The helmet cams blacked out but the overhead drone with heat and nightvision was still on.

The two Pakistani and one Arab in the picture were all unarmed. Two pictures of the damaged helicopter have also been released. The pictures showed that computers and various devices were also present in the compound. A witnesses told The Express Tribune, over two hours the helicopters and the C-130 aircraft hovered over the palatial mansion where bin Laden was hiding before launching the assault.

“A US military C-130 transport plane, equipped with hi-tech intelligence gadgets, also flew from the same base to support the highly secretive operation,” a source told The Express Tribune. And former chief of Pakistan’s top spy agency ISI also endorsed the information. “A large number of US troops, along with their war machine, have been maintaining presence at Tarbela since long,” said Lt-Gen (retd) Hamid Gul.

For over two hours the helicopters and the C-130 aircraft hovered over the palatial mansion where bin Laden was hiding before launching the assault, witnesses told The Express Tribune.