IF THE THEORIES HELD FOR ENDANGERED SPECIES, PERHAPS THEY WOULD WORK FOR A CRIMINAL MASTERMIND ON THE LAM.

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They then created distance-decay probability maps over satellite imagery and determined that there was an 86.6 percent chance that bin Laden resided in one of Pakistan's seven Federally Administered Tribal Areas. Of these, Kurram, in which the class identified 26 "city islands," was closest to Tora Bora, and its largest city is Parachinar. From a political standpoint, and just plain common sense, the city struck Gillespie as a good fit for the world's most wanted terrorist. Parachinar had housed mujahideen during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, and, more generally, the largely autonomous FATAs have longsheltered militant Islamists