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Article: Secrets of Bin Laden hideout; One area is set aside for chemical weapon training Satellite image shows the staggering scale of just one of terror mastermind's many remote bases ON THE BRINK.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 4, 2001
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Byline: MATTHEW HICKLEY
THIS startling satellite image shows just one of Osama Bin Laden's network of terrorist bases.
American intelligence analysts have already pinpointed 23 such sites in the Afghan mountains.
According to Washington officials, any one of them could contain the terrorist leader or his key henchmen.
The picture, released by an American defence think-tank, shows a complex of huts, trenches and bunkers scattered over a landscape of bleak hills and dried riverbeds.
Intelligence reports suggest the complex was home to at least three groups, including the Taliban, Pakistani extremists and Bin Laden's Al Qaeda ...