Weaver, whose wife and son were killed in a stand-off with federal agents four years ago in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, offered to help negotiate with the "Freemen, " who have been holed up on a ranch in east-central Montana since Monday.
According to information gathered by the Central Intelligence Agency, bin Laden was holed up on the third floor of a house in a one-acre compound just off Kakul Road in Bilal Town, a middle-class neighborhood less than a mile from the entrance to the academy.