The surveillance team regularly spotted a tall man walking through the compound's courtyard, although they never confirmed whether this was Bin Laden.
Such was the cost of the operation that the CIA requested tens of millions of dollars in extra funding from Congress in December last year, officials told the Washington Post.
Staff at an FBI lab at the marine corps base in Quantico, Virginia, have been poring over the trove of data as quickly as possible in case it describes any imminent attacks, but as yet there have been no specific alerts.
"He [Bin Laden] wasn't just a figurehead," one unnamed US official told the New York Times. "He continued to plot and plan, to come up with ideas about targets and to communicate those ideas to other senior al-Qaida leaders."
The department of homeland security has ordered additional security at airports and other transport hubs, and issued a precautionary note about the railway plot. "As of February 2010, al-Qaida was allegedly contemplating conducting an operation against trains at an unspecified location in the United States on the 10th anniversary of 11 September 2001," it said.
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