Bush: No sense of jubilation about bin Laden's death

Former President George W. Bush says he experienced no pleasure when he heard about the death of Osama bin Laden, the al Qaeda leader responsible for orchestrating the deadly terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Schnall interviewed the former president as part of a documentary airing on National Geographic on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The interview covers a broad range of topics tied to Bush's response to the attacks -- a response that remains a source of deep political division both within the United States and overseas.

Bush told Schnall that initially he thought a small plane had hit one of the towers at New York's World Trade Center.

Among other things, Bush ordered the military to shoot down commercial planes that failed to respond to a Federal Aviation Administration demand to land as quickly as possible.

For a time, the president was unsure if that order was responsible for the crash of United Airlines flight 93 near Shanksville, Pennsylvania....