Comments on: Bin Laden compound on Google Earth https://habitablezone.com/2011/05/02/bin-laden-compound-on-google-earth/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:41:18 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Eri https://habitablezone.com/2011/05/02/bin-laden-compound-on-google-earth/#comment-444 Eri Tue, 03 May 2011 04:30:39 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=560#comment-444 Could they have to do with burning the trash? They did that on the Compound grounds. Could they have to do with burning the trash? They did that on the Compound grounds.

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2011/05/02/bin-laden-compound-on-google-earth/#comment-409 TB Mon, 02 May 2011 18:37:55 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=560#comment-409 Incidentally, that big facility about a thousand yards north of bin Laden's hideout is Pakistan's military academy. Go figure. Incidentally, that big facility about a thousand yards north of bin Laden’s hideout is Pakistan’s military academy. Go figure.

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2011/05/02/bin-laden-compound-on-google-earth/#comment-402 TB Mon, 02 May 2011 18:04:42 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=560#comment-402 I'd have to move. Besides, it really wasn't that hard to locate once I had that first photo. There's only a limited area around there that has open fields like that. Locating stuff on Google Earth from ground photos and things is kind of a hobby of mine. I wonder what those round holes in the yard were. I’d have to move. Besides, it really wasn’t that hard to locate once I had that first photo. There’s only a limited area around there that has open fields like that. Locating stuff on Google Earth from ground photos and things is kind of a hobby of mine.

I wonder what those round holes in the yard were.

]]> By: Eri https://habitablezone.com/2011/05/02/bin-laden-compound-on-google-earth/#comment-401 Eri Mon, 02 May 2011 18:00:18 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=560#comment-401 You should be working for the CIA. Have you thought about applying? You should be working for the CIA. Have you thought about applying?

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2011/05/02/bin-laden-compound-on-google-earth/#comment-400 TB Mon, 02 May 2011 17:58:21 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=560#comment-400 Eh. I lose a lot of "scoops" because I have to double-check everything. The only photo I had to work with to begin with I found on a news story, and it was the 2011 aerial photo. It didn't take me long to find a pattern of fields and roads that looked similar, but the houses in the area were all different, and the compound itself looked different. Obviously, the Google photos were older. The photo was a DoD release, so I went there to find a better one, and you haven't known frustration until you try to find anything on a government site. Eventually, I located that presentation, and it included the older 2005 photo, which exactly matched the compound I'd found on Google Earth. I put a mark there, then did the search I had done earlier to see if anyone else had caught it, and of course by this time there was about half a dozen other flags on it. Ah, well, it was good practice. Eh. I lose a lot of “scoops” because I have to double-check everything. The only photo I had to work with to begin with I found on a news story, and it was the 2011 aerial photo. It didn’t take me long to find a pattern of fields and roads that looked similar, but the houses in the area were all different, and the compound itself looked different. Obviously, the Google photos were older.

The photo was a DoD release, so I went there to find a better one, and you haven’t known frustration until you try to find anything on a government site. Eventually, I located that presentation, and it included the older 2005 photo, which exactly matched the compound I’d found on Google Earth. I put a mark there, then did the search I had done earlier to see if anyone else had caught it, and of course by this time there was about half a dozen other flags on it.

Ah, well, it was good practice.

]]> By: Eri https://habitablezone.com/2011/05/02/bin-laden-compound-on-google-earth/#comment-394 Eri Mon, 02 May 2011 17:39:54 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=560#comment-394 They followed you in, silly. You led them right to it. All that covert training and still they got you. :-) They followed you in, silly. You led them right to it. All that covert training and still they got you. :-)

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2011/05/02/bin-laden-compound-on-google-earth/#comment-393 TB Mon, 02 May 2011 17:31:45 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=560#comment-393 Dang. When I started checking this out, mine was the only damn marker on it and all the others were scattered all over the town. Now they're all parked there. Dang. When I started checking this out, mine was the only damn marker on it and all the others were scattered all over the town. Now they’re all parked there.

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