Retired CIA officer reflects on the intelligence that led to Osama bin Laden's killing
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ποΈ 1 May 2026
β±οΈ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Reflecting on American vengeance, after the deadliest attack on U.S. soil. |
| 0:05.0 | I want justice. |
| 0:07.0 | Retribution. |
| 0:08.0 | Justice has been done. |
| 0:10.0 | It has been 15 years since the historic raid that killed the world's most wanted terrorists. |
| 0:16.0 | Tonight, an inside look at the dangerous operation and the intelligence that led up to it from the man who at the time |
| 0:21.7 | led the CIA in Pakistan where bin Laden met his demise. That's tonight, the first in a special |
| 0:27.1 | two-part edition to Compass Points. |
| 0:44.9 | 15 years ago, I woke up in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, |
| 0:48.9 | where I'd lived for three years as the ABC News correspondent, |
| 0:52.2 | and I drove about an hour and a half to Abadabad. I drove past |
| 0:55.7 | Pakistan's Military Academy, the country's West Point, and turned into a neighborhood where one |
| 1:00.6 | house stood high above the others. This was the first footage from inside the compound where |
| 1:06.7 | Osama bin Laden had lived and died. |
| 1:13.1 | These are the walls that protected him, 15 feet high, topped with razor wire, |
| 1:16.0 | as seen in this exclusive video from inside the compound. |
| 1:19.9 | Inside, the house is big, eight rooms. |
| 1:22.9 | On the first floor, a bedroom covered in blood. |
| 1:25.8 | Look at the papers left on the floor. Up on the |
| 1:28.1 | second floor, the master bedroom, perhaps bin Laden's, with blood that's still on |
| 1:33.0 | the floor. This is the nicest room in the house, the only one with a carpet and a |
| 1:37.5 | queen-sized bed. Down the hall, a food pantry. You can't see it that well, but there's |
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