May 12th, 2011
Zoom latimes: Osama bin Laden’s journal reveals that the Al Qaeda leader hoped to kill as many Americans as possible, with L.A. on his list: Michael Downing, commanding officer of the Los Angeles Police Department’s counter-terrorism and special operations bureau, said the intelligence cache confirms what authorities have long known: “Los Angeles was on the target list for Al Qaeda.” Andrew Blankstein and Robert J. Lopez have more: Downing said the death of Bin Laden does not mean that the threat in Los Angeles has diminished. “Once you’re on the list,” he said, “you don’t leave the list.” Photo credit: Associated Press

latimes:

Osama bin Laden’s journal reveals that the Al Qaeda leader hoped to kill as many Americans as possible, with L.A. on his list:

Michael Downing, commanding officer of the Los Angeles Police Department’s counter-terrorism and special operations bureau, said the intelligence cache confirms what authorities have long known: “Los Angeles was on the target list for Al Qaeda.”

Andrew Blankstein and Robert J. Lopez have more:

Downing said the death of Bin Laden does not mean that the threat in Los Angeles has diminished.

“Once you’re on the list,” he said, “you don’t leave the list.”

Photo credit: Associated Press

(Source: Los Angeles Times)

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May 3rd, 2011
UCLA undergrads were not far off in their prediction of where Osama bin Laden was hiding out. Two years ago, a class of UCLA undergrads pretty accurately predicted the the location where Osama Bin Laden was hiding out. The students, working under UCLA geography professors Thomas Gillespie and John Agnew, used geographical theories and GIS software to home in on the world’s most wanted fugitive. Science Insider explains: According to a probabilistic model they created, there was an 89.9% chance that bin Laden was hiding out in a city less than 300 km from his last known location in Tora Bora: a region that included Abbottabad, Pakistan, where he was killed last night. On top of this, they identified 26 “city islands” that they considered to be the highest probability hideouts. To be clear: the class identified the nearby city of Parachinar as being the most likely hideout. (via Ecosystem Geographers Predict Bin Laden’s Hideout - Politics - GOOD)

UCLA undergrads were not far off in their prediction of where Osama bin Laden was hiding out.

Two years ago, a class of UCLA undergrads pretty accurately predicted the the location where Osama Bin Laden was hiding out. The students, working under UCLA geography professors Thomas Gillespie and John Agnew, used geographical theories and GIS software to home in on the world’s most wanted fugitive.

Science Insider explains:

According to a probabilistic model they created, there was an 89.9% chance that bin Laden was hiding out in a city less than 300 km from his last known location in Tora Bora: a region that included Abbottabad, Pakistan, where he was killed last night.

On top of this, they identified 26 “city islands” that they considered to be the highest probability hideouts. To be clear: the class identified the nearby city of Parachinar as being the most likely hideout.

(via Ecosystem Geographers Predict Bin Laden’s Hideout - Politics - GOOD)

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May 2nd, 2011
Raising the 9/11 Generation

newshour:

Thoughtful piece about how all “where were you when” moments are about our children.

It’s the youngest adults who are celebrating. Yes, that is partly because they were the only ones still awake at that late hour. But, more poetically, it is mostly because this is their bookend moment.

(Shared by Managing Producer Patti Parson)

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