Where?s Bin Laden? New theory, Google Earth offer clues

[David Baxter PhD]

Where?s Bin Laden? New theory, Google Earth offer clues
by Sam Diaz, ZDNet
February 20, 2009

A couple of geography professors at UCLA have done some legwork that just might help the U.S. get closer to capturing Osama Bin Laden.

The professors, John A. Agnew and Thomas W. Gillespie, today published a theory on the MIT International Review site (PDF) that identifies three buildings that could possibly be housing the FBI?s most wanted terrorist. The team used satellite imagery (similar to that used by Google) and ?biogeographic theories associated with the distribution of life and extinction? to determine where Bin Laden is most likely to be hiding.

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Unless he has lost his wits , he certainly won't be where ever he was recently ,anymore , now this has been made public .

 

[David Baxter PhD]

He may not have internet access from the cave...

 

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This I would like to believe , but his network of buddies will have got the message through by now. if it was otherwise he would have been found by now, he seems to be a step ahead by the fact he has managed to evade capture until now

 

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You're probably right. But I think what's interesting about the article is the indicator of a new use of the Google tool.

 

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Certainly , I agree ....... got a bit misled by my logic , and missed the real point of your post , doh !