CIA locates bin Laden at Helmand hunting camp
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- Ghost Wars whole source · open book
By February 9 the team reported to the Islamabad station: They had found the hunting camp. It was an elaborately provisioned place far from any city but near an isolated airstrip big enough to handle C-130 cargo planes.
chapter: 24. “Let’s Just Blow the Thing Up”
- Ghost Wars whole source · open book
They hoped to solve the primary problem that had dogged their hunt for bin Laden since the winter of 1999 when they had stared day after day at satellite pictures of the Arab hunting camp in western Afghanistan, unable to develop enough confidence to fire missiles.
chapter: 29. “Daring Me to Kill Them”