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- I want justice.

There's an old poster out west, as I recall,

that said wanted, dead or alive.

- Osama Bin Laden and 9/11 changed the world forever.

- Born into privilege,

the charismatic Islamic extremist will die

as the 21st centuries face of Evil.

- He became a religious fascist,

you either agree with me or you don't

and I'm gonna kill you if you don't.

- This is the story of a man

who's anti-western rhetoric turned him into an idol

and motivator to militant muslims around the world.

- He believed he was a kind of Islamic messiah

that could take the struggle to other countries.

- But in the end, even his deep pockets

and sinister creativity aren't enough

to keep him as the leading voice of global Jihad.

- 10 years,

that's how long the US has been hunting the man

responsible for the worst terrorist attack

in it's history.

And now, as a security satellite watches a tall man

pacing around an enclosed garden,

the CIA think, they have him in their sights.

So on May the 1st, 2011, in the predawn hours

of the morning, two fully loaded

stealth black hawk helicopters approach the garden compound

on a mission directly approved by the President.

A team of elite US Navy Seals blast their way in.

The long arm of American justice has come

for the worlds most wanted terrorist, Osama Bin Laden.

In 1957, Osama Bin Laden is born to one

of the richest families in Saudi Arabia,

the birthplace of Islam.

- Extremely wealthy family, considered pretty much up

in the upper social echelon's of Saudi Arabia.

- Osama means lion, in Arabic.

And he's the 17th of 54 children

from his father Mohammed's 22 wives.

Mohammed Bin Laden is a self made billionaire

earning his fortune in the construction business.

- He built a lot of the Saudi Palaces,

he built the roads, there are airports.

He became the most powerful, most influential non royal

in Saudi Arabia and they remain that today.

The Bin Laden company is sort of the Bechtel

of the Middle East.

They call them the contractor to the king.

- Throughout his childhood,

Osama involves himself in his father's work.

And receives training in explosives to blast out mountains

for road ways.

Knowledge he will one day put to use

with devastating effect.

He also gets something else from his father,

his faith, which will dominate every aspect

of his life.

- Osama Bin Laden's father was a very very devout Muslim.

- What he did was instill a very pious attitude,

you know, that you read the Quran, you become very familiar

with the Prophet and that the model of the Prophet

is the way to model your own life.

- He venerated the Prophet, Muhammed,

and also the global, borderless side of Islam,

in terms of eventually Islamic faith

being the faith of the entire world.

- Critically, Bin Laden learns

how the Prophet, Muhammed, wasn't just a religious figure,

but also a great general,

who believed in spreading Islam through warfare.

But at this stage he's like any other young man growing up,

according to his mother.

- He played football

went to picnics, rode horses and socialized.

He never caused me to worry about him in his teenage years.

- He was described as a very intelligent,

very generous, very kind, by all accounts

is very well liked by all the people that knew him

in Saudi Arabia as he was growing up.

I think most who met him remarked on his soft spoken-ness

and his gentility in terms of dealing with other people.

- In 1968, tragedy strikes the 10 year old,

when his father dies in a plane crash.

But Bin Laden inherits between 30 and 80 million dollars

which is held in trust until he's 21.

- He inherited a large sum of money from his father,

but his faith continued to kind of regulate

and control his life.

- This fortune will enable Bin Laden

to become one of the largest financial sponsors

of Islamic extremist activities in the world.

In 1978 at the age of 20,

he enrolls as a student

and the King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah.

He studies very western subjects,

economics, business administration, management,

and his father's trade, civil engineering.

But then events abroad, start affecting him deeply.

- Bin Laden's university days came at a time

when the Muslim world had been shocked by the defeat

by the Israeli's in the 67's war.

Bin Laden termed his generation, the generation of defeat.

And so that was a time of looking for answers.

How will we Muslims be able to stand up for themselves?

- This is when he comes across the works

of the radical Palestinian professor, Abdullah Azzam.

- Azzam was a very very chief member

of the Islamic Muslim brotherhood,

and Azzam essentially became Bin Laden's mentor.

- A refugee from the Palestinian struggle

against Israel, Azzam believes religion and politics

are completely intertwined.

