. >> 18-a nissin road, rawalpindi. >> which is just south of islamabad in the mountains. that's a very prosperous neighborhood, the equivalent of beverly hills. >> had you been to that house? >> not to the house, but i've been to rawalpindi. >> what did they do once they captured him? >> he was taken to a series of secret prisons. was hard to document what going on in that period between 2003 and 2006 when he was transferred to guantanamo. it appears he spent time in romania and bangkok and c.i.a. secret facility out of warsaw, poland. >> why would they have moved him around that much? >> you're a guest of another country's intelligence service and you can only have someone as a guest for so long. also, sometimes changing people's environments kept them moving. >> how old is he today? >> he was born in 1954. i'm a writer, not a mathematician, 47 years old. >> how old would that have made him when a planned 9/11 tax that would be 37 or earlier. >> in fact, part of the inspiration for 9/11 comes from his view of the science-fiction movie "independence day." and they take up

those women are presently being held in rawalpindi. that's just outside of islamabad. a pakistani military official tells us the u.s. must wait until pakistan has completed its own interrogations first. among the wives, bin laden's youngest, the 29-year-old amal, is said to be his favorite. she's strongly committed to his ideology. she's also still recovering after being shot by navy s.e.a.l.s during last week's raid. and this evening users on top al qaeda websites are threatening "serious consequences" if the pakistani government gives the u.s. access to the widows or if the u.s. tries to bring the women back to the united states. nbc news has also learned that the u.s. has already shared threat information from materials seized in the compound with several other countries. brian? >> all right. peter alexander, our coverage from islamabad tonight. peter, thanks. >>> now to the other front overseas. libya, which is back in the news tonight. the fiercest nato air strikes in several weeks bombarded tripoli today, pounding away at targets in the city of misrata, where the

we have seen some protests around the country today, a small one here in abbottabad but also in rawalpindi. people are saying they're angry that their sovereignty has been violated and calling the government here just a puppet of the united states. savannah? >> stephanie gosk outside the compound in abbottabad, pakistan, this morning. thank you. >>> back here, the slow-motion disaster unfolding in the deep south. thousands are being forced to seek higher ground. flooding along the mississippi river is threatening records that have stood for nearly 75 years. photos show the big money, the ohio, and their tributaries pouring over their banks in five states. nbc's ron mott is in memphis, tennessee, today, where the water has reached the downtown area. ron, tell us what you're seeing there. >> hey, there, savannah. good morning. take a look at the headline of the "memphis commercial appeal." field of streams. a beautiful photo of all this water flowing through and above and beyond the mississippi river's bans. pretty pictures here but messy pictures on the ground. beale street, which dumps out

khalid shaikh mohammed, ksm was found in a similar town in rawalpindi a few years ago. how can this happen without the tacit knowledge or involvement? >> let me proffer another explanation. >> answer the question. >> it's a state, a country with lots of people, it's a very difficult country in the sense of its capacity to deal with the problems. as the national security adviser said, a lot more people have been arrested in pakistan including al qaeda people than in any other country. so pakistan did not have a policy of protecting these people. however, the united states spent much more money in iraq than it did in afghanistan, and then it spent much more money in afghanistan than it did in pakistan. so were there cracks through which things fell through? absolutely and we'll investigate that and get to the bottom of it. >> all right. you've said it is time for pakistan to wake up. is there going to be a credible investigation that leads to some heads rolling? national security adviser said that the chief of the military, general kiani was holding an investigation. tell