Bin Laden's compound, seen from space (photos)
DigitalGlobe and GeoEye, two companies competing to provide customers with satellite imagery, offer views of the Pakistani compound where Osama bin Laden was killed.
Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound
The location of Osama bin Laden's compound was an extraordinarily tightly kept secret--until Sunday night, when U.S. forces attacked it and killed him.
Now satellite photos show the compound just northeast of the center of Abbottabad, Pakistan. In this case, a DigitalGlobe image shows the site, a tilted triangle with its left corner chopped off, including the dark shadows from the tall walls surrounding the compound.
Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound
This DigitalGlobe image shows the initial compound from 2005 outlined in yellow and newer regions outlined in blue.
Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound
GeoEye supplied these two photos of the bin Laden compound. At top is a shot from 2005; at bottom from today.
Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound
A DigitalGlobe close-up from 2005 shows the compound in earlier times.
Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound
The once-revolutionary, now-prosaic Google Maps acquired a new dimension after bin Laden's death as a way to view to a historically significant moment on another part of the globe. Bin Laden's compound is marked on the right edge of the image.
Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound
The overall area near Abbottobad, Pakistan, is striped with agricultural fields.
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