- Azzam was almost fanatical in his desire

to see the elimination of the state of Israel

through violent Jihad.

- To Azzam, most Palestinian's are Muslims,

and an attack on one Muslim,

is an attack on all.

His motto is brutally uncompromising:

the rifle alone, no negotiations, no conferences,

and no dialogue.

- Bin Laden very much took that to heart

and used it as the core of his appeal to the Muslim world.

- Implacable violent Jihad or holy war,

will ultimately become the defining force

in Bin Laden's version of Islam.

Though at this stage he's just a young man with ideas.

He has no cause.

That is until another event abroad

turns him from idealistic student

into a warrior and terrorist.

Soviet tanks roll into Afghanistan on Christmas Eve, 1979.

- The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, 1979, is seminal,

because it's the first time that a Western power,

Soviet Union, invade Muslim country

and tries to overcome Islam.

- Bin Laden is particularly struck

by how the Afghan people fight back.

Especially the Mujihideen, the Islamic holy warriors.

- The Mijuhideen are inspirational, then you have a group

who in fact, represent Islam and will fight the infidel

and will fight for the future of Islam.

- The words of his mentor Abdullah Azzam

suddenly become real, an attack on Muslims

is an attack on Islam.

He has to go there.

The 23 year old Osama Bin Laden arrives

in Peshawar, Pakistan, just 30 miles from the Afghan border.

- Peshawar, which was more or less the headquarters

of Jihad in northern Afghanistan

was really a milieu of what we would call today

radical, Islamist's from around the world.

- He sees a city teeming with Mujihideen,

drawn from many different countries to fight the holy war

against the Russians.

And he quickly realizes that he has little to offer

as a fighter, he has no military training

or battle experience,

but he does have one thing,

money.

- Bin Laden started out financing the operation,

providing money and weapons and equipment

to the Afghan fighters, the Mujihideen.

- He doesn't just use his own money to fund

the Afghan resistance,

he lobbies wealthy Saudi's back home.

- Bin Laden was treated by the Saudi government

as sort of the poster boy for the success

of their educational system and their religious system.

'cause here's this Billionaire's son

who could have lived in Monaco or in Switzerland

and here he is in Afghanistan.

- As a fundraiser, he's brilliant.

Bringing in 50 million dollars a year

for his Muslim brothers.

But by 1984 he realizes that the Afghan resistance

needs more than money,

it needs organization.

With thousands of Arab fighters from Egypt,

Syria and Jordan flooding into the city

to support the Mujihideen, there's chaos.

So Bin Laden steps in to establish order.

- Osama Bin Laden set up the services bureau

in 1984,

it assisted foreign fighters coming into Afghanistan

making sure they were housed and fed and taken

to training camps or to Afghanistan.

- [Narrator] using his business school discipline,

Bin Laden professionalizes the process.

He tracks every recruits movements,

monitors and assesses their progress through training camps

and their successes in battle.

He personally finances this operation

to the tune of 300,000 dollars a year.

He also uses the family's construction company

to funnel in new recruits,

build tunnels and mountain hideaways

to protect them from Soviet bombs.

- Bin Laden said, we're really vulnerable to is

Soviet and Afghan government air power.

And we really need positions where we can protect

our soldiers, protect our supplies,

care for our wounded in protected areas.

And Bin Laden brought in construction equipment,

tunnel digging equipment, dump trucks,

bull dozers, from his parents company,

he earned a reputation as the young man who rode

the bulldozer in the midst of bullets.

It was not exactly that he was a fighter,

but he was a combat engineer and apparently

a very good one.

- Yet for all his skills as an organizer

and logistics man, it's not enough.

He yearns to be a holy warrior, and kill

the enemies of Islam himself.

These first steps are only the beginning

to the unimaginable cruelty and terrorist operations

he'll spear head all over the world.

In the summer of 1986, he's finally allowed

to become a warrior in the center of the action.

- When it became time to get his hands dirty

he was one of the first people on the front lines.

This is something that really ingratiated Osama Bin Laden

to his peers and helped to develop his legend.

