Bin Laden's location - a fortified compound in a wealthy town just two hours outside of Islamabad - was something that U.S. forces had been working for almost a year.
While the death of Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden is certainly the realization of the award of the incursion of the U.S. military Hidden in a compound in Pakistan over the weekend, a wealth of potential Intel might try to hit even greater terrorist network.
After taking the U.S. military's most wanted destination in a mission that was liveblogged Twitter unwittingly, the team of Navy SEALs have seized a collection full of computer equipment throughout the complex otherwise low-tech. The raid shelter Bin Laden, just 35 kilometers from the capital of Pakistan, was a spread of computers, hard drives, and other data storage devices that could hold key to U.S. Intel objectives involved with Al-Qaeda.
The government has already begun to search the computers of pieces of potential military intelligence in a race against time to act on any potential Intel before al-Qaeda have the opportunity to recover from the sudden execution of their leader. The devices can store the names of unknown agents of Al-Qaeda, the location of more outposts scattered secret like that is Bin Laden, or suggestions about what kind of targets of the terrorist organization has an eye to future attacks .
According to a U.S. officers, even if the data is encrypted and only partially recovered, the potential intelligence bonanza could prove critical to U.S. efforts against terrorism: "It will be great, but only 10 percent of it is actionable Can you imagine what it is Osama. Bin Laden hard drive?"