At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan.

And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of his holy war.

At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan.

The image we have of bin Laden in his final years in Abbottabad is of an aging man with a graying beard watching old footage of himself; just another suburban dad flipping though the channels with his remote.

There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing.

Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.

Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.