US official: bin Laden haul is biggest ever (Donilon)

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110508/ap_on_re_us/us_bin_laden_intelligence

The national security adviser for the White House says the material seized from Osma bin Laden's compound in Pakistan amounts to the largest cache of intelligence ever gathered from any single terrorist.

During an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press," national security adviser Tom Donilon (DAHN'-uh-lihn) said the CIA estimated the intelligence haul to be the size of a small college library.

Donilon says that the United States cannot consider al-Qaida to be strategically defeated. However, he says that the nation has reached an important milestone in the struggle to take down the terrorist organization.

The national security adviser says that al-Qaida deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri is not anywhere near the leader that bin Laden was, but that the threat will continue.


Obama OK'd raid based on '50-50' chance bin Laden was there (Donilon)
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/08/official-obama-okd-raid-based-on-50-50-chance-bin-laden-was-there/

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1. I thought I had read where they had recovered about 3TB of data

Is he talking about a small beauty college library worth of intelligence?

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2. Hillsdale College

Where the library consists of the Bible and the complete works of Limbaugh, Beck and Coulter.

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3. How will they continue to get the money they need?

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4. Good, glad to hear it. nt