Thursday, May 17, 2012

Pentagon unveils model of bin Laden compound

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency via AP

This image released by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency shows a scale model of the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where Osama bin Laden was killed. The model was built by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and used by military and intelligence leaders to plan the raid. The once-classified model is an exact 1 inch to 7 feet and each object in the model existed at one time at the original compound.

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency via AP

Farooq Naeem / AFP - Getty Images

U.S. forces found and killed the al-Qaida leader in the affluent Pakistani town of Abbottabad, where he had been living in a large compound.

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