The one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death is May 2 and many analysts are discussing how his death has affected terrorism. CBS News Senior Correspondent John Miller was the last journalist to interview bin Laden. He sat down with NJ Today Managing Editor Mike Schneider to talk about the state of terrorism, his conversations with bin Laden and his allies and the NYPD Muslim surveillance controversy.

Miller said al-Qaeda terrorists have changed their tactics somewhat. “The old model was that al-Qaeda headquarters would order up an attack,” he said. “The new model is that they are pushing on the internet with the message saying never mind al-Qaeda headquarters. You all do whatever you’re capable of on your own. And when you deal in the lone wolf forum, it’s really hard to catch that.”

The new tactic demonstrates both weaknesses and strengths of the terrorist network, according to Miller. “Their weakness is they’re not able to launch a complex operation on the level of 9/11,” he said. “Their strength is they’ve mastered the message.”

Many are debating the power bin Laden still has on his followers and others. Miller said he believes it’s still strong, for now.

“I would say that he, for a time, certainly right now, is as strong a messenger in death as he was in life. And that is because now he’s a martyr, now he’s something to be avenged and I don’t think we can discount that,” Miller said. “On the flip side, Anwar Al-Awlaki, he is dead, but his videotapes, his messages still live on the internet, but i think we’ve seen a tapering off of his power.”

Miller said after talking to bin Laden and his bodyguard, he believed bin Laden wanted to be killed instead of captured in any type of raid and held by Americans. “I think he was surprised, probably shocked, that he lived as long as he did or that night was so long in coming,” Miller said.

Recently a surveillance program by the NYPD targeting the Muslim community in New Jersey has gotten a lot of criticism from Muslim-Americans and state officials. But Miller said, “I think it’s not an operational error as much as it’s a marketing mistake.” He said if the NYPD had told the public it needed to find out certain information before a crisis arose, it likely would’ve been received better.

He also said much of the information in the reports are benign. “Most of what they had in those reports you could find in Zagat’s,” Miller said.

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