Federal agents built mock bunker to practice for rescue, snuck camera inside real bunker

[Liberal_in_LA]

Details emerge of mock bunker in Alabama hostage's rescue

As residents of Midland City, Ala., Tuesday celebrated the freeing of a 5-year-old Alabama boy held hostage for nearly a week, details emerged about the daring operation that freed him.

A law enforcement source close to the investigation confirmed to NBC News on Tuesday that federal agents practiced their intricate rescue plans not far from where the kidnapper, 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes, held the little boy.

Before storming the underground shelter where Dykes held the boy on Monday, the agents built a mock bunker nearby where they prepared over the prior six days, according to a law enforcement official close to the investigation.

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Law enforcement officials have said they even managed to sneak a camera into the roughly 8 feet by 6 feet bunker where Dykes holed up, but have declined to say how.

“It’s a technique we may want to use again, so we’re not being specific,” an official told NBC News.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/05/16855497-details-emerge-of-mock-bunker-in-alabama-hostages-rescue?lite

[longship]

1. Apparently, beautifully orchestrated.

President Obama even called to congratulate on a job well done. I agree.

Another DUer speculated earlier that they must have set up a practice model of the compound and drilled for days to pull this off. Well, that DUer knew his or her shit because that's precisely what they did to save that boy.

Another example of how awesome DU can be!!!

[LiberalFighter]

2. It was good that they didn't reveal how they snuck a camera in but I would had gone further

and not even indicated that it was done.

[lindysalsagal]

3. I wondered about that, because the news reports made it sound as if

they were able to literally watch the little boy and verify his safety. Cameras are so small these days, that they could disguise it as just about anything, or hide it in that air tube, or even in a shoe.

[Tien1985]

4. The little boy

asked for a hot wheels to play--it could have been that. Easy enough to stick a camera in behind a dark windshield. The law of toys says the thing was left out in the middle of the room 90% of the time it was there.