Bing Maps Show The CIA’s Secret Bin Laden Training Facility In North Carolina
The construction of the model compound as of February 15, 2011
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In No Easy Day, Navy Seal Mark Bissonnette’s account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Bissonnette mentions that Seal Team 6 trained on a replica compound at a secret site in North Carolina.
The website Cryptome has published Bing Maps images of Harvey Point Defense Testing in North Carolina, a CIA training facility, that show what appears to be a pretty accurate model of bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound in Pakistan.
Here is a Google Maps image of bin Laden’s compound:
 Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad as of May 11, 2011 |
It’s interesting to view the copy compound in the context of its placement near the Harvey Point Defense Testing Center on the North Carolina coast.
 Harvey Point, North Carolina |
As the Atlantic Wire points out, the same Harvey Point coordinates in Google Earth show that the mock-Abbottabad compound was destroyed as of January 30, 2012—just like bin Laden’s actual compound.
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