- He find war intoxicating,

at last he's battling for his faith

against a god-less enemy.

Something terrifying is unleashed in the once shy

and gentle young man.

- Bin Laden fought in particular, horrific battle

were the Mujihideen was almost defeated.

- In one encounter, as part of a patrol

of just 50 Arabs, he fights off an assault

from a far superior trained, and equipped Soviet Force.

- It was a very brutal battle, you're talking tank warfare,

artillery, helicopter, gunships,

Osama was by all accounts a ferocious warrior.

- A senior Afghan commander at the time said,

I watched him with is Kalashnikoff in his hand

under fire from mortars,

and the multi-barreled rocket launchers.

At this stage, Bin Laden is cutting an heroic figure

on the battlefield.

- Before he arrived his fighters would get

to slowly go silent almost as if they sensed his arrival.

So there's a huge mystique built up, very quickly

around this man.

- His Mystique, grows

thanks to how he lives his life,

the son of extreme privilege asks no special favors,

and it all adds to his charisma.

- He was very respected by the people he fought alongside

because for the scion of a billionaire,

he slept with them and he ate the food he ate.

The afghans became very devoted to him

and very loyal to him because of his actions

in support of their cause.

- By now it isn't just Afghans who revere him.

Arab journalists based in Peshawar publish reports

of his battlefield heroics throughout the Middle East.

This gives Bin Laden a reputation and status

in the militant Muslim world, he's never experienced before.

And a confidence to take his Jihad to a whole new level.

In 1986 Osama Bin Laden is introduced

to Doctor Eamon Al Aza-wa-hiry, a respected surgeon

and leader of a militant Egyptian fundamentalist group.

It's a relationship that marks a shift in Bin Laden's focus

from holy warrior to international terrorist.

- I think Al Aza-wa-hiry is a lucky find for Osama Bin Laden

in the sense that his organization

had some very talented military people.

Former military officers, Egyptian special forces officers,

security people, police men,

bomb makers, munitions handlers,

- We believe in our religion,

- Aza-wa-hiry's version of Jihad

is that there is only one correct form of Islam,

theirs, and that anyone, even fellow Muslims

who don't rise up to support them,

are fair targets.

- If you didn't worship the right way,

if you didn't pray the right way,

if you didn't believe these things,

you really were just another infidel,

a Muslim perhaps, but an infidel and he was willing

to kill all kinds of people.

- Az-awa-hiry also believes

they should concentrate their fight on what he calls,

the near enemy.

Those countries in the Arab world who lack his fanaticism.

Though Bin Laden is drawn to Al Aza-wa-hiry's extremism,

in one respect he wants to go even further.

Jihad should be spread everywhere.

- Bin Laden said, you know, that's never going to work,

we need to have a bigger impact in the world

if we're going to do what we want to do,

if the Jihad is to be accomplished.

- That same year,

Bin Laden reveals what he means by everywhere.

He delivers his first speech denouncing the United States.

- The Americans take our money

and give them to the Jews so that they can kill

our children with it in Palestine.

- In preparation for global Jihad,

Bin Laden sets up an organization he calls The Base,

in Arabic Al Qaeda.

There are four basic components to the Al Qaeda organization

at it's inceptions.

The first is to build fighters for training,

advising and combat.

The second is administrative.

The third deals with religious matters,

issuing Fatwa's and developing courses for members.

The fourth is a media propaganda wing.

Later Bin Laden will add its own military faction.

- There a righteous mission, and the mission is

in fact to destroy western influence,

but also to defend Islam.

Which is very important that they are in fact

the soldier's of the right, they are righteous

and this belief is very strong.

- From the time Bin Laden organized Al Qaeda,

he viewed it as an enduring organization

that would move on it from after Afghanistan

to help Muslims who were defending Islam

in other areas of the world.

He saw it as the vanguard of a bigger movement

of a bigger Jihad.

He was outspoken, if you will, in his saying

that we are just a small group of people, our job

is to inspire, instigate, other Muslims

to join the Jihad,

and I think that message was a very powerful one.

- Bin Laden's global vision was what drove the whole thing

and of course his financing.

