{"id":9888,"date":"2011-05-02T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/abbottabad-compound-proves-abbotta-good-for-reclusive-celebs\/"},"modified":"2011-05-02T13:32:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T13:32:00","slug":"abbottabad-compound-proves-abbotta-good-for-reclusive-celebs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/abbottabad-compound-proves-abbotta-good-for-reclusive-celebs\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbottabad Compound Proves &#8216;Abbotta-good&#8217; for Reclusive Celebs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Google Map image of Osama bin Laden&#39;s hideout<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nForget private islands in the Pacific or the Betty Ford Center, a compound in remote Abbottabad, Pakistan has proved to be the ideal travel destination for reclusive celebs looking to avoid the limelight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nConveniently located 35 miles north of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad (not making a pun on that name), it took the world&#39;s most powerful military years to track down the world&#39;s most wanted man to a compound here. So imagine how long it would&#39;ve taken measly photographers from Us Weekly!\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe <em>New York Times<\/em> described <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/02\/world\/asia\/02reconstruct-capture-osama-bin-laden.html?hp\">the Abbottabad property<\/a> as &quot;a mansion on the outskirts of the town&rsquo;s center, set on an imposing hilltop and ringed by 12-foot-high concrete walls topped with barbed wire.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt also estimated the compound&#39;s value at $1 million, quite a steep price for that part of the world&mdash;and clearly more luxurious than bunking in a damp cave.<br \/>\nThe compound also has ample space to land a private helicopter or two (or three if your second one breaks).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#39;s also about 800 yards from the Pakistan Military Academy, meaning guests with deep pockets can likely be afforded ample protections.<br \/>\nAnd while Abbottabad is not on the water, it&#39;s close enough that if you die while on vacation there, a sea burial is a practical option.<br \/>\nSome caveats, to maximize your privacy include:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>don&#39;t use a courier service<\/li>\n<li>empty your trash rather than burning it, so you don&#39;t arouse suspicioun<\/li>\n<li>connect phone and Internet service, so their absence doesn&#39;t seem conspicious<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Google Map image of Osama bin Laden&#39;s hideout &nbsp; Forget private islands in the Pacific or the Betty Ford Center, a compound in remote Abbottabad, Pakistan has proved to be the ideal travel destination for reclusive celebs looking to avoid the limelight. &nbsp; Conveniently located 35 miles north of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}