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Iraqi Insurgents Using Google Earth to Mount Attacks
(Telegraph-UK) Jasper Copping - Insurgents could be using satellite images from the popular website Google Earth to mount attacks on British and American bases in Iraq, defense experts said Saturday. "Websites like Google Earth give these people [insurgents] the possibility of leveling the playing field a bit. If you can locate a target on the image it will give you very accurate co-ordinates and a terrorist will know exactly where to aim a missile. If you also have a GPS then you know exactly where you are and you can sit there with your PC and look at these very high resolution satellite images and you will know where to fire your missile from and what to fire it at," said Brian Collins, a professor of information systems at Cranfield University.