05.02.11
Views to die for
“Sods, this would happen just before Virgin Media was set to lay cable in the street” — anonymous commenter
Finding the bin Laden compound through Google Maps provided a momentary diversion.
If you want to try finding it from scratch — click here.
Then click on the “did you mean?” link. (My spelling mistake.)
Zoom until you start seeing street, road and facility names. Skew the map northwest.
The compound is by itself in the fields south of the Kakul Road.
That puts it about five hundred yards almost due south the Bilal Town map marker and slightly northwest of two larger white buildings on a small generally east-west through road it shares with them.
Colin Powell, in yet another feeble attempt to redeem himself, on CNN to assert the Pakistanis must have known. Well, duh.
“You are certain to get the worst of the bargain when you exchange ideas with the wrong person,” said Powell at some motivational seminar after his rep was trashed.