WASHINGTON, May 17 (BSS/AFP) - US intelligence officials have unveiled a once top secret scale model of Osama bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan, a precise replica used to plan the raid that killed the Al-Qaeda chief a year ago.
The table-top model made its public debut Wednesday in the halls of the Pentagon, where soldiers and office workers stopped in the corridor and gazed in fascination at the elaborate miniature of Bin Laden's compound.
With farm fields carved out of clay and the building's walls made of styrofoam, the model was built in six weeks by a special team at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA).
The NGA, which provides satellite imagery to the...
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