ABC News exclusive video from inside the mansion where Osama bin Laden was killed

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Bin Laden Compound Raid: First Look Inside An exclusive look inside the mansion where Osama bin Laden was killed.

The AP reports that Bin Laden found near Pakistani military academy:

Osama bin Laden was holed up in a two-story house 100 yards from a Pakistani military academy when four helicopters carrying U.S. anti-terror forces swooped in the early-morning hours and killed him.

Flames rose today from the building that was the apparent target of the raid as it was confirmed that the world's most wanted fugitive died not in a cave, but in a town best known as a garrison for the Pakistani military. A U.S. official said one of bin Laden's sons also was killed in the raid along with three others, but the official did not name the son nor the others killed.

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Abbottabad is home to at least one regiment of the Pakistani army, dotted with military buildings and home to thousands of army personnel. Surrounded by hills and with mountains in the distance, it is less than half a day's drive from the border region with Afghanistan, where most intelligence assessments believed bin Laden was holed up.

The news he was killed in an army town in Pakistan will raise more pointed questions of how he managed to evade capture and whether Pakistan's military and intelligence leadership knew of his whereabouts and sheltered him. Critics have long accused elements of Pakistan's security establishment of protecting bin Laden, though Islamabad has always denied this.

Pakistan's intelligence agency (ISI) has long been accused of having provided intelligence and logistical support to the 9/11 terrorists, and is well-known to be the sponsor of the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan. Pakistan has been sheltering and supporting these terrorists for years. The real problem is and always has been Pakistan. The world has yet to confront this reality.

UPDATE: More from the Huffington Post:

Abbottabad, an hour's drive from the beautiful tourist town of Nathiagali, has its own airport. That would have made it convenient and easy for visitors to come to Bin Laden, and for him and his team members to leave quickly if they had warning of an attack. And while all of this is preliminary information, it paints a picture of a life lived in luxury, in the shadow of a major military base.

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The Military Academy is described as "Pakistan's West Point." Students of military uprisings may remember that a number of coups have been instigated by officer cadres who formed alliances in military academies.

The Frontier Force Regiment, which is based in Abbottabad, contains 67 armored and artillery battalions. It fought in several battles with India over the disputed province of Kashmir, and served as part of the multinational coalition that battled Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War. The Abbottabad base also features the Army Medical Center, a full hospital capable of treating virtually any kind of health problem. (If Bin Laden suffered renal failure, as was widely rumored, this would have been an ideal location.)