is trying to make in this region is. >> nick schifrin here with us in new york. nick, safe trip back. >>> we're going to move now to the army private accused of leaking a mountain of military secrets, wikileaks then publishing the documents. and since bradley manning's arrest, his father has struggled to understand why his son may have done this. that father is now speaking out for the first time and to our dan harris. >> reporter: what is it like to be the father of a young man accused of betraying america? many americans have seen your son's picture but i don't think we know much about him as a person. can you just describe him for me? >> he was always very energetic. he was just very normal kid. >> reporter: what was your reaction when you heard he had been arrested? >> i was shocked. >> reporter: in a new pbs "frontline" documentary, bradley manning's father, brian, speaks for the first time. he also agreed to talk to us, saying, he still has not had a chance to ask his son directly if he did it. when you're able to say to your son, is it true, did you do it,

nick schifrin is there. nick. >> reporter: terry, i think for years we've been talking about which cave bin laden was hiding in. as one u.s. official has put it today, bin laden was hiding in plain sight. you can see this town where he was hiding. this is a middle class neighborhood. this is the road that leads to his compound. people on this road live relatively well. this is a middle class neighborhood. it's also a tourist neighborhood. where people from all over pakistan would come to enjoy the beauty here. most importantly perhaps, this is a military neighborhood. a few thousand feet from me is the bin laden compound. and about 500 or 600 feet away from that is a pakistani army base. actually something that is basically pakistan's west point. pakistani military academy. there's a lot of questions today about how close bin laden's compound was to that army base. why they didn't know, as they say, why bin laden was living there. >> bin laden's last hometown. what has been the reaction there on the ground t

here's nick schifrin. >> reporter: for years, osama bin laden was presumed to be hiding in a cave. but turns out, he was living in plain sight, in the middle class city just 90 miles from pakistan's capital. he and his family had the biggest house in the area, surrounded by massive 12 to 18-foot high walls, topped with barbed wire. you really get a sense of how imposing this boundary wall is, which is much higher than any of the walls around it. these people around this neighborhood said, when the children in this neighborhood were playing with balls and one of the balls went over one of these walls, it was never returned. it was a clear attempt for by everybody inside to keep everybody else out. outside those walls today, the compound became a tourist attraction. hundreds of kids came out. some found remnants of the u.s. helicopter that was left behind during the raid and scuttled. the locals came hoping for a look at the man's life. "if bin laden was living here," this man tells me, "he never went out." we got the glimpse that are by hoping for, in this exclusive video from insid

our nick schifrin, as you know, brought the world the first foe tomes inside the bin laden compound. and, he has managed to track down a friend of the men who were bin laden's links to the world outside those walls. and he reports tonight from abbottabad. >> reporter: it is the world's most infamous hideout. we got a glimpse into the private lives today thanks to this man, a friend of osama bin laden's infamous couriers. he spoke to us with us blurring his face. "they interacted with very few people," he says. "those inside stayed to themselves, rarely venturing out. not attending weddings or funerals. bin laden never left. " adults, whether friends or strangers, weren't allowed to enter the walls. "they never even responded," he says, "if someone knocked on their door." only neighborhood children were welcomed. those that came to play with bin laden and the courier's kids. one child came for a visit and was given ran builts as a gift. life in the hideout was simple. they owned two vehicles, both cheap suzukis. the couriers shopped at the mom and pop stores where shelves are filled w

our full team is once again covering every part of this story, and we begin tonight with nick schifrin in pakistan. he was the first to obtain the video inside the compound and tonight tells us what he has now learned by going frame by frame. >> reporter: when you take a very close look at the video, it offers tantalizing hints about how the world's most wanted man lived. look at this medicine shelf -- most likely in bin laden's own room. we froze it and enhanced it. that's petroleum jelly on the left. eye drops right next to it. this one -- antiseptic cream for cuts. and the blue box? we couldn't read the writing, so we went to a local pharmacist. and showed him the image. do you have one of these? >> yes, we do. >> reporter: he pulled out the exact same blue box. what is this? >> nasal spray. >> reporter: nasal spray? >> yeah. >> reporter: it is only a quick glimpse of one part of the house, but no serious medicines, despite years of rumors about bill laden's poor health. outside the house, we found evidence of what the bin laden's ate. two cans of imported olive oil, two cans of loc

