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*””And don’t forget that the initial stories coming out of the media were his compound was primitive, no TV, no computers, no nothing. Then within a couple of weeks the same compound was being referred to as a “command center” for all worldwide terrorist activities, and that Bin Laden was the still the acknowledged mastermind and on-scene leader of Al Queda. All the sudden his once primitive compound contained all sorts of intelligence information that would be used for years to come to fight terrorism.”*

You are totally wrong.

By Robert Windrem and Alex Johnson
NBC News and msnbc.com
updated 5/4/2011 7:15:09 PM ET
“They didn’t use land lines or the Internet, but they did use something else, cell phones,” said the official.
Bin Laden’s voice was never heard on cell phone conversations intercepted by the NSA during surveillance prior to Sunday’s raid, the official said.

‘Thousands of documents’ also recovered
On Tuesday, U.S. officials told NBC that “thousands of documents” were recovered that could help the U.S. “destroy al-Qaida.”

NBC News reported that the documents — in both paper and electronic form on computers and portable computer drives — were recovered Sunday when a U.S. commando team raided the three-story compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and killed bin Laden, 54, the founder of the Islamist network that killed more than 3,000 people in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.

U.S. officials confirmed Tuesday that 10 hard drives, five computers and more than 100 storage devices were recovered from the compound. The specific numbers were first reported by CNN.
U.S. officials would not discuss details of what might be in the papers and on the computer drives, including whether the material was encrypted. But in an interview with NBC News’ Brian Williams, CIA Director Leon Panetta said, “The reality is that we picked up an awful lot of information there at the compound.”