02-05-2011, 12:08 PM
From http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/bin-...i-compound
And quoting Jan:
I would say it is more like a special prison. And ISI and CIA put Osama there in 2005. Where was he before that time, if I may ask?
Quote:The al-Qaida chief was living in a house in the town of Abbottabad that a U.S. official said was "custom built to hide someone of significance." Abbottabad is around 60 miles from the capital Islamabad, far from the remote mountain caves along the Pakistan-Afghanistan tribal border where most intelligence assessments had put bin Laden in recent years.
The house was close to the Kakul Military Academy, an army-run institution where top officers train and one of several military institutions in the town.
An American administration official said the compound was built in 2005 at the end of a narrow dirt road with "extraordinary" security measures. He said it had 12 to 18-feet walls topped with barbed wire with two security gates and no telephone or Internet service connected to it.
A Pakistan intelligence official said the property where bin Laden was staying was 3,000 square feet.
And quoting Jan:
Quote:Btw if it was Osama in that villa, presumably with easy access to a dialysis machine, then both the ISI and CIA will have known precisely where he was. And given there were allegedly no phone lines in and out of the villa, it's not much of a Dr Evil Master Terrorist Shack....
I would say it is more like a special prison. And ISI and CIA put Osama there in 2005. Where was he before that time, if I may ask?
The most relevant literature regarding what happened since September 11, 2001 is George Orwell's "1984".