our nick schifrin tonight has more. an exclusive look inside the complex where bin laden lived and died. >> reporter: it is a sprawling eight-room house, slightly dingy, even before it was ransacked in the raid. on the first floor, a bedroom where multiple people were killed. papers left on the floor. in the corner, a small bed, likely for a mother. her baby's bed next to it. across the hall, piles of blankets, clothes, and desk top computers. u.s. troops took their hard drives. up on the second floor, the master bedroom. perhaps bin laden's. the only room with a queen-sized bed and carpet. also, a large amount of blood on the floor. there was a closet with children's clothes. and medicine still on the shelves. although it's too hard to read the labels. no sign of a kidney dialysis machine. as you walk outside, more evidence of children. toys. a discarded red wagon. and walls at least 12 feet high topped with razor wire. beyond those walls is a quiet, well-off town. this road leads to two things it the compound where bi

nick schifrin, abc news islamabad. >>> our thanks to nick. let's turn to christiane amanpour who is in washington tonight preparing for tomorrow morning's program. christiane, we knew this would cause headlines, the discovery of pornography, when you hear the most educated suggesting it was stashed and planted, what does this say about the larger issue, the relationship between the two countries right now? >> we know it's as bad as it's ever been but also it's beset by conspiracy theories, to that point, key opinion makers are starting to take issue with that. a key anchor says it's time to stop buying into conspiracy theories. those who have been killed in pakistan recently, people who have been killed by terrorist plots abroad have had pakistanis as perpetrators. so he said it's time for pakistan to quit looking at conspiracy theories and to recognize that pakistan is an epicenter of terror. >> that anchor taking heat for taking a stand on that. what does the white house do next about mending that relationship? >> senior pakistani official

and we asked our nick schifrin to take a snapshot of what it is like at that scene. >> reporter: the reason this attack was so deadly was this, this is a ball bearing, and these were packed into these bombs and when they exploded, they ripped through these vans where the recruits had gathered this morning, about to go home. this area has seen so much violence, kidnappings, and killings, and when i come here, i have to wear local clothes in order to blend in and not make myself such a target. >> and that was our nick schifrin. it is a dangerous place there. and he was there on a deadly day of retribution. >>> now, back to the united states, and the flooding mississippi here at home. we began this week in memphis, in the flood waters, where tonight, the water is inching down, despite the rain that fell today. down river, it is now official, as we said last night. 2,500 louisiana residents have been told to pack up their homes and leave their land, to be sacrificed to deliberate flooding to save the big cities down river. >>> and, tonight, another kind, a different kind of high water ma

. >> our nick schifrin takes a look at what else was found inside. >> reporter: when you take a veryok at the video, it offers tantalizing hints about how the world's most-wanted man lived. look at this medicine shelf. most likely in bin laden's own room. we froze it and enhanced it. that's petroleum jelly on the left. eye drops right next to it. this one, an antiseptic cream for cuts. it is only a quick glimpse of one part of the house. but there appeared to be no serious medicines, despite years of rumors of bin laden's poor health. outside the house, we found evidence of what the bin ladens ate. two cans of imported olive oil. two cans of local sunflower oil. and in the pantry, it's hard to see but brightening the video reveals enough food to sustain a family for weeks, including dozens of eggs. bin laden never had to leave, always protected by 15-foot-high walls. outside those walls, the compound became a tourist attraction. hundreds of kids came out. some found remnants of the u.s. helicopter that was left behind and scuttled. with these fields to my left, you really get a sense

