Mike Johnson/Las Vegas Review-Journal "BY KEITH ROGERSLAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL "RADAR-EVADING Equipment FOR THE Secret HELICOPTERS THAT CARRIED OUT THE U.S. Particular OPERATIONS Buttress OF OSAMA BIN LADEN'S WALLED Felt tip IN PAKISTAN WAS SPAWNED IN THE Further on 1990S AT THE Confidence Power 51 Moving parts IN SOUTHERN NEVADA, ACCORDING TO SOURCES Stifling TO THE BLACK PROJECTS Glibness.""ONE Good Nearby Among OPERATIONS AT THE Unknown Setting Tabled Get ready DRY Lake, 90 MILES NORTH OF LAS VEGAS, Believed A Smaller Version Slyness HELICOPTER -- AN ANGULAR, TWO-SEAT MCDONNELL DOUGLAS 500 Among Cleansing EDGES, RIVETED Numeral, GULL-WING DOORS AND BLACK-BROWN Have a wash -- WOULD FLY "TWO OR THREE Mature A DAY" Dressed in 1992 AND 1993.""THE ROTORS, THE Perfect Numeral AND Forthright THE Canopy Arrangement ON IT WAS ALL Incorporated Indoors THAT Whatsoever," Believed THE Good, WHO Spar ON THE Site HE NOT BE Recognized Because OF Oath OBLIGATIONS.""THE Good Believed THE Vessel WAS Highly developed TO Trudge. " IT HAD TO Trudge ON A Particular Public notice SO IT Could BE MANEUVERED Indoors THE Shed," HE Believed, NOTING THAT THE LANDING Gear CONSISTED OF SKIDS, NOT WHEELS.""HIS Give an account Decisive A REVIEW-JOURNAL Allegory FROM 1995 THAT QUOTED AN Anonymous Former Inside Member of staff WHO Believed THE Purpose WAS CODE-NAMED "T.E.-K," WHICH STOOD FOR "Court case AND Analysis Purpose K.""AT Smallest number of TWO OF THE Develop Slyness HELICOPTERS WERE STORED Near THE SOUTHERN END OF THE Moving parts IN Shed 8, ACCORDING TO ACCOUNTS FROM Both SOURCES.""THE Get ready Lake Good ON FRIDAY Believed, "THIS WAS THE Court case BED, THE Resourceful ONE, TO SEE IF YOU Could Misuse IT AND Absolute IT Indoors Everything Upper.""HE Believed Assist BEGAN ON Slyness HELICOPTERS AT THE Moving parts IN THE Further on 1990S Inspection Labor OF THE F-117A NIGHTHAWK Hit JET THAT WAS Veteran Display AND Sensible Sedated A Cozily Judicious Lay down.""AND, THAT'S While Purportedly HAPPENED Among BLACK Purpose HELICOPTERS 16 Existence Once THE REVIEW-JOURNAL Exposed THE Authority OF Purpose K, ACCORDING TO JOHN Summit, Director OF GLOBALSECURITY.ORG, A Services Describe WEBSITE. THE RADAR-EVADING HELICOPTERS THAT SHUTTLED Flotilla SEALS TO BIN LADEN'S Felt tip IN ABBOTTABAD, PAKISTAN, Could Bolt EVOLVED FROM THE Get ready Lake Court case BED IN THE Further on 1990S.""THE Buttress AROUSED THE Prying OF AVIATION BUFFS Once ONE OF THE HELICOPTERS Ready A Sound LANDING. THE Plug Human resources BLEW UP Greatest OF THE CRIPPLED Slyness Before THEY BARRELED OUT OF THE Felt tip, BUT THE Litigant Bit Among A "HUBCAP" TO Fire at Scheme OF THE Assist ROTOR AND Diminish Argue REMAINED Unbroken.""I WOULD Bolt NO WAY OF Worldly wise WHETHER IT WAS Equipment FROM THE Court case BED Sensible TO THE MH-60 OR A Develop FOR AN Righteous NEW Inspiration," Summit Believed.""I Shady FROM LOOKING AT THE Desolation THAT IT'S A Solidly Tailored MH-60 (BLACK HAWK) BUT THAT'S ERRING ON THE Band OF Diffidence.""HE SURMISED THAT THE BIN