in pakistan because bin laden was probably already dead. as recently as two weeks ago, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff while he was in pakistan, he directly accused pack stab's intelligence service of support

the civilian government in pakistan but given the proximity of osama bin laden's compound to the garrison cityn afghanistan, i think a lot of questions will be asked. >> and the figure head of al- qaeda has now been eliminated. >> thatright. a major milestone and accomplishment. >> representative chris van hollen from maryland. thank you so much for coming in. >>> and the president obama and his national security team monitored the raid in pakistan and you can see their anxious expressions in a photo as they gathered in the white house situation room to see the play- by-play of how it would go down. president and his advisors able to hear and watch the fire fight as it happened. in the wake of the al-qaeda leader's death, local law enforcement now stepping up security around the nation's capital. officers have been ordered to patrol the grounds of the capital, the mall and downtown area. the naval observatory where the vice president lives and the embassy of pakistan as well. and metro has promised to conduct additional random bag searches. >> that is always a possibility once we get the appro

navy seals in the pakistani garrison city of abbottabad killed the terrorist mastermind.n laden's killing was proper justice. he rejected claims that pakistani authorities were either incompetent in searching for bin laden or complicit in hiding him, and expressed full confidence in the country's armed forces and intelligence establishment t. much more straight ahead right after the break. a live look from our mount tam camp, it is a sparkling day. cooler but we will warm up mid-week. >> justine: educators of san francisco rallied before leaving for san francisco today, it will participate incidents at the capitol. kron fours has more from san francisco. >> craig: teachers will rally at the capitol but first they made their point in san francisco. merging several blocks to san francisco school district office governor brown going round and round about whether not to extend tax-most teachers face larger tax cuts. her if you're looking at a change in revenue. >> we hope they will see and hear our message. >> they're putting the tax question on the ballot. union wants a legi

>> well, it is really extraordinary and not just two cities, in military garrisons and, remember that khalid shaikh mohammed, the previous high-value target was also found in a military garrison near islamabad. these are extremely important questions to ask, and pakistan, we're going to ask whether they're going to hold those responsible accountable, whether there will be a meaningful investigation into what happened, whether there will be heads that roll, but more importantly, whether they will change their strategic view that india is a bigger threat to them than terrorism and al qaeda, which is what they believe right now. >> well, maybe the pakistanis should have listened to you, christiane, back in 2008. i want to play a clip of a video from "realtime with bill maher" when you were on the show in 2008 when you specifically said that one of your sources said bin laden wasn't in a cave in afghanistan but rather in a villa in pakistan. let's take a look. >> i wish. >> he's in a cave somewhere. >> he's not. i just talked to somebody very knowledgeable. >> she knows osama bin laden? >

almost no one expected to find him living a life of relative luxury in a major city next to a military garrison. the united states had been trying to kill bin laden for 13 years, since the administration of president clinton. >> bin laden has been our national enemy, self-declared, for far longer than any other one person in our history. >> reporter: the son of a prominent and wealthy saudi family, bin laden first went to afghanistan to fight the russians but then turned on the united states. on his orders, thousands died in the 1998 attacks on two u.s. embassies in africa. in the attack on the "uss cole" in yemen in 2000 and the 9/11 attacks of which he seemed so proud. the discovery of bin laden's hiding place in a million dollar mansion in pakistan was the result of a masterful cia intelligence operation that focused on the courier who was his connection to the outside world. >> we were able to piece together additional information. associate that then eventually with his real name. and track it until we got to the compound in abbottabad. >> reporter: every video or audio message recorded by

question is how was he able to hide essentially in plain sight inhe middle of a major city that is the adquartersf a garrison for the pakistan military. who in the pakistan government knew he was there? >> rose: and do the americans assume that it is an operative fact that somebody high up in pakistan had to know? >> yes, they do. the comments today by the president's national security advisor john brennan were very pointed, raising the question, he says, which should be raised, about who in pakistan knew this. people we've talked to say they again and again raised those issues with the pakistani officials saying someone in this room knows where bin laden is. they've always denied he was in pakistan, now the proof is that he was, in fact, there, just aboua mile down from their version of a west point, the pakistan military academy. >> rose: what else do you ask yourself 24 hours after we know this? >> well, i'm also interested to know xa what actually is the impact on sdmaeld does this really cripple them is the symbolic loss significant or do they see him as a martyr now and step up their level of attacks?

not have known that bin laden was living a life of relevant luxury, in the middle of a city with a major army garrison. u.s. officials believe bin laden had lived in his million-dollar mansion for the last five or six years, without a peep from the pakistani army generals just down the road. >> i think there's elements in the pakistani army or the interservices intelligence directorate, who knew where he was, if they wanted to. >> reporter: the compound had no telephone or internet connections, as bin laden observed a radio silence. >> he learned to stay away from cell phones and traceable technology. >> reporter: so, the cia began a masterful operation, to focus on the currier who picked up and delivered bin laden's video and audio messages to the world. >> we were able to get the name he was known by. and associate that with his real name and track it, until we got to the compound. >> reporter: each additional message provided new clues, including one last october, that remarkably focused on the flooding of abbottabad, the very city where the suspected hiding place, was already under surveillance. >

city named abbottabad. this is home of a major military garrison. ght here is the pakistani military academy, their version of west point. the bin laden compound was just down here. bin laden wasn't hiding in a cave, but in a pakistani city of 90,000 people. abbottabad, just north of the pakistani capital. tracking one of his trusted couriers, the cia discovered a compound with 12 to 18-foot wall, no telephones, but eight times the size of other homes in the area. just off major highway. the president gave the order for the u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s to go in. even though bin laden was never once actually seen in the compound. >> after a fire fight, they killed osama bin laden, and took custody of his body. >> reporter: the fbi confirmed it was bin laden through a dna match to one of his sisters, who died in boston of cancer, whose brain was taken into custody for just that purpose. u.s. officials say the pakistani military was not informed of the operation beforehand. there will be a lot of questions about that, how they could not know what was going on in