- Five 'home videos' released by U.S. shows Bin Laden's life in the compound
- Footage shows Bin Laden in a gold robe speaking to the camera in propaganda video outtakes
- Also shows him flipping through satellite channels trying to find coverage of himself on TV
- Intelligence officer describes evidence at compound at 'single largest collection' of senior terrorist material ever
- Other, shaky footage shows litter-strewn compound in barely habitable state
- House worth no more than $250,000 say experts
The videos were seized by Navy SEALs after Bin Laden was killed Monday. They were shown to reporters this afternoon by intelligence officials.
The five movies offer the first public glimpse at Bin Laden's life behind the walls of his compound in suburban Pakistan.
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Image-obsessed: One of the five videos shows Bin Laden sitting on the dirty floor of the compound watching video footage of himself on television
Practice: New video footage released by the White House today shows Osama Bin Laden wearing a gold robe in what appears to be a propaganda video outtake
The terror leader is shown in several different outtakes from propaganda videos. In the centre image above, he is standing before a wooden armoire that U.S. intelligence says was found in the Pakistan compound
The government-selected clips also provide an opportunity for the U.S. to paint Bin Laden in an unflattering light to his supporters. The videos include outtakes of his propaganda films and, taken together, portray him as someone obsessed with his own image and how he is portrayed to the world - even from the confines of the compound.
The videos, released by U.S. intelligence officials Saturday, were offered as further proof that Navy SEALs killed the world's most wanted terrorist this week.
But they also served to show bin Laden as vain, someone obsessed with his portrayal by the world's media.
One of the movies shows bin Laden, his unkempt beard streaked in gray, sitting on the floor, wrapped in a brown blanket and holding a remote control.
WHAT THE VIDEOS SHOW
VIDEO 1: An outtake from a propaganda video, it is said to be a complete but unreleased message to the American people.
It is dated sometime between October 9 and November 5, 2010, according to U.S. intelligence.
Bin Laden is shown sitting down, dressed in a gold robe. His grey beard is dyed black.
There is no audio but an official said he is condemning U.S. policy and capitalism.
VIDEO 2: This footage shows Bin Laden, his beard grey, sitting on the dirty floor of the compound watching a television with video of his own images playing.
A TV screen shows a menu of channels from which he makes a selection using a remote control.
A video of the terror leader appears on the screen before the camera pans over to show Bin Laden watching himself.
He is wearing a black hat and is swathed in a blanket.
VIDEO 3: Another practice video shows Bin Laden, his beard dyed black, standing in front of what was described as a wooden armoire. Intelligence officials say they found the same armoire in the compound. The video has not been dated.
It is dated sometime between October 9 and November 5, 2010, according to U.S. intelligence.
Bin Laden is shown sitting down, dressed in a gold robe. His grey beard is dyed black.
There is no audio but an official said he is condemning U.S. policy and capitalism.
VIDEO 2: This footage shows Bin Laden, his beard grey, sitting on the dirty floor of the compound watching a television with video of his own images playing.
A TV screen shows a menu of channels from which he makes a selection using a remote control.
A video of the terror leader appears on the screen before the camera pans over to show Bin Laden watching himself.
He is wearing a black hat and is swathed in a blanket.
VIDEO 3: Another practice video shows Bin Laden, his beard dyed black, standing in front of what was described as a wooden armoire. Intelligence officials say they found the same armoire in the compound. The video has not been dated.
In another, he has apparently dyed and neatly trimmed his beard for the filming of a propaganda video.
The video, which the U.S. released without sound, was titled 'Message to the American People' and was believed to be filed sometime last fall, a senior CIA official told reporters today.
The videos were seized from Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Officials said the clips shown to reporters were just part of the largest collection of senior terrorist materials ever collected.
The evidence seized during the raid also includes phone numbers and documents that officials hope will help break the back of the organization behind the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Intelligence officials have known that Bin Laden and Al Qaeda monitored the news. But for years, when it was assumed that he was living in Pakistan's rugged, mountainous tribal region, some believed he might not be able to get real-time news.
After the CIA discovered Bin Laden's suburban compound, they realized that a satellite dish provided a television feed to Bin Laden's compound.
The video also reveals that Bin Laden had a computer in his home, though officials say there were no Internet or phone lines running from the house.
They emerged today as other video footage leaked to Al Jazeera showed the terror leader had been living in virtual squalor in Abottabad.
Strewn with rubbish and with paint peeling off the walls, the dirt-infested compound appears barely habitable and is a far cry from initial claims the compound was a sophisticated $1million hideaway.
The ramshackle structure resembles a building site and the pictures of the outside show steel rods protruding from the roof, suggesting it may have been incomplete.
Of course, some damage would have been caused during the American Navy Seal mission to capture the 9/11 mastermind, but the footage is still very revealing.
It was released today on the Al Jazeera English website and gives a shaky tour of what appears to be the inside of the main house, a few outbuildings and a small fruitless orchard.
The stash is part of a wealth of information collected during the U.S. raid that killed Bin Laden and four others last week.
The information suggests Bin Laden played a strong role in planning and directing attacks by Al-Qaeda and its affiliates in Yemen and Somalia, two senior officials said.
Rubbish-strewn: With paint peeling off the walls, the dirt-infested compound appears barely habitable and is a far cry from original claims the compound was a sophisticated £1m hideaway
Squalid: It seems hard to believe the mastermind of 9-11 and countless other terrorist atrocities lived in such conditions
Despite protests from Pakistan, defeating Al-Qaeda and taking out its senior leaders in Pakistan remains a top U.S. priority, demonstrated by the attempted assassination attempt on the man tipped to replace Bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen on Thursday.
The U.S. remains defiant despite complains from Islamabad that the raid on Bin Laden's compound violated the country's sovereignty, an anonymous senior defense official said yesterday.
Glimpse: The wife of Osama Bin Laden, Amal al-Sadah, pictured right, says she lived with her husband in the same room for the past five years
Al-Qaeda itself vowed revenge, confirming Bin Laden's death for the first time but issuing a chilling warning that Americans' 'happiness will turn to sadness'.
Following last week's raid, the U.S. has already launched a drone strike into Pakistan as well as the one in Yemen, in the days since bin Laden was killed.
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