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UCLA researchers surmised about bin Laden's hideout (excerpt):

5/3/11

Two years before al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was discovered in a fortified compound not far from Pakistan's capital, a team of U.S. researchers and undergraduate students took up the search as part of an academic exercise. Their concept turned out to be generally accurate, although their target was off the mark.

Using satellite imagery and fundamental principles of geography, the group at the University of California, Los Angeles predicted that the mastermind of the 2001 terrorist attacks was probably hiding not in the rugged mountains, but inside a walled compound in a Pakistani city designed to shelter him and his bodyguards with little detection…

That's where the similarities end. In a 2009 paper published in the MIT International Review, the UCLA researchers used modeling that placed bin Laden in the northwest Pakistan town of Parachinar, about 300 miles west of where he was actually found. They figured it was a logical hideout because it was the largest city closest to bin Laden's last known location of Tora Bora, a giant cave complex in eastern Afghanistan…

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