Thursday, May 5, 2011

Bin Laden Escape Plan: 500 Euros and Two Cell Phones

In the two days after al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s death, a wealth of information has emerged about the last several hours of his life.

Information that was acquired by the team of Navy SEALs was sent to an FBI lab on Wednesday, coinciding with their return back to the U.S. Bin Laden looked poised to run at a moment’s notice as he had around 500 euros and two phones stitched into his clothing, people close to the intelligence matter told ABC News.

Also seized from the compound near Islamabad were around 100 digital media items, disks, DVDs, pen drives, and other things, the report said. They were transported to an FBI facility for examination.

"There's a lot we have to go through, some encryption, some coding. It's in another language. It's in Arabic, so there's a lot to go through before we really find out what we have, but remember small pieces of information can be critically important," Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican who heads the House Intelligence Committee.

On Tuesday it was announced that SEALs shot bin Laden even though he was not armed with a firearm. Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday defended the move.
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