Osama bin Laden's location predicted with technique used to track endangered species

Geography Professor Thomas Gillespie has employed a technique typically used for tracking endangered species in order to pinpoint the most likely location of Osama bin Laden. [via]

In a paper (pdf) published in the MIT International Review Gillespie describes how he used biogeographic data including bin Laden's last known location, cultural background, security needs, declining health, limited mobility and height to create a mathematical model that he claims will show where the terror mastermind is hiding.

More specifically, he found a 90 percent chance that bin Laden is in Kurram province in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas, most likely in the town of Parachinar which gave shelter to a larger number of Mujahedin during the 1980s.