[Baldwin:] Thanks for tuning in to CNN here on your Memorial Day. Let me bring you up to speed in some of the other top stories including in Libya, an apparent major blow today to leader Moammar Gadhafi. CNN has learned that eight Army generals have defected. They're now in Italy. Gadhafi's military has been battling rebel forces in that country for weeks and weeks now. The opposition has said that there cannot be any sort of peace agreement as long as Gadhafi is still in power. In Serbia, the lawyer for Ratko Mladic wants the former Bosnian Serb general to be re-examined by a team of medical specialists. He says the 69-year-old former commander is not healthy enough to face all of these charges of genocide at the International Criminal Tribunal at The Hague. In the meantime, the chief prosecutor denies that Mladic is in poor health saying he's been, quote, "lively and joking since being taken into custody last week." Remember he is the man accused of overseeing the massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys back in 1995. Big, big news for Buckeye fans. Ohio State University said Jim Trussel, the head football coach has resigned. The school fined Trussel $250,000 in March and suspended after he failed to report that some of his players may have violated some of those NCAAA rules. So now Assistant Coach Lou Fickel will serve as interim coach come next football season. And very few people in the west have heard of the small town in Pakistan where al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is hiding out. Well, now a month after his death, new details about the place are still hard, if not impossible to come by. CNN's Stan Grant has found that out for himself. Watch this.
[Cnn Stan Grant, Cnn Correspondent:] One month on, killing Osama Bin Laden has not won America too many friends here. The shopkeeper lives less than 200 meters from where Bin Laden lived and died. He has more sympathy for the slain al Qaeda leader than foreigners, wearing at us, calling us pigs. Are Muslims terrorists every way, he says. Actually America is the biggest terrorist. Others though are friendlier. This boy, Zara, approaches us with a story to tell. He and his sister, Aza, befriended Bin Laden's youngest children and grandchildren. They say they were two boys, one girl, 7, 4 and 3- years-olds. Zara relives the cricket games he played with them. That's the white Bin Laden you can see behind us. Contradicting reports that no outsiders have reached the Bin Laden security, Zara says he actually played inside the compound itself, getting a close look at a secret world. Despite being neighbors, the brother and sister, he didn't know the Bin Laden children's names. The children told them their father was the family courier they called Nadeen. Only now that they know who their playmates really were. My grandmother asked in Pashto who is your father, Aza says, they say Nadeen. They always say Nadeen. Through this brother and sister, we get to piece together daily life in the Bin Laden compound. Rather than speaking from local language, the Bin Laden's preferred Pashto, the language of the Afghanistan- Pakistan order. They were normal family, friendly the children say. They never saw Osama Bin Laden. He remained well hidden. They did meet the Bin Laden wives. They were two aunties standing in the house, Zara says. They asked me how was I, where did I live, what did my mother do. I told them my mother was a housewife. They wore ordinary Pakistani clothes. Zara says he noticed the women were different from other mothers in the neighborhood. They spoke in a strange language he says, very poor [inaudible] and then I thought probably they were Arabic and the children were different too. Even in this Muslim community, they were especially devout. They were very religious, Zara says. Whenever I went there to play, they ask me to wait until afternoon prayer and then they would stop playing later for evening prayer. Aza shows us pet rabbits, a gift from the Bin Laden family. After everything she says, she misses her friends. They were young. They were beautiful. I really miss them. They were the only children we played with. Zara and Aza's father is a government official in the Justice Department. Yet, Osama Bin Laden lived right next door and no one knew. The Bin Laden's lived this way for years in the heart of Abbottabad, a military city in the mountains, two hours' drive north from Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. Now the area is in lockdown. In recent days, it's been open to the CIA to collect material and information, but no such access for us. As we tried to get close, this is what happens. The police say they are under instructions to smash our camera to get us back and we weren't be going in further. [on camera]: Well, this is clearly as far as we're going to go. We're not going to get any closer to the Bin Laden compound. Here life continues as normal. Beyond here though, 200 meters or so away is the Bin Laden house. Still holding in so many of the secrets of his life here in Abbottabad. OK, we're finished. Thank you very much. Thank you. Stan Grant, CNN, Abbottabad, Pakistan.
[Baldwin:] Stan, thank you. On this Memorial Day, it's a fitting day to remind all of you that more than 6,000 U.S. and coalition troops have died in both Afghanistan and Iraq, from all over the world, spanning all ages and on this Memorial Day you can honor them by learning who they were. Just go to cnn.comcasualties.