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Software to find Osama

NEW YORK, MARCH 9. United States military and intelligence officials are using powerful software called Analyst's Notebook and have engaged the services of Task Force 121, which also helped in the capture of the former Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, to arrive at a clear picture of Osama bin Laden's whereabouts.

Key to the search is ``accumulated humint,'' or human intelligence, a media report said, adding the software used in the search helps piece together data on criminal and terror networks. Quoting officials, Newsweek magazine said an increasing number of ``data points'' — reports of sightings — have created an ever-clearer picture of Osama's area of operation. Now they have focused that to the point where they have been able to send in Predator unmanned aerial vehicles to search for him.

PTI

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