Osama hunt: Can UCLA trump CIA?

[cosmicone]

Source: Times of India

WASHINGTON: In the hunt for Osama bin Laden, can researchers using scientific theories succeed where spooks and spy-craft has failed so far? Can
UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) pull off what the CIA and FBI haven't been able to?

Bet on us, invite a team of UCLA geographers, who say they have a good idea of where the world's no.1 terrorist
leader was at the end of 2001 — and perhaps where he has been in the years since. To cut to the chase, he is likely in one of three large compounds in Parachinar town in Pakistan's Kurram Agency.

In a new study published on Monday, the geographers report that simple facts, publicly available satellite imagery and fundamental principles of geography place bin Laden in one of these buildings.

"If he's still alive, he honestly could be sitting there right now," says Thomas Gillespie, the study's lead author and an associate professor of geography at UCLA. "It is still the safest tribal area and city in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of northwest Pakistan and one of the only tribal areas that the US has not bombed with its unmanned Predators."

Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Osama-hunt-Can-UCLA-trump-CIA/articleshow/4145722.cms

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Very interesting indeed!

[dkf]

1. Sounds like an episode of Numb3rs

[Richardo]

2. Now THAT would get me to contribute to the Alumni Association

[Joanie Baloney]

3. Oh yeah!

That would get even Trojans to contribute!!! LOL

JB <~~~ Fellow Bruin. :)

[Richardo]

5. BA Public Admin 1978

/geezer

[Joanie Baloney]

9. B.A. English, 1975

JB <~~~ Geezier

[KurtNYC]

12. did you have Prof Rubindorsky?

[Joanie Baloney]

13. Not that I recall..

But, it was the 70's! LOL

My mentor was Prof. Braunmuller

BTW - Here's the link to the official news release from UCLA:

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-geographers-want-u-s-military-75579.aspx

JB :)

[Richardo]

14. Dormie?

Hedrick Hall here :)

[Joanie Baloney]

15. That's a blast from the past

I was in Sproul Hall for all 4 years. 4 different roommates. What an experience!!

The boys in our dorm who lived in rooms facing your dorm used to yell out of their windows: "Hedrick Women!! We're coming for you!"

They were young. Ha!

JB

[The Second Stone]

10. The Poly "Sciences"

B.A. 1984

[bluevoter4life]

4. Of course...

If both parties (UCLA and the US Government) agree that he is in this area, why hasn't the military bombed it? Conspiracy????

[L0oniX]

6. The CIA's hunt for Osama is 100% bull shit. They need the boogie man...

so they can keep getting our money.

[underpants]

8. Notice anything missing from the FBI's Most Wanted?

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm

as seen in every post office near you. Amazing.

[underpants]

7. Doesn't this assume that he isn't in a compound or a major city?

there are plenty of places to hide when you and your friends have that kind of money

[MinM]

11. "Osama" hunt: Can UCLA trump DOA?

"If he's still alive, he honestly could be sitting there right now," says Thomas Gillespie...