• Cryptome.org finds CIA's Abbottabad compound training ground, as mentioned in Mark Owen's book "No E
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[QUOTE]In the best-selling book “No Easy Day,” a retired Navy SEAL who was on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden revealed that training for the assault on the al-Qaida leader’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, took place in North Carolina. Taking that information, the creators of the whistleblowing site Cryptome.org, apparently scoured satellite imagery of CIA facilities in North Carolina. After putting in the coordinates in Google Maps for the Harvey Point Defense Testing facility, purportedly a CIA training ground, only a clearing in a field was seen. On Bing Maps, however, Cryptome spotters, spied what looks like an uncompleted mockup of the bin Laden compound in Abbottabad. Cryptome published its findings on its website on Tuesday. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has said revelations in the book, written under the pseudonym Mark Owen, could put future operations in jeopardy and suggested that the writer should be punished for writing the best-seller. Although the Pentagon has said it had dismantled the facility, Cryptome found the imagery on a dated satellite pictures. Satellite imagery is not updated that often, sometimes not for years. Cryptome is a website that uses publicly available material to reveal what would otherwise be secret. The site is run by John Young, a New-York based architect and political activist who was spilling confidential information even before WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange released secret government documents, according to a book review and profile of Young published on the website of Forbes magazine.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/09/14323825-satellite-images-appear-to-reveal-cias-secret-bin-laden-training-ground?lite"]NBC[/URL] The satellite photo of the mock-up. [IMG]http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121009-harvey-point-defense-testing.photoblog600.jpg[/IMG] The satellite photo of Bin Laden's house in Abbottabad for comparison. [IMG]http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121009-bin-laden-compound-pakistan-3p.photoblog600.jpg[/IMG]
Wow, that's pretty cool. They're look really similiar, damn.
[QUOTE=t h e;37978515]Wow, that's pretty cool. They're look really similiar, damn.[/QUOTE] Well I would hope so. It wouldn't be very good to dismount from the helicopter only to realise there's walls where they shouldn't be, and windows where the doors were. Granted, that's pretty much what they dealt with inside anyway, seeing is a few doorways were bricked off (assuming they even knew what the interior was like in the first place)
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