osama bin laden innerc innercircle. and and his security around this. this. so so penetrating his innerc innercircle is more than just just being able to say that osama b osama bin laden is big. it it goes to every al qaeda leader leader out there, that the u.s. u.s. can reach out and touch you. you. and and that is significant in and o and of itself. and i and i was just speaking to someon someone who was at the highest highest levels of the u.s. govern government, part of this search search for osama bin laden for for many, many years. and and he was making the point that th that they have never stopped lookin looking for him. that t that the u.s. has never been a a time since 9/11 where the u.s. u.s. said oirx, okay, we don't don't care about aline laden. laden. we are we are not going to look for him an him any more f he pops up that that is great. that is that is the no the case. this this has been an effort that has has involved hundreds and hundre hundreds and hundreds of peopl people for years and years. who who never stopped looking for hi for him. instea instead we pounded and pounde pounded and pounded and never never gave up. and y and you know, h

cbs cbs news has confirmed that osama b osama bin laden has been kille killed. in u.s. hands. david, david, kind of give us, we talked talked about the time line a second second ago and how big a deal deal this is. is the is there any indication that there there were efforts stepped up in t up in the past several months months to capture bin laden? >> >> they have been stepping up up efforts to capture bin laden. laden. but we but we don't know why. was th was that because they were finall finally getting some good intell telligence on his wherea whereabouts or was it just out out of frustration and they wanted wanted to make one more big push push to try and locate him. but but whatever the chain of events events, this seems to have yield yielded his location. >> mit >> mitchell: again, special program program tonight, osama bin laden laden, cbs news has confir confirmed has been killed. his his body is in u.s. hands. we we are awaiting a statement from p from president obama from the ea the east room of the white house. house. our our chip reid is at the white

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osama bin laden from the oncoming fire. >> reporter: navy seal forced shot osama bin laden to the head. >> all of a sudden you had to go into plan b and they did it flawlessly. >> reporter: no contact was pakistani officials. osama bin laden was quickly buried at sea but he was identified by one of his wives, dna and facial recognition technology. >>> news of bin been's death spawned celebrations across america. crowds gathered in front of the white house and at annapolis. >> when i think about a decade of watching my kids grow up. it's been phenomenal to be here to witness it. it's a history changing moment. everybody is going to remember for sure. >>> the remaining detainees were turned over to pakistani officials. the united states is trying to determine what if anything pakistan may have known about osama bin laden's compound. >>> the president will visit the world trade center site on thursday and meet with victim's families. >>> and security leaders are calling it a treasure-trove of information on al-qaida. there are concerns of retaliatory attacks. that's why maryland officials say america must remain vigilant. >> reporter

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cbs cbs news confirmed that osama b osama bin laden has been kille killed. the unit the united states does have his his body. the the president was expected to to speak about an hour ago now, w now, waiting for him to come out out hopefu hopefully coming out very shortl shortly. now now back to the white house and and chief white house corres correspondent chip reid. when y when you got that call tonigh tonight, late sunday night, come b come back to the white house t will t will be a big deal. we we we were all not told exactly what w what we were going to hear tonight tonight. what d what did you think right off the bad? the bad? >> wel >> well, we already knew that that the rumor was that osama osama bin laden had been killed killed. we di we didn't know that for sure. sure. we we were still harboring suspic suspicions that it might have so have something to do with moamma moammar qaddafi and perhaps someth something that happened in libya libya. but but when i got here the level level of activity suggested that that it was a good deal more than than a qa