Satellite Images of Training Ground for OBL Raid

[TheCommandTent]

A civilian satellite captured what appear to be clear, overhead images of the North Carolina mock-up of Osama bin Laden's compound used by SEAL Team Six to train for the top secret mission to take out the al Qaeda leader.

The images, posted on several satellite imaging websites as well on the map function for the search engine Bing, show what looks like a brand new, mostly open-air building complex in a rural town in North Carolina that is strikingly similar to the layout of Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

One satellite imaging website, TerraServer, provides DigitalGlobe images from different dates, apparently showing that the building was constructed sometime after Jan. 14, 2011, as reported at the anti-secrecy website Cryptome.org Tuesday. While one image reportedly taken from Feb. 15 shows several vehicles at the complex as well as what appears to be a construction crane, another from just two months later, April 30, shows no vehicles at all and the complex apparently abandoned.

http://news.yahoo.com/satellite-images-appear-show-us-bin-laden-op-143934665--abc-news-topstories.html


I am not sure of the point of the article, it almost makes it seem like this is some how a bad thing.  How else do you expect them to train? 

It sounds/looks like a very elaborate and accurate representation of OBL's compound.  Glad nobody spotted and reported this prior to the raid or it could have tipped our hand had someone connect the dots.