Geography professor 'finds' Osama Bin Laden
An American geography professor claims he has used knowledge of how species spread to locate Osama Bin Laden.
Using biogeographic theories associated with the distribution of life (whatever that means) the boffin says he has tracked Bin Laden to Parachinar, a town 12 miles from the Pakistan border.
Thomas Gillespie from the University of California and his team came to this conclusion by considering Bin Laden's physical characteristics, medical needs (dialysis machine), security requirement and last known position.
This data was then crossed with satellite-aided geographic analysis to produce the suggested location, which is being passed on to US army chiefs.
Gillespie added that Bin Laden is unlikely to be in a cave because of his height, security preferences and need for electricity, yeah without that how would he charge his video camera and play on his Nintendo Wii.
A spokesperson for the research team said: "We believe that our work involves the first scientific approach to establishing his current location.
"The methods are repeatable and can be updated with new information obtained from the US intelligence community."
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