Bin Laden's and Saddam's Hideouts

BIN LADEN'S & SADDAM'S HIDEOUTS: THE MANSION Vs. THE RATHOLE Osama bin Laden's house, described by the US government as a $1m mansion, is in Saddam Hussein was captured after a tip-off led fact worth no more than $250,000 say property professionals in Abbottabad, the town American troops to a small, underground hole where he was killed. The "extraordinarily unique" compound housing the al- concealed next to farm buildings near (10 miles Quaeda terrorist leader was more like a fortress than a residential dwelling. south) the ex leader's hometown of Tikrit. The farm consisted of "wo very SADDAM HUSSEIN OSAMA small rooms in an adobe hu". one Such is the emphasis on privacy that even the third-floor terrace is was a bedroom that was cluttered with clothes, including new T-shirts and socks and a 'very rudimentary" kitchen, BIN LADEN Few opaque windows faced the outside of the compound. shielded by a seven-foot wall. The property also had no telephone or internet services associated with it. The hole was camouflaged with bricks and dirt and covered with polystyrene and a carpet. The only access was through two security gates Trash burning location Surrounded by 12 to 18t outer walls topped by barbed wire The three-story structure shows unpainted walls streaked with black mold that commonly grows on bare The underground chamber was six-to-eight feet (1.8 metres 2.4 metres) deep, with enough space for a person to lie down, and an air vent and concrete in Pakistani summers Internal walls that sectioned off different parts of the compound extractor 1050: Tip-off received, two targets identified and given codenames 1800: 600 Iroops move to- wards Wolverine 1' and "Wolverine 2' 2000: Targets searched, Saddam Hussein not found 2030: Hole found, Saddam Hussein captured with no resistance The compound sits on a large plot of land in an area that was relatively secluded when it was built. It is roughly eight times larger than nearby homes. Aside from its size (there were 23 children and 9 women in the house), it doesn't stand out from the others in the neighborhood, where conservative residents are guard their privacy fiercely. On 13 December 2003, On May 2, 2011 Bin Laden was shot and killed by US Navy Seals and CIA operatives in a covert operation ordered by U.S. President Barack Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. forces at a farmhouse in ad-Dawr near Tikrit in Operation Red CAPTURED Dawn. Obama. CAPTURED 大大 大 KKRKKKI 60 大 太大 大 KAKRA It took a team of It took a team of K 大 KK 大大 40 KKKKKKKKKK 大 太大 NAVY Seal soldiers soldiers to capture him to capture him Along with the former Iraqi dictator, troops discovered $750,000 cash in $100 bills He had $740 and two phone $ numbers sewn into his clothing X1 X1 X2 AK-47 rifle Makarov pistol AK-47 rifle more than 100 digital media items, including disks, DVDS and thumb drives A stash of X5 computers X10 hard drives pornography Documents Documents SOURCE S http://www.guardian.co.uk/ http://gulfnews.com/ hitp://www.indianagazette.com/ htp://www.huffingtonpost.com http://www.dawn.com/ http://abcnews.go.com http://www.foxnews.com Bin Laden photo by File: Hamid Mir interviewing Osama Bin Laden.jpg [CC-BY-SA 3.0] FIX %24 BIN LADEN'S & SADDAM'S HIDEOUTS: THE MANSION Vs. THE RATHOLE Osama bin Laden's house, described by the US government as a $1m mansion, is in Saddam Hussein was captured after a tip-off led fact worth no more than $250,000 say property professionals in Abbottabad, the town American troops to a small, underground hole where he was killed. The "extraordinarily unique" compound housing the al- concealed next to farm buildings near (10 miles Quaeda terrorist leader was more like a fortress than a residential dwelling. south) the ex leader's hometown of Tikrit. The farm consisted of "wo very SADDAM HUSSEIN OSAMA small rooms in an adobe hu". one Such is the emphasis on privacy that even the third-floor terrace is was a bedroom that was cluttered with clothes, including new T-shirts and socks and a 'very rudimentary" kitchen, BIN LADEN Few opaque windows faced the outside of the compound. shielded by a seven-foot wall. The property also had no telephone or internet services associated with it. The hole was camouflaged with bricks and dirt and covered with polystyrene and a carpet. The only access was through two security gates Trash burning location Surrounded by 12 to 18t outer walls topped by barbed wire The three-story structure shows unpainted walls streaked with black mold that commonly grows on bare The underground chamber was six-to-eight feet (1.8 metres 2.4 metres) deep, with enough space for a person to lie down, and an air vent and concrete in Pakistani summers Internal walls that sectioned off different parts of the compound extractor 1050: Tip-off received, two targets identified and given codenames 1800: 600 Iroops move to- wards Wolverine 1' and "Wolverine 2' 2000: Targets searched, Saddam Hussein not found 2030: Hole found, Saddam Hussein captured with no resistance The compound sits on a large plot of land in an area that was relatively secluded when it was built. It is roughly eight times larger than nearby homes. Aside from its size (there were 23 children and 9 women in the house), it doesn't stand out from the others in the neighborhood, where conservative residents are guard their privacy fiercely. On 13 December 2003, On May 2, 2011 Bin Laden was shot and killed by US Navy Seals and CIA operatives in a covert operation ordered by U.S. President Barack Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. forces at a farmhouse in ad-Dawr near Tikrit in Operation Red CAPTURED Dawn. Obama. CAPTURED 大大 大 KKRKKKI 60 大 太大 大 KAKRA It took a team of It took a team of K 大 KK 大大 40 KKKKKKKKKK 大 太大 NAVY Seal soldiers soldiers to capture him to capture him Along with the former Iraqi dictator, troops discovered $750,000 cash in $100 bills He had $740 and two phone $ numbers sewn into his clothing X1 X1 X2 AK-47 rifle Makarov pistol AK-47 rifle more than 100 digital media items, including disks, DVDS and thumb drives A stash of X5 computers X10 hard drives pornography Documents Documents SOURCE S http://www.guardian.co.uk/ http://gulfnews.com/ hitp://www.indianagazette.com/ htp://www.huffingtonpost.com http://www.dawn.com/ http://abcnews.go.com http://www.foxnews.com Bin Laden photo by File: Hamid Mir interviewing Osama Bin Laden.jpg [CC-BY-SA 3.0] FIX %24