For years Osama bin Laden has been known for strategically abstaining from using electronic communications to keep the whereabouts of his location clandestine. But while disappearing from the radar prolonged the U.S.’s efforts to capture the leader of al Qaeda, it also prompted them to step up its game.
AllThingsD goes deeper by pointing out that Bin Laden’s reliance on an elaborate system of human couriers combined with the U.S.’s boost in extensive and expensive technological tactics was a recipe for an inevitable capture. The site notes that, “Had he or someone living with him engaged in routine communications with the outside world, making the occasional local and international phone calls, he might have been safer, ironically more camouflaged amid the background noise of modern life in urban Pakistan.” Read more from AllThingsD.
