a number of people came up to me and congratulated me as if i had pulled him out of the hole yself.t that time, i felt my involvement with him was ver. host: what did you know about the search for him up until that point? guest: the search was -- there was a lot of pressure coming from washington at that time. it was relayed to me by the station chief at the time aying, it is not a question of if we can find him, but we have to find him. washington wants this done. osama bin laden had escaped and we cannot have another situation like that. i was working very long hours, so was my predecessor, a really knowledgeable analyst on iraq, and we worked constantly. there was nothing else to do but work. we would meet with the military and special forces personnel and go over the raids and what was developed from them. it was grueling work. piecemeal, that kind of work, it was sort of like assembling a very large jigsaw puzzle. you knew all the pieces were not going to be there. host: how long was he on the run? guest: from around the time he was toppled in march -- i'm sorry, april, 2003. t