excerpts from http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-120501shroder.story about the importance of operational security Later CNN gave Shroder an enhanced copy of the complete tape. It revealed that the camera operator did not turn off the camera while he removed it from the tripod. As he tilted the camera up, the outline of the top of the ravine was caught on two frames. Armed with this new information, Shroder was able to place Bin Laden in a province in the south. ....... "They told me, 'You guys have made yourselves a little too vulnerable,' " he said. Now, the nondescript room Shroder and his team use to assemble and analyze maps of Afghanistan has been secured: digital locks and 24-hour audio and video surveillance. "I'm now a worldwide target."