Insurgents Using Google Earth in Iraq
Posted Wednesday, February 21st, 2007, at 11:14 am Eastern by Mark Wallace
Quick follow-up to my post about using Google Earth to help survive in Iraq: podcaster Johnny Ming sends along a link to this story from last month about Iraqi insurgents using Google Earth to pinpoint coalition targets. “Documents seized during raids on the homes of insurgents last week uncovered print-outs from photographs taken from Google,” the story says. “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.” Just a reminder that technology makes no value judgments; it can as easily be used for destructive purposes as for benevolent ones.
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They’re also using oxygen! They breathe it in and that enables them to fight and kill! We have to stop this OMFG!!!1one