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:

Google Maps/Cryptome 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.

Bing Maps/Atlantic Wire 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.

 

CIA fake vaccine program will have wide-ranging effects on health of Pakistani children

Remember how the CIA used a phony vaccination campaign in order to collect DNA samples from Osama Bin Laden’s family? (If this is news to you, there are lots of places to get the backstory. Suffice to say, it’s morally grotesque. A doctor working with the CIA went around the region near the Bin Laden compound and gave inadequate doses of the vaccine, leaving behind kids whose parents thought they were protected from Hepatitis B, but who were, in fact, not.) This month, Taliban military leaders banned a U.S.-funded polio vaccination campaign from operating in the regions of Pakistan that they control. Polio is endemic in Pakistan. (Via Emily Willingham)