He was the first Islamic Jihadist that had the finances

not just the finances but the leadership capability

to actually pull this off.

- He now does something extraordinary,

he demands that all it's members swear a religious oath

to him, personally.

In one step he goes from being one among many holy warriors

into a cult like figure in who's name

servants will terrorize the world.

- It changed everything, now he believed he was

a kind of Islamic Messiah that could take the struggle

to other countries.

- In 1989, Russia's war in Afghanistan

finally comes to an end.

The Soviets are humiliated and withdraw.

- The defeat of the Soviet Union and their push out

of Afghanistan was a huge moment for Bin Laden.

- Claiming credit for the Afghan victory,

the Al Qaeda leader speaks of two vital lessons

their victory teaches,

- He realized that he can achieve a great deal

in terms of imposing inordinate amounts of violence

on your enemy even though they may be

much better armed than you.

- Secondly, he believes victory is proof

that God is on his side.

- Bin Laden thought it was essential to make this a victory,

granted of course, by Allah, but a victory for the entire

Islamic world and not just for the Afghans.

It showed that Arabs could stand up on the battlefield

and defeat a super power.

- From 1989 onwards, Osama Bin Laden

no longer wastes any time wondering whether

his enemies can be beaten, it's how they can be beaten.

Having brought down one super power,

he know focuses on the other.

What he sees as the biggest evil, the United States.

A year after the Soviet forces are routed,

the brutal Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein

moves 100,000 soldiers onto the Kuwaitian Saudi borders

ready to invade.

Bin Laden returns to his home country, Saudi Arabia

and immediately sends a message to the Saudi royal family

offering to form an army of 30,000 Afghan veterans

to defeat Saddam,

an offer that is rejected.

- One of the most significant events in Bin Laden's life

which eventually led to 9/11,

was the Saudi government rebuffed his request

and told him no thank you, we don't need you,

we've got the United States,

we're bringing the United States into Saudi Arabia.

- The Prophet is repeated to have said on his death bed

that if I live there will be no other religion

on the Arab peninsula but Islam

and I think Bin Laden was extraordinarily offended

by the Saudi's decision to invite Christians

to defend them.

- Bin Laden watches as 300,000

male and female US soldiers arrive in his country.

They set about building bases,

drinking alcohol,

and sun bathing.

- Wave after wave, as American troops came into Saudi Arabia

and established bases, was abomination upon abomination

for Osama Bin Laden.

And the Saudi Royal family was welcoming it all.

- In his eyes, the infidel US

cannot be the salvation of Saudi Arabia.

- The American government

has made the greatest mistake in entering the peninsula

that no religion from the non Muslim states

has entered for 14 centuries.

- It literally changed him and in his mind

he would not stop until he saw the United States destroyed.

- But when Bin Laden asks fellow Muslims

to rise up against this outrage,

the Saudi regime grows uneasy.

Raids his home and places him under house arrest.

- They wanted him banished, they took away his citizenship

cut off the seven million dollar stipend

his family was getting and literally just disconnected him

from Saudi Arabia, considering him now, a threat

directly to the royal family.

- With the Saudi government threatening

to imprison him, he flees to Sudan

where there's an Islamic government.

In the early 1990s, the radical national Islamic front

are in power.

And Sudan has a reputation as a safe haven

for terrorist organizations.

It is also a bankrupt country that needs money.

Bin Laden is invited in and becomes known

as a walking bank.

- He had to build roads, major motor ways,

various engineering projects,

he employed a lot of local people,

and he was very much welcomed in Sudan

for a long time.

- All this is simply cover

for Bin Laden's real operations.

He sets up a new headquarters for Al Qaeda in a rich suburb

of Khartoum in 1992.

And establishes a serious of investment, transportation

agricultural and construction companies.

All are designed and operated to secure explosives,

weapons and chemicals for his terrorist organization.

- There were stories about wells developing,

wells in Sudan an plane went from Sudan carrying sugar

and came back absolutely jam packed with rifles,

explosives, rocket propelled grenades, from Afghanistan.

- Bin Laden seems to have disappeared

off the radar.

Then in 1993, he announced himself to the western world.