nick schifrin is joining us this morning from islamabad with reaction from there this morning. nick? >> reporter: good morning, rob. good morning, peggy. the reaction here has been muted so far. it's only about 10:00 and while that raid happened about eight hours ago, people are just soaking it up. but what we have seen is the u.s. state department put out a worldwide caution for americans traveling abroad and for their embassies abroad. and we've seen very specifically the pakistani police go to the u.s. embassy in islamabad, just a couple of miles from me, and protect that embassy. the fear is that the people in pakistan will retaliate, militants specifically in pakistan could retaliate. and as a sign of that, pakistani intelligence officials who do say that they were involved in this operation are very clear to distance themselves, not to own this operation. neither intelligence officials or government officials, because they fear that that backlash could come if they were seen as providing the intelligence or even the backup for this operation. >> and our question obviously

we're going to go to nick schifrin in pakistan.from inside the compound. nick has more on that, nick? >> reporter: robin, that compound is about 1,000 feet behind me down that alley. it's a big compound the five or six time bigger than anything around it. walls that are 12 to 16 feet tall. barbed wire on top of that. the first room on the left, covered in blood. multiple people died or were wounded there. there are computers whose hard drive have been taken away. blood up the stairs. some kind of fight. on the second floor, another room that is ransacked. more computers are hard drives taken away. throughout the house, small details, like nuts in jars. arabic books on the shelves. medicines on the shelves. right behind me, about 1,000 feet from the house, the pack tanny military academy. that's the equivalent of west point. there are a lot of questions about that being so close to the house where bin laden was killed. >> chilling details. we're here live at ground zero. the work continues here at ground zero. we'll tonight to repor

nick schifrin has the latest from islamabad, pakistan. good morning, nick. >> reporter: good morning, bianna. late last night, pakistan's powerful spy chief lashed out at the u.s. in parliament. saying we have to decide whether to stand up to america now. or have subsequent revelations to deride us. but the intelligence chief was also heavily criticized because he said he had no idea that the world's most-wanted man was living in a house just two hours from here. inside that house, navy s.e.a.l.s grabbed a treasure trove of information about al qaeda and its plots. u.s. officials say they also found a shocking stash in bin laden's own bedroom. pornographic videos and magazines. >> it's just surprising that pornography was found because he was known to be a rather austere man. a rather religious man. a man who, in fact, gave up the world. >> reporter: u.s. officials say they were hesitant to reveal that information for fear it wouldn't be believed. which is exactly what we found in pakistan today, even among the most educated. the u.s. is

we want to go straight to the nick schifrin, at abbottabad. you spoke with him moments ago, nick. >> reporter: i just had an interview with the courier, who led the cia to the compound, about half a mile behind me. he revealed a lot of details about life inside that compound, including the fact that nobody could walk through those front doors unless they were children. today, we learned more details about what went on behind these three-feet-thick, 16-foot-high walls. a local shopkeeper said the bin ladens apparently liked coke and pepsi. they had it delivered in bulk. one 12-year-old visited the compound and received rabbits as gifts. and a woman delivered polio vaccine. when she started asking questions, guards told her to leave. she enhanced the video of what was supposedly bin laden's bedroom. that's petroleum jelly on the left. eye drops next to it. and the blue box? we couldn't read the writing. we went to a pharmacy and showed him the image. do you have one of these? >> yes. >> reporter: he pulled out the exact same blue box. nasal spra

troops were told from our reporter on the ground there in pakistan, nick schifrin, that it was a joint u.s./pakistan operation. we'll hear more about that in the days to come. but we're told it was an on the ground operation in this one mansion, this one compound, and it was a successful mission. no civilians were killed. no u.s. troops were killed. and the u.s. has bin laden's body. jubilation inside the white house, outside the white house, tourists and others gathered outside, singing usa, sincing nah, nah, good-bye to bin laden. 9/11 was bin laden's deadliest attack but other attacks linked to al qaeda including the 1998 bombings of the u.s. embassies in tanzania and kenya, where more than 20 0 individuals were killed. of course the bombing of the "uss cole" where 17 service members were killed in 2000. those families have got to be experiencing the same thing that the families of the victims of 9/11 are feeling, which is a great sense of closure, a great sense of relief and a real happiness that the u.s. has not taken its eye off the ball throughout the bush administration and con

