Analyst: Bin Laden was living like a prisoner

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CBS News:

(CBS News) Newly-surfaced video of the villa where Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces and had been in hiding for several years show conditions so Spartan it's "a little bit like he was under house arrest" and was virtually "a prisoner," according to CBS News National Security Analyst Juan Zarate.

The video, says CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer, was probably shot secretly by a Pakistani security official.

Zarate told "Early Show on Saturday Morning" co-anchor Rebecca Jarvis the Obama administration "clearly" wants bin Laden's death "to be the start of a push to go after al Qaeda leadership. Not just in Pakistan, but around the world.

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Zarate observed, "One of the things that surprised me (in viewing the video) is, with bin Laden having been in this compound for about five, maybe six years, it's a little bit like he was under house arrest. He was really a prisoner, in a sense, in this compound. And so, what we may be looking at is a dimension of the prison that he was in for about five years there in Abbottabad."

Short article, worth the full read. Includes video.

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