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Satellite Images of the CIA’s Secret Bin Laden Training Facility

Posted By admin On October 10, 2012 @ 7:36 am In World News | Comments Disabled

John Hudson
The Atlantic ^[1]
Oct 10, 2012

One of the reasons U.S. Navy SEALs were able to so skillfully execute the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound last year was a CIA training facility in North Carolina that mirrored the architecture of bin Laden’s actual compound in Pakistan.

In 2011, during those crucial months that SEAL Team Six trained there, it was one of the most secretive facilities on U.S. soil. Now, for the first time, the facility has been revealed on Bing’s satellite map service ^[2]during a phase when it was under construction. Peekaboo!

But here’s where this gets really interesting. What happens when you view the same training facility at the same coordinates on Google Maps instead of Bing?

Poof! Vanished! It’s gone ^[3].

Full article with images here ^[1]

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[1] The Atlantic: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/10/satellite-images-capture-cias-secret-bin-laden-training-facility/57771/

[2] Bing’s satellite map service : http://binged.it/UDKhXv

[3] It’s gone: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Harvey+Point+Defense+Testing+CIA+training+facility+north+carolina&hl=en&ll=36.099598,-76.348659&spn=0.001292,0.001585&sll=38.891033,-76.992187&sspn=19.220113,37.661133&hq=Harvey+Point+Defense+Testing+CIA+training+facility+north+carolina&radius=15000&t=h&z=19

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