Over 1000 are injured when a bomb explodes

under New Yorks World Trade center, six are dead.

- Although the direct connection with Al Qaeda

was never established, most scholars believe

it was in the shadows but it was there.

- The CIA certainly take Bin Laden

extremely seriously and set up

a special unit to focus on him.

It's called the Osama Bin Laden unit

and is led by Mike Schauar.

It's clear that they are dealing with a terrorist

the likes of which they have never seen before.

- We had in 1996, Sudanese walk into one of our Embassies

in east Africa and it turns out the gentlemen was

a body guard of Osama Bin Laden while he was living

in the Sudan.

What he described was an organization unlike any

we had seen.

And it was involved not just in bombing and fighting

but it was involved in trying to procure

or build weapons of mass destruction.

- In May 1996, Bin Laden leaves Sudan

for Afghanistan where he's welcomed

with open arms by the militant Islam, Taliban regime.

- I think when you see how Bin Laden was welcomed back

into Afghanistan, you can see

that the Afghan's perceive themselves under debt to him.

Not only monetary debt, but also under personal debt

to the risks he took with his own life

during their war against communists.

- Al Qaeda's reputation now grows

to a whole new level.

His stance against American values and the feebleness

of the Saudi Regime, makes him a hero

to radical Muslims and people who believe

they are the underdogs, all over the world.

Drawn by the chance to fight back

against American imperialism, thousands of Muslims

from Kashmir, Pakistan, India, and the Soviet Republics

come flooding to his cause.

And he trains his new recruits in bomb making

and terrorist tactics.

All the while he ramps up his anti-American rhetoric.

In February 1998, he says,

- To kill Americans and their allies

both civil and military is an individual duty

of every Muslim who is able until their armies shattered

and broken winged depart from all the lands

of Islam incapable of threatening any Muslim.

- He adds a new dimension to his skill

as a military organizer,

a truly evil, terrorist imagination.

- One of the traumatic changes in his operational techniques

was when he changed and began using suicide bombers

in his attacks.

What that created for the first time in history

was an army of essentially smart bombs.

These were bombs with human brains,

that they could think, they could navigate,

and commit acts of terror that up til that time

could never be committed in such an operational fashion.

- On August the 7th, 1998, a truck is driven

into the US embassy in Kenya.

the suicide bomber kills 213 people.

Including 12 Americans and wounding 4600.

Most of the victims are Kenyan civilians.

- He had made a transition from a Saudi Socialite

a wealthy person into this horrible mass murderer

that could care less about the death of innocent people.

- Four minutes later a second suicide bomb

at the US embassy in Tanzania explodes.

11 are killed, 84 injured, this is the first time

Bin Laden does what will become his signature,

the multiple attack.

- They became more and more ruthless

and specifically focusing on American interests

and American people and calling for Muslims

to start killing them.

- These acts of terrorist violence are abhorrent,

they are inhuman, we will use all the means

at our disposal.

- In retaliation, President Clinton

fires 75 cruise missiles at Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan,

other missiles demolish a factory in Sudan.

But these attacks only anger the Muslim world

and feed Bin Laden's image as an Islamic hero.

He goads America further.

- I am not afraid of the American threats

against me, as long as I am alive there will be no rest

for the enemies of Islam.

I will continue my mission against them.

- It's a cold blooded promise.

Next, he targets the US military.

A small boat manned by suicide bombers

rips a massive hole in the billion dollar

American destroyer, the USS Cole in the port of Aiden.

Killing 17 American sailors, 39 others are injured.

But for all his success, Bin Laden's terrorism,

isn't achieving his goal.

His aim is to lure the US to attack him inside Afghanistan

where they have no allies

and where they can be picked off

from the hills by guerrillas.

Just like what happened to the Soviets in the 80s.

His inspiration is Vietnam.

- He looked at the example of Vietnam

American sent half a million troops in Vietnam

but they ended up by being defeated.

So therefore this great Satan in the west,

which appears to be very very powerful military power,

can be defeated.

- For that tactic to work,

he needs to find a way to make sure

the Americans come after him.

- He really thought they needed a big attack

and he was always a man who liked big things,

in terms of actions.