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our nick schifrin has spoken to people closest to the al qaeda leader and the family. he reports now from abbottabad. >> reporter: we're beginning to learn details of what life was like inside this compound, thanks to an interview we've had with a confidant of two of the people who ran the compound. one of the people was the couriers that the u.s. managed to track to get to bin laden. inside the compound, the families who lived there were extremely private. they didn't participate in neighborhood events. they wouldn't go to funerals or weds. occasionally, they would go to the market. there were three or four women inside. they would leave the compound completely covered. only their eyes would be showing. and those two men who ran this compound were privates themselves. when they were asked what jobs they did, they refused to answer. and when they were asked why they ran a compound with walls so high, so much higher than any other compound around it, they said they were tribesmen from the afghan/pakistan border, and they didn't want to let enemies see inside. >>> coming

nick schifrin, abc news, abbottabad, pakistan. >>> and back in the u.s.doff victims. the trustee in charge of storing investor's money says he's now ready to make the first payout. $272 million bucks. irving beckards he's recovered about half of the $17 billion that madoff stole from his clients. if a bankruptcy judge approves the plan some 1,200 investors will get an average of $222,000 each. >> that's good news. >>> now to a story that will affect a lot of us. apple made good on its promise and has released a software patch to protect user's privacy. the company found itself in hot water after users found that the devices stored information on their location for up to one year. well with this patch the data will be purged after about a week. the update is available through the itunes store. anytime also when the phone is synced up. >>> the shuttle "endeavour" may be facing another launch delay. nasa says the switch box removed from the spaceship has a blown circuit and that the fix-it work is taking a little bit longer than expected. "endeavour" was sup

nick schifrin, abc news, abbottabad, pakistan. >> an amazing look inside.ghbors say the two pakistanis who helped hide bin laden kept that compound with coke and pepsi. a shopkeeper says always bought enough food for ten people and suspicious of all of those large orders he says he was simply too polite to ask why. >>> also learned new details about the operation that took bin laden down. it was called "operation neptune spear" and the mission was very clear, to capture or kill the al qaeda leader. as the navy s.e.a.l. team landed gunfire quickly erupted and continued throughout the operation. we now know that bin laden's wife was not armed. she was actually shot in the leg. last night vice president biden spoke about it all for the first time. >> we know brave professionals who trapped and killed osama bin laden. it was just a -- it was actually breathtaking. it was a staggering undertaking. and there are no one else i believe other than an american gro group, military wars who are rin do it. and the world is safer snydone of the lasting images of the enti

>> our nick schifrin in pakistan. >>> meanwhile, israel's military is on alert. a day after thousands of palestinians tried to storm the boarders with gaza, lebanon and syria all to protest the date that israel was founded. 16 people were killed in the clashes. >>> and some dramatic moments for 136 passengers flying to indonesia. the engine of their cathay pacific jet caught fire. midflight, making an emergency landing in singapore. where crews quickly doused the flames. passengers heard two loud bangs before the lights went out. many reportedly got together, prayed aloud, something worked. because no one was hurt. >>> meanwhile, the family of late hockey star derek boogaard says they will donate his brain to research. friends and fans attended the memorial in minneapolis last night. he was found dead friday. there is speculation that brain trauma may have been the cause. he missed most of the hockey season with a concussion. >>> have row seen the video of the guy being called the worst bus driver in the world? take a look. guy in rome, italy, steering with his o