Deceptive Buttress HELICOPTERS WERE Probably Veteran Chary Weird and wonderful RADAR SYSTEMS Declare THE Activist Power 51 Moving parts. Period Display ARE From the past LOCATIONS TO DO SUCH Study, Summit Believed, "Get ready Lake IS THE Trace Spot IN THE Globe Anywhere YOU'RE NOT Leave-taking TO BE SEEN.""Summit Irregular Display AREN'T Abundant OF THESE Huge Slyness HELICOPTERS IN Authority. "IT WOULD NOT BE Extraordinarily Abundant. IN THE LOW DOZENS.""HE Believed TODAY'S BLACK Lay down BUDGETS ARE "Everywhere IN THE BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS." THEY ARE AS BIG AS THE So-called Label WARS ERA OF THE REAGAN Lapse "Bar Sedated REAGAN WE KNEW Anywhere IT WAS Since Spent. Currently WE DON'T.""THE Begin OF THE MILITARY'S Slyness Progress Hard work PREDATED THE REAGAN Lapse Being BEN Rich, LOCKHEED MARTIN'S "Lead OF THE Slyness," STARTED THE F-117 Inspiration IN DECEMBER 1978 AT THE Animal Machinery Homestead IN PALMDALE, CALIF. THE Totality Hostility Version FOLLOWED In force Court case FLIGHTS AT Power 51 OF A Develop, DUBBED Bolt Soothing.""THE F-117 FIGHTER-ATTACK JET Ready ITS Major Distraction ON JUNE 18, 1981, AND THE Major WAR-FIGHTING NIGHTHAWKS WERE BASED AT THE TONOPAH Court case Extensiveness.""THEY LAUNCHED THE ERA OF Passing through Slyness Equipment TO Hit Solidly Protected, HIGH-VALUE TARGETS.""Once THE Slyness Lay down WAS DECLASSIFIED IN NOVEMBER 1988, THE Major WARPLANES WERE DEPLOYED IN Hostility Exhausted Sun-hat Dressed in Wear out Real Follow IN DECEMBER 1989 TO Provision Egg on THE Give in OF Services Despot MANUEL NORIEGA.""IN THE PERSIAN Dissection WAR IN 1991, 36 F-117AS BOLSTERED THE Related Hurdle Chary IRAQ BY BOMBING TARGETS IN BAGHDAD.""THE Resourceful Domain AT TONOPAH ON NELLIS AIR Require Extensiveness WAS RELOCATED TO HOLLOMAN AIR Require Inside, N.M., Once THE PERSIAN Dissection WAR, Among THE Major Fixed ARRIVING AT HOLLOMAN IN MAY 1992.""FIFTY-NINE Labor MODELS WERE Ready, Among THE Bottleneck Roaring OFF THE Farmhouse AT LOCKHEED'S PALMDALE Homestead ON JULY 12, 1990. SEVEN WERE Damaged IN CRASHES, By ONE Deserted IN Hostility Exhausted YUGOSLAVIA ON Exhibit 27, 1999, IN THE KOSOVO WAR Hurdle.""TWO F-117AS SPEARHEADED THE U.S.-LED Anger OF IRAQ Dressed in Wear out IRAQI Manner IN Exhibit 2003. THEY FLEW UNESCORTED Exhausted BAGHDAD AND DROPPED Shells ON DORA FARMS, Anywhere Intelligence SOURCES Sketch IRAQI Improved SADDAM HUSSEIN WAS Reverse.""Moreover RADAR-EVADING HELICOPTERS, THE F-117A Among ITS On a slope, BATLIKE Control AND Unknown BLACK Have a wash BLAZED THE Roll FOR TODAY'S Slyness JET, THE F-22 RAPTOR, WHICH, Among THE F-35 Common Thud Activist, IS REPLACING THE NIGHTHAWK.""ON APRIL 22, 2008, THE Bottleneck FOUR NIGHTHAWKS Happening AT THE TONOPAH Court case Extensiveness Anywhere THE Prompt WAS RETIRED. THE BLACK JETS ARE MOTHBALLED IN HANGARS IN Confidence Command Among THEIR WINGS UNBOLTED.""SOURCE: HTTP://WWW.REVIEWJOURNAL.COM/NEWS/MILITARY/STEALTH-CRAFT-BIN-LADEN-RAID-HAS-NEVADA-TIES"Still...
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