DECLASSIFIED: Ret. Adm. Bill McRaven and Michael Morell on the Raid on Osama bin Laden's Compound
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The President Says, Find Out What's Going on Inside the Abatabad Compound
Admiral McRaven: We'd had a lot of leads on bin Laden. Some were fairly tangential, but part of my responsibility was to work with the agency and those that had leads to kind of track these down. I remember at one point in time, somebody had reported that bin Laden was up in the Hindu Christian Northern Afghanistan at 14,200 feet. So sure enough, we sent a helicopter to 14,200ft to track down who we thought might be bin Laden marching through the snow. Just to say it wasn't there,. The president asked for some concepts of operation and that the military be brought into the fold.
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