But this had -- would have had consequences that would have been terrible, because obviously any leak would have meant that Osama bin Laden would have been on the run again and perhaps at large again for a long time.

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His 14 senior lieutenants still at large are on the run, but according to the CIA, they are plotting and sending out orders to a terrorism network that may still number in the thousands.

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To achieve this, the company needed to run complex data mining models on a large volume of data, which took at least three weeks of processing time, even with a subset of the 2.8-petabyte data set.

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