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Welcome to the Monday Morning News Kick Off post from got geoint? As always, we hope you had a most glorious weekend relaxing with friends and loved-ones. Well, the time has come — the work week has started and it’s time to get down to business. So, as always, we have been kind enough to provide you with all the news you need kick start your week in high fashion. So, as we always say, fire up that second cup of coffee and read on. Happy Monday!

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As the as James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, highlighted in our exclusive interview with him in 2008 — when he was Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (USD(I) — geospatial intelligence is simply the foundation for other intelligence disciplines. This concept was further reinforced by the recent take down of Osama Bin Laden. Thanks to GEOINT, the Intelligence Community was able to succeed in a historic mission that will bring closure to those impacted by the devastating 9/11 attacks, as well as the entire nation. As Alan Bolye highlighted on his MSNBC blog, “the gutsy military operation would have been impossible to pull off without a web of orbiting satellites.”

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Welcome to the Monday Morning News Kick Off post from got geoint? We hope everyone had a restful weekend and is ready to get back into the game. Speaking of game, did anyone watch the “Manning Bowl” last night where the Manning bros went head-to-head as QBs? Why bring up the game…well Archie Manning, formerly played for the N.O. Saints, and guess where we are all headed in early November? That is right. N.O. here we come. But today is Monday, so fire up that second cup of coffee and read on!

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Imagine if any Pakistani could send an anonymous text message to the authorities suggesting the location of Osama Bin Laden. Each location could be plotted on a map. The dots would be scattered widely, perhaps, with promising leads indistinguishable from rubbish. But on a given day, a surge of dots might point to the same village, in what could not be coincidence. Troops could be ordered in. This kind of everyone-as-informant mapping is shaking up the world, bringing the Wikipedia revolution to the work of humanitarians and soldiers who parachute into places with little good information. Sounds pretty cool, huh? Perhaps we are headed to a future where the best sources of Intel will be actual citizens? We highly recommend you check out this NY Times article about Ushahidi, which is shaking up the GEOINT world with its unique Intel sharing application. And, our faithful got geoint? readers may remember the podcast we did last October with Patrick Meier, Co-Founder, The International Network of Crisis Mappers (INCM). Meier also directs Ushahidi’s crisis-mapping operation.

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Welcome to the official Monday Morning News Kick Off post on got geoint? We hope everyone had a restful weekend and are ready to tackle another week of holiday parties, year-end reviews and 2010 planning. As always, there is never a shortage of defense-, intelligence- and GEOINT-related news. Today, we cover a wide swath of news including stories about climate change and defense, Blackwater losing a CIA contract and what we know about Bin Laden’s location. Fire up that second cup of coffee and read on!

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The hunt for the elusive Osama bin Laden seems to be the biggest challenge for defense and intelligence sources. However, it seems that we are honing in on him. According to a recent USA Today article, he is most likely hiding out in a walled compound in a Pakistani border town. The source for this story is a research team led by geographer Thomas Gillespie of the University of California-Los Angeles. Here’s the link to the actual report in the MIT Review.

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