. >> our nick schifrin got an exclusive look inside that compound that housed the al qaeda leader rightthe nose of the pakistani military. he joins us now from abbottabad. >> reporter: good morning. the one top counterterrorism official, saying there was no way that the pakistanis weren't sheltering bin laden. the pakistani military denies that. and the pakistani president writes, he was not anywhere we anticipate he would be. but now, he is gone. it is an eight-room house, slightly dingy even before it was ransacked in the raid. in the first floor, a bedroom, where multiple people were killed. papers left on the floor. in the corner a small bed, likely for a mother. her baby's bed, next to it. across the hall piles of blankets clothes and desktop computers. u.s. troops took their hard drives. on the second floor, the master bedroom. perhaps bin laden's. the only room with a queen-sized bed and carpet. also, a large amount of blood on the floor. there's a closet with children's clothes. and medicine still on the shelves. although, it's too hard to read the labels. no sign of a kidney di

nick schifrin is joining us this morning from abbottabad. nick. >> reporter: good morning, rob.ing, peggy. over the last day and a half or so the pakistani government has come under withering criticism from the white house. one top counterterrorism official suggesting that there was no way that the pakistanis weren't sheltering bin laden. the pakistani government, the pakistani military denies that and president zardari denies it in a "washington post" op-ed today writing, he was not anywhere, we anticipated he would be, but now he is gone. it is a sprawling eight-room house, slightly dingy, even before it was ransacked in the raid. on the first floor, a bedroom where multiple people were killed, papers left on the floor. in the corner a small bed likely for a mother, her baby's bed next to it. across the hall, piles of blankets, clothes, and desktop computers. u.s. troops took their hard drives. up on the second floor, the master bedroom. perhaps bin laden's. the only room with a queen-size bed and carpet. also a large amount of blood on the floor. there's a closet with childre

nick schifrin is back there again with the latest. good morning, nick. >> reporter: good morning, robin. today, pakistan is considering blowing up the compound behind me, what has become one of the world's most notorious hideouts. pakistan is worried that this compound could become a shrine, and has no intention of letting that happen. today, the government here dramatically increased its criticism of the u.s., mocking claims that it alone was responsible for not capturing bin laden. >> nonetheless, can you think of a nato member bombing another nato country? i'm not saying whether it was legal or illegal. it is for the historians to judge. >> reporter: this compound is no cave. security here, relatively high. the razor wire was electrified. the house had multiple cameras. there was a satellite dish, which possibly could mean bin laden could watch tv. the people inside the compound lived modestly. the local minimal baker, the bodega next door, and the chicken guy next to that. almost every room had been ransacked. but there were only

nick schifrin and his team secured that footage. he joins us from abbottabad. and you have a piece of the helicopter that went down? >> reporter: we have a piece of the blackhawk helicopter, george. and the compound has become a bit of a tourist attraction. there's hundreds of people around me. a few dozen journalists. mostly local people. despite the fact that the compound is so much larger, so much more secure than anything else around it -- still has no idea, that inside was osama bin laden. these are the walls that protected him. 15 feet high, topped with razor wire, as seen in this exclusive video, from inside the compound. inside, the house is big. eight rooms. but it seems shabby, even before it was raided. on the first floor, a bedroom covered in blood. that simple bed in the corner is likely a mother's. a baby's across from it. in the hall, clothes and blankets. up on the second floor, the master bedroom, perhaps bin laden's. with blood still on the floor. this is the nicest room in the house. the only one with a carpet and a queen sized bed. there's c

nick schifrin has been tracking all of this down in abbottabad, pakistan. and he joins us now. good morning, nick. >> reporter: elizabeth, that's right. new details about an extraordinary spy mission in the months before this raid. it turns out osama bin laden had secret neighbors, the cia. the cia moved every asset it had into a house right near bin laden's compound. those assets included a satellite, hovering above. telephoto lenses on cameras that shot bin laden's compound through mirrored glass. infrared devices and audio recording devices. those details according to "the new york times" and "washington post." newspapers say the effort took more than $10 million. in the end, it actually failed. the cia never got a positive identification of bin laden. they saw someone in the compound they nicknamed tracer or pacer, rather. they never identified him. nor were they able to actually get his voice, record his voice. that goes to show you how well hidden he was in this compound. and also, how well-disciplined he was. the fact is, he never left the compound and risked any kind of