- Osama Bin Laden will devise a plan so evil,

it will change the world forever.

And force America to give him the attention he craves.

- The vision which they had for 9/11

were to deliver such a blow to the United States,

it will so antagonize the Americans

that they will overreact.

- So the head of Al Qaeda dusts off an old idea

that has been floating around since 1995.

- Bin Laden was aware of what's called the Bo Jacob plot,

which was a plot to use airlines coming

from foreign countries into the United States

and explode those planes.

- The original plan involves hijacking

and flying 10 planes piloted by suicide operatives

into 10 targets on America's east and west coasts.

It fits in with his favorite MO of hitting multiple targets

at the same time.

Bin Laden decides to streamline the idea,

he will use fewer planes

but strike at the very heart of American values,

their businesses, military systems and centers

of political power.

- In Bin Laden's mind the World Trade Center towers

were the representation of what America was.

In his mind hedonistic, materialistic, immoral,

greedy, exporting that greed and that money

all around the world.

- It doesn't matter to him

that these are civilian targets,

including some Muslims.

- It was okay to attack symbolic targets

even if they included innocent civilians

because that was Allah's will,

if they were good Muslims they would go to heaven

if they weren't they would not

and his developing ideology that was just fine.

- The 21st century's most vicious terrorist

now brings together all his knowledge

and everything that has ever motivated him.

His business studies and organizational skills,

his ability to raise vast sums of money

and to mobilize recruits from any where in the world,

his knowledge of covert operations,

and how to obtain weapons,

his expertise in explosives, learned from his father,

and his knowledge of civil engineering

and how buildings are constructed.

- So for Bin Laden to begin to plan an attack

against a building in his understanding

of actually hitting a building fit right into

his construction background.

- Bin Laden will later recall

their expectations when the first plane

hits the World Trade Center tower.

But for all his expertise, he vastly underestimates

the effectiveness of the impact.

- We calculated in advance the number

of casualties from the enemy, who would be killed

on the position of the tower,

we calculated that the floors that would be hit

would be three or four floors,

due to my experience in this field,

I was thinking that the fire from all the fuel

in the plane would hit all the floors above it only.

This is all we hoped for.

- In the autumn of 1999 Bin Laden

personally chooses the four main suicide operatives

for what he calls, the planes operation.

The lead hijacker, Egyptian born Muhammed Atta,

is an aspiring Jihadist living in Germany.

He's selected for his anti American fervor,

his fluency in English and his familiarity

of life in the west.

The other three are all long term Al Qaeda veterans

who swear loyalty to Bin Laden a year earlier.

In all, 19 operatives will carry out the suicide attacks.

- Osama Bin Laden said they were doing something

which would in fact mean that they would be martyrs

and heroes which would help Islam and would help

the whole Muslim world.

- To make sure the operation bears his signature,

he explains that all the planes hijacked

in the United States must be crashed

of exploded at nearly the same time,

to maximize the psychological impact.

On the morning of September the 11th, 2001

Osama Bin Laden invited guests round

to listen to the news on his radio.

- Immediately we heard the news

that a plane had hit the World Trade Center,

the brothers were overjoyed.

- He tells his guests, be patient,

more is to come.

- What's going on?

- Osama Bin Laden had learnt that one of the rules

of war is surprise.

Your greatest ally is surprise and he achieved that.

- Jesus.

- The operation succeeds

beyond his wildest dreams.

Now everyone around the world knows his name.

- It was a live televised almost Hollywood-esque

terrorist event and this constituted

the most successful terrorist attack of all time.

- In the days following the 9/11 attacks,

throughout the middle east young men in cafes

would watch the even being played over and over

on television and weep with joy and admiration

over what Bin Laden had achieved.

- Sit down, sit down for a second,

try and sit down.

- A total of 2,977 people

are killed in New York City, Washington DC

and Pennsylvania.

- It was just a scene of utter horror.

The shock on people's faces, the funerals,

the endless funerals, of firemen and civilians

having been killed in the collapse of the Two Towers

was really really tragic.

Photographers weeping as they witnessed it.

I think America was deep in shock, this had never happened

to them before.

