From Wired Magazine:

Where in the world is Osama bin Laden? Uh … try checking Google Earth. After Google recently updated its satellite images of parts of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, much of the region still looked blotchy — the kind of low resolution that persists in coverage of, say, upstate New York. But several small squares (they stand out as off-color patches from 680 miles up) suddenly became as detailed as the images of Manhattan. These sectors happen to be precisely where the US govern­ment has been hunting for bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Google doesn’t ask why resolution improves in particular locations. But the CIA believes bin Laden is holed up in the Hindu Kush mountain range-one of the most out-of-the-way places on Earth — and you can now see every house, school, and mosque in certain villages there. Keep your eyes peeled for a very tall guy with a long beard and an AK-47.

The image below is of the same village shown in the article, only larger. No, I didn’t just copy the image off Wired’s site, I actually went out and found the exact place in Google Earth.

This image is that of the village and the are directly to the east, which is not as high-res as the shot of the village itself. The difference in resolution is clear…

Now let’s see. Where in Pakistan/Afghanistan is Osama…?