Now the details of the planning, preparation and Mock Up Drill of the Killing of Osama Bin laden is available.
The training was carried out by The Navy SEALs in the CIA facility in North Carolina.
“Construction and Demolition of the Bin Laden Compound Mock-up, Harvey Point, NC. Terraserver.com/DigitalGlobe.com
The one month period of the top two photos indicate the facility was constructed quite quickly, perhaps after confirmation of the target required speedy construction for training.
The bottom left photo was taken two days before the raid on May 1, 2011, thus training had been completed. It appears trees and vegetation in the garden had been added to simulate the actual site, perhaps to avoid helicopter landing there.
The left courtyard of the mock-up does not match the actual site’s courtyard size and location. A model of the site was more accurate and was likely based on information gathered after that used for the mock-up.
With the careful attention to raid preparation No Easy Day describes, there could have been an expectation that the facility might appear on a public image site or details leaked by a construction worker, some mock-up features may have been constructed to differ from the target compound. Moreover, there may have been one or more mock-ups elsewhere as decoys and/or for training the multiple teams described in the book — the book’s author says a run-through practice took place at an unnamed base with a mock-up for VIP observation — and “out west.” No Easy Day excerpts below. If found send to cryptome[at]earthlink.net.
There is no certainty that the book’s author told the whole truth (he admits to being sketchy about aspects of the training and the raid), more likely some (maybe all) of the book is customary CIA/DoD/SEAL cloaking and disinformation about operations.
It is clear that Google Earth omitted the sensitive images — the site’s historical imagery jumps from March 17, 2010 to January 30, 2012 — as an instance of its cooperation with governments worldwide. That Microsoft’s Bing did not is to be commended. even if an oversight.
“The book “No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden,” written by a retired Navy SEAL who was part of the raid, provides information on the SEALs’ training experience. Using details in the book, Cryptome.org appears to have figured out the location of a secret CIA training facility. Tuesday, the website published Bing maps that reportedly show the area in North Carolina near Harvey Point Defense Testing Facility. The images appear to show a replica of bin Laden’s compound in Abbottobad, Pakistan. Google maps, however, show the same training site as just a clearing in a field.”‘news.yahoo.com
- The Harvey Point Defense Testing Activity facility, owned by the Department of Defense, is located on a peninsula in Perquimans County, North Carolina, along the Albemarle Sound, near the city of Hertford, NC. Established in World War II as an operating base for sea planes conducting anti-submarine surveillance of the Atlantic coast, it is currently used by the CIA’s National Clandestine Service for personnel training in explosives, paramilitary combat, and other clandestine warfare techniques. A close-by Naval facility in Weeksville, NC served as a blimp base during and after WWII.
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