Sunday, January 14, 2007

Goooogle...The Terrorist CIA

Anyone with any imagination at all could see this one coming a mile away...

From the UK Telegraph...

Terrorists attacking British bases in Basra are using aerial footage displayed by the Google Earth internet tool to pinpoint their attacks, say Army intelligence sources.

Documents seized during raids on the homes of insurgents last week uncovered print-outs from photographs taken from Google.

The satellite photographs show in detail the buildings inside the bases and vulnerable areas such as tented accommodation, lavatory blocks and where lightly armoured Land Rovers are parked.

Written on the back of one set of photographs taken of the Shatt al Arab Hotel, headquarters for the 1,000 men of the Staffordshire Regiment battle group, officers found the camp's precise longitude and latitude.



In the case of wars, Cold and otherwise a free and open society is sometimes a double edged sword. I wonder what if anything Google will do about this...

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