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Below, South Quonset Looking North

Source: Terraserver.com

Below, South Quonset Looking South

Below, North Quonset Looking North

Source: Terraserver.com

Below, North Quonset Looking South

30 June 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/washington/30tribal.html Amid U.S. Policy Disputes, Qaeda Grows in Pakistan By MARK MAZZETTI and DAVID ROHDE June 30, 2008 By late 2005, many inside the C.I.A. headquarters in Virginia had reached the conclusion that their hunt for Mr. bin Laden had made little progress since Tora Bora. Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., who at the time ran the C.I.A.’s clandestine operations branch, decided in late 2005 to make a series of swift changes to the agency’s counterterrorism operations. But Mr. Rodriguez believed that the Qaeda hunt had lost its focus on Mr. bin Laden and the militant threat in Pakistan. So he appointed a new head of the Counterterrorist Center, who has not been publicly identified, and sent dozens more C.I.A. operatives to Pakistan. The new push was called Operation Cannonball, and Mr. Rodriguez demanded urgency, but the response had a makeshift air. There was nowhere to house an expanding headquarters staff, so giant Quonset huts were erected outside the cafeteria on the C.I.A.’s leafy Virginia campus to house a new team assigned to the bin Laden mission. In Pakistan, the new operation was staffed not only with C.I.A. operatives drawn from around the world, but also with recent graduates of “the Farm,” the agency’s training center at Camp Peary in Virginia.

CIA Cannonball Quonset Huts Eyeball

September 2005. No Quonset structures. http://seamless.usgs.gov

C. 2005. No Quonset structures. http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=qgrsn98k422t&style=o&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=6531580&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

August 2006. http://seamless.usgs.gov

December 2006. South Quonset appears completed, the North about half-constructed. http://seamless.usgs.gov

C. 2006. South Quonset appears completed, the North under construction. North at bottom. http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=qgrtkp8k43b2&style=o&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=22824417&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

Added 6 November 2008 http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=qgrtq58k439j&style=b&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=31366739&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

C. 2007. Both Quonsets appear completed, except the North has a bit of exterior scaffolding still in place. http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=qgrtc18k4381&style=o&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=22824476&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

Somewhat different and later view with the North scaffolding removed. http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=qgrt168k45v2&style=o&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=22825193&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1