<p>The three women, who are in Pakistani custody since the May 1 American raid that killed bin Laden inside his Abbottabad hideout, just 50 km from Islamabad, US officials hope could unravel the mystery besides possibly providing more information about Al Qaeda.<br /><br />"We've asked for access, obviously, to those folks," the White House national security adviser, Thomas E. Donilon told ABC News Sunday referring to bin Laden's family.<br /><br />He also called upon Pakistani officials to provide Washington additional intelligence it might have gathered from the bin Laden hideout.<br /><br />Donilon said the White House had put together a special task force to comb through the captured data and that it would work under Obama's direction to pursue any leads the information yielded.</p>.<p>"The CIA is describing it to us as the size of a small college library," Donilon said. But he would not say whether the data indicated any imminent threats to the United States.<br />While declining to comment on the specifics of the raid, Donilon said that the world view was that the raid was justified.</p>.<p>"The messages that have come back to us from around the world, and I study this fairly closely, is that this was a just action, that in fact this was a just action against a man who had committed murder, not just in the United States but around the world."</p>
<p>The three women, who are in Pakistani custody since the May 1 American raid that killed bin Laden inside his Abbottabad hideout, just 50 km from Islamabad, US officials hope could unravel the mystery besides possibly providing more information about Al Qaeda.<br /><br />"We've asked for access, obviously, to those folks," the White House national security adviser, Thomas E. Donilon told ABC News Sunday referring to bin Laden's family.<br /><br />He also called upon Pakistani officials to provide Washington additional intelligence it might have gathered from the bin Laden hideout.<br /><br />Donilon said the White House had put together a special task force to comb through the captured data and that it would work under Obama's direction to pursue any leads the information yielded.</p>.<p>"The CIA is describing it to us as the size of a small college library," Donilon said. But he would not say whether the data indicated any imminent threats to the United States.<br />While declining to comment on the specifics of the raid, Donilon said that the world view was that the raid was justified.</p>.<p>"The messages that have come back to us from around the world, and I study this fairly closely, is that this was a just action, that in fact this was a just action against a man who had committed murder, not just in the United States but around the world."</p>