Osama Bin Laden AK-47 on display at ultra-secret CIA museum
Osama bin Laden’s AK-47 rifle, found next to his body after he was killed in a daring midnight raid by US Navy SEALs in Pakistan, is on display at an ultra-secret CIA museum.
The AK-47 is a recent addition to a collection housed at a museum inside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. The museum displays the gadgets, artifacts and trophies of 70 years of spycraft, from World War II through to the War on Terror.
The museum is closed to the public and is only visited by employees and invited guests.
The Russian-made assault rifle, identified on a simple brass plaque as “Osama bin Laden’s AK-47,” shares a glass case with an al-Qaida training manual found in Afghanistan soon after 9/11.
“This is the rifle that was recovered from the third floor of the Abbottabad compound by the assault team,” curator Toni Hiley was quoted by NBC News as saying.
“Because of its proximity to (bin Laden) there on the third floor in the compound, our analyst determined it to be his. It’s a Russian AK with counterfeit Chinese markings,” he said.
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