[UncleSamUSA]

How can anyone know he is within a 25 mile radius without knowing precisely where he is??

I no longer pay any attention to ANY "we're close to Bin Laden" stories. All just speculation and false hype.

There is only one Bin Laden story I will pay attention to: the one that says he is in CIA custody or that pieces of his stinking body have been blown all over an Afghan cave.

[Koblenz]

How can anyone know he is within a 25 mile radius without knowing precisely where he is??

Perhaps they picked up a cell phone call with his voice, and were able to figure out which tower his cell phone used. Then they know that that particular tower has a service area of 25 kilometers, and thus they know he's within that radius. Maybe the same thing for a satellite phone: they know that the sat phone broadcast to a particular set of coordinates. He's in remote Pakistan, and they probably don't have cell phone towers, but you never know. Might be easier than land lines.