Defense Department releases Video of Osama Bin Laden

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The Story:

Video footage taken from Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, shows the terrorist leader watching news coverage of himself on television.

The five U.S. government-selected clips offer the first public glimpse at bin Laden’s life behind the walls of his compound in suburban Pakistan. The videos include outtakes of his propaganda films and, taken together, portray him as someone obsessed with his own image and how he is portrayed to the world.

A senior intelligence officer described the information seized from the compound as “the single largest collection” of senior terrorist material ever, NBC News reported. The videos were seized by Navy SEALs after bin Laden was killed Monday.

“The treasure trove of information has provided some golden nuggets of information on communications within the al-Qaida group and we hope to get a better sense if that communication continues,” the senior official told NBC News. “We are already disseminating intelligence across the U.S. government based on what we’ve found.”

A task force is working around the clock to analyze all of the information from the compound, and is drawing from the expertise from at least 10 federal agencies.

“Bin Laden remained an active leader in al-Qaida, providing strategic, operational, and tactical instructions to the group,” the senior official said, adding “He was not just a strategic thinker for the group, he was active in operational planning and in driving tactical decisions inside al-Qaida.”

At this point, I am willing to concede that Osama Bin Laden is very much dead.