Terrorists use Google Earth for Attacks

we should close the google earth, the terrorist blogs, the "making bombs" sites, the internet, the airlines, and stay at home under our beds because of damn terrorists.

anyone for tennis ?

Diamond Dave said:

This is really messed up I just read an article telling how terrorists are using Google Earth to help blow up shit!


Terrorists in Basra who are attacking British bases are using the high resolution images from Google (News - Alert) Earth to accurately pinpoint their attacks. This was revealed when a raid was conducted on the homes of insurgents last week. Printouts of photographs taken from Google Earth were seized and these photographs provide detailed information about the bases inside the buildings. The documents seized also point out the vulnerable areas such as lavatory blocks and tented accommodations and the exact longitude and latitude of the British camp.Intelligence officers in the British camp are convinced that these images were for the purpose of terrorist attacks. In the past six months, one soldier was killed by a mortar attack and several others were injured. Since the seizure of these documents, intelligence officers have been keeping a close watch on the landing of the rounds to see if the attacks were aided by Google Earth?s images.

Google Earth provides images of different parts of the world. Anyone can sign up for Google Earth and view almost any location on Earth, simply by typing the name of the location. These locations can be viewed with amazing clarity and even the minute details are not missed. Google provides these images to the surfers by buying aerial imagery taken from aircrafts and satellites.

tmcnet.com/news/it/2007/01/18/2253556.htm

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hmmm, so who gives a fuck?

seriously, they use google earth, we use other kind of technology. this is a fucking war, and you can't expect somebody to just lie down and let themselves get bitch slapped.

i'm not siding with the 'terrorists' or 'terrorism' anything, but i've read about this a while ago....it sure is nothing compared to what we're using against them.

shit, all i have to say is that if this country was taken over for what ever reason, i bet 95% of the people on this board could do some major damage to the 'invader' using anything they could get their hands on. I bet 50% of the board could make a bomb, 50% would shoot a rocket, and yes...100% could use google earth to aim and fire.

Finally, after all is said and done....after what we know know.... we went to Iraq under false pretenses. there were WMDs and there were no connections to Alqaida. no connections to 9/11. How many fucking soldiers died because of the lies that brought us into this fucking war????

Shit, if Bush just wanted to take out sadam, all he had to do was to get some hit man to take him out, if he just wanted the oil, he could have taken sadam out and put in a lap dog in his place. but no, we had to go in, kill innocent civilians and British/US soldiers....and what do we have out of it???? Why did we invade?

I mean no disrespect to you guys, but this g*d damn war has got to end one way or another. I can't take another 10,20,30,100 years of this stupid fucking war.


Rant over. Moving on. Nothing to see here.

When there are freely acessable satilite mapping programs out there, of course they are going to use it.

MoneyMakerRay,

Now THAT is clever. What a cunning idea!

themagician

xfiver said:

Yeah, kinda predictable and this has been going on for a while. That's why some parts are censored, like government spots etc.

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which makes them more obvious spots to attack.

Yes, I read an article about that some time ago. It applied to Israel. The terrorists were using Google to attack civilian targets.

Yes, like most things, technology can be used for good or bad.

I recently had a speeding fine quashed, because Google Maps showed that I wasn't in a built-up area. There was a cliff on one side, and the sea on the other. Technology showed up the cops. They still wouldn't admit they were wrong, even though we were right, but they couldn't fine me, caus' I wasn't breaking the law.

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