i'm fredricka whitfield along with jonathan mann. talking videotapes, dvds, thumb drive, all of that that were seized from osama bin laden's compound just shy of a week ago when he was target and killed by u.s. forces and today the pentagon intelligence officials revealed just a slice of that cache. >> in fact, the strangest home movies you're going to see today, including images of the al qaeda leader releasing recorded messages to the world. they were promising and threatening more terror. then there was a private video of him watching himself on television while he sits huddled up, crunched up under a blanket. another shows him in a robe. the pentagon says they're the biggest largest haul ever from a single source. >> pentagon correspondent barbara starr was there for the debriefing. she's with us now. what more can you tell us about the strategy of releasing this kind of information? >> well, let me reset this for everybody right now. i'm sorry. you're hearing saturday afternoon in the pentagon. you're hearing the testing of the

. >> and i'm jonathan mann joining you from cnn international. >> we're giving you a new glimpse insidenctum of osama bin laden. releasing five videos from the compound in which he has killed. one in particular has been catching people's attention. it shows a dilapidated film. watching television, remote control in hand, a wool cap on and a blanket around his shoulders, and apparently, he is looking, by way of video, at satellite television, looking at various images of himself being conveyed. >> one caller made a comment worth repeating, there are probably a lot of living rooms in pakistan that look a lot like that. that may look like a sad place, but it still does. we see him in settings much more modest than we would have expected even if they're common to people in the developing world. and the videos themselves were released in a dramatic fashion, after the raid, of course, that took bin laden's life. there was a news conference. journalists were called to washington to hear at the pentagon from an intelligence official who gave them some background and then gave them a chance to s