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(Ground Zero: Anderson Cooper) Report introduced.
(Washington: Jeanne Meserve) The Al Qaeda "aspirational" plan to derail trains in the US to coincide with the 10 year anniversary of 9/11 and hitting specific cities on specific dates reviewed.
(Ground Zero: Anderson Cooper) Live discussion held with CNN contributor Fran Townsend and CNN's Peter Bergen about the railroad plans and that the CIA was surveilling the compound in Pakistan. [TOWNSEND - says we will hear more of these kinds of ideas and plans from Al Qaeda; explains how the CIA was in Abbottabad.] [BERGEN - comments on the Al Qaeda interest in railroads and how they want to attack iconic city targets; states there is not evidence Pakistan knew bin Laden was there.]
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(Ground Zero: Anderson Cooper) What we know about the raid on bin Laden's house reviewed; scenes and diagrams of Operation Neptune Spear shown; details given about who was killed, a false door, the bomb-sniffing dog, the shooting of bin Laden, how three wives were there, including the young Yemeni wife, what they received inside, the absence of medical equipment. [On Tuesday, White House press secretary Jay CARNEY†- outlines the operation.] [Senator Dianne FEINSTEIN - says there were arms in the room.] [Pakistani foreign minister Salman BASHIR†- denies Pakistan gave cover to bin Laden.]
(Ground Zero: Anderson Cooper, Ed Henry, John King) The changing version of the narrative of events as presented by President Obama on Sunday, why there is no reasons to back away from what happened, questions about the "robust" account, Obama's visit to Ground Zero where he connected with the firefighters, Obama's visit tomorrow to Ft. Campbell to meet the Navy SEALs discussed; picture shown of a late firefighter's son, Chris Cannizzaro, who got to meet the president and of Obama in the city.
(Ground Zero: Anderson Cooper) The famed photo of President Obama and his team in the situation room watching the Navy SEALs taking down bin Laden noted; picture shown. [Secretary of State Hillary CLINTON - calls them intense minutes.]
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(Ground Zero: Anderson Cooper; Abbottabad: Nic Robertson) What one of bin Laden's wives has been telling Pakistani authorities about life in the compound where they lived for at least five years, the unlikelihood the US will get to the women being interrogated by the Pakistani ISI and the story on the CIA safe house discussed.
(Ground Zero: Anderson Cooper, Fareed Zakaria) What the Pakistani army is saying about cooperating with the US, how the military is dependent on US money, how Pakistan cannot turn its back on the US relations, whether Pakistan may/may not have known about the raid, the difficulties of the US-Pakistani relationship, the question of whether Pakistan wants to become a modern society, how the killing of bin Laden changes the war in Afghanistan and how this vindicates the US counter-terrorism strategy discussed.
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(No location given: Anderson Cooper) Earlier discussion held with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about the bin Laden operation. [RICE - outlines her reaction to finding out bin Laden had been killed; comments on putting things together during her days in the White House, on talking with former President Bush about the story of the courier, the importance of information gained via interrogation from Al Qaeda figures; offers views on the administration's decision not to release the photos that could incite; states she knew we would get bin Laden.]
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