- Following the attacks,

Bin Laden pronounces,

- America has been hit by Allah

at his most vulnerable point, destroying thank God,

it's most prestigious buildings.

- Six days after the 9/11 attacks,

the US President George W Bush declares,

- I want him, hell I want justice.

And there's an old poster out west, as I recall,

that said, wanted, dead or alive.

- Osama Bin Laden becomes America's most wanted

with a 25 million dollar reward on his head.

The hunt for the world's most evil terrorist is on.

Just as Bin Laden has wanted all along,

America at last invades Afghanistan.

- When the Americans launched their war on terror,

it means they would go anywhere in the world

and use military force to eliminate anything that we saw as

Al Qaeda or terrorist group.

- US planes carry out heavy bombing raids

on Al Qaeda positions.

And elite Delta Force commandos search for Bin Laden

deep inside the Tora Bora caves.

But he alludes capture fleeing to Pakistan.

- Bin Laden disappeared from the world scene.

CIA and virtually every other allied intelligence service

in the world was trying to find out where he was.

- As the head of Al Qaeda hides

from his American hunters,

he releases video and audio tape messages

which reach audiences of millions

and inspire terrorist attacks around the world.

- Bin Laden and his personality, have now replicated itself

in some 80 odd groups that were now carrying out

attacks as if they were Al Qaeda.

- But if the aim of 9/11 was to spark

a massive Islamic uprising, it fails.

Horrific as these attacks are,

the west remains stable.

Instead, Bin Laden is forced to hole up

in a secret compound enclosure in Abbottabad

at the foothills of the Himalayas in Pakistan.

At first he fears the possibility if being seen

during his daily walks in the garden.

- He knew he was being hunted from the skies,

he knew that, you know, just one sighting

by a drone of a six foot three figure

would lead to his annihilation.

- To evade American eyes he follows

exceptional security procedures.

He uses no electronic devices,

and communicates only via a trusted courier.

But as the years of seclusion grow,

there are consequences, he becomes irrelevant.

Forced isolation means that he can no longer be

the leader of extreme Islam.

- Bin Laden was no longer the active commander

that he used to be, he was the most wanted man on Earth.

He couldn't go anywhere.

He was wasting away, trapped inside his own prison.

- I protest to God so much about my isolation

and being alone, I worry people will tire of me

and will become old and worn out to them.

But I protest only to God.

- Over time Bin Laden becomes a shell

of his former self.

And his days are endlessly mundane.

- Most of the accounts that we received

indicated that he simply sat inside most of the day

watching videos of his old speeches over and over and over.

- In 2010, as he continues his walks

alone around his garden, he has no idea

that an NSA satellite is watching.

It has spotted a mysterious, tall man,

constantly walking in circles.

The CIA are notified.

The agents give the mysterious man the nickname, The Pacer,

and they plan to get him.

In the small hours of the morning on May the 1st, 2011

the world's most wanted terrorist

is awoken by the sound of an explosion.

He turns to his wife and says, don't turn on the light.

It is the last words he will ever say.

- Move, Move, Move.

- Navy Seals burst into the compound.

they find the Al Qaeda leader in an upstairs bedroom

with a pistol and an assault rifle nearby.

- I can report to the American people,

and to the world that the United States has conducted

an operation that killed Osama Bin Laden

the leader of Al Qaeda.

- Over the next 24 hours,

Bin Laden is buried in a religious funeral at sea

so his body could never become a shrine.

But even so, Islamic terrorism hasn't gone away.

As one fanatical leader dies, another movement is born.

- Right now, as you can see by simply looking around

the fire has spread everywhere.

It's the responsibility of Osama Bin Laden

but he's no longer necessary for it.

- By convincing impressionable young men

that he alone followed the correct form of Islam,

that he had a God given right to determine

who should live and die, and that anyone who opposed him

was inferior and should be condemned,

Bin Laden applied much

the same psychological tricks as Hitler.

They allowed him to create a culture

which justifies terrorism and brutality.

But by his own terms, Osama Bin Laden is a failure.

There has been no Islamic uprising against the west

and the Arab world remains in absolute turmoil.