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U.S. forces then moved upstairs where they found bin Laden in a room with a woman believed to be his wife -- both unarmed, Carney said. She rushed the U.S. forces and was shot in the leg but not killed. Bin Laden resisted and was shot and killed, Carney said.
On Monday, President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, said bin Laden was resisting and had a weapon, though he added that it was unclear whether bin Laden had fired a shot.
Asked Tuesday why the decision was made to shoot and kill bin Laden if he was not armed, Carney said that "he resisted." He did not explain how bin Laden resisted.
Materials taken from the compound included 10 hard drives, five computers and more than 100 storage devices, a senior U.S. official told CNN Tuesday. Among the storage devices are disks, DVDs and thumb drives, the source said.
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"We were on the compound for about 40 minutes and we were able to acquire some material that was there; a lot of that is currently being exploited and reviewed," the White House senior adviser on counterterrorism, John Brennan, told CNN Tuesday.
"What we're most interested in is seeing if we can get any insight into any terrorist plot that might be under way so we can take the measures to stop any type of attack planning. Secondly, we're trying to look and see whether or not there are leads to other individuals within the organization or insights into their capabilities."
A senior Pakistani intelligence official said people at the compound told the intelligence services that the United States took away one person in addition to the body of bin Laden. "There is no way to confirm who they took. It was bin Laden plus one," the source said.
But U.S. officials have indicated otherwise.
"There were several women and children on the compound," a senior defense official said Monday. "One woman, who was used as a human shield by one of the four military-age males on the compound, was killed; he was firing behind her. Two women, including one with Osama bin Laden, were wounded. And the rest were not injured at all. The noncombatants were moved to a safe location at the end of the operation, as the damaged helicopter was detonated, to ensure their safety."
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The way I see it, Osama was unarmed because he figured this way he wouldn't be killed, but he din't know they wanted him dead.
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