[Eleutheria5]

Google Earth's pictures of Israel are supposed to be too fuzzy to be used for targeting. That was the arrangement. Perhaps Google will get serious when people start suing it.

[Winged Hussar]

Terrorists who spoke to Weinberger said they plan to continue with rocket attacks despite the deployment of the Iron Dome system, which shoots short-range rockets out of the air. “The Israelis are using a lot of money for this defense, but during the last rocket attacks, our rockets made it through,” explained Abu Hamza, a senior Islamic Jihad terrorist.

Well, what would happen if Israel applied the Dresden, or even Hiroshima, treatment to the source of the rockets? That would fix the problem and eliminate the need to expend Iron Dome rockets on defense.

[Harpo Speaks]

Meh...20 years ago, they would have boasted the same thing about Rand-McNally helping them. Big deal.

Big talk from guys with small sticks, IYKWIM/AITTYD.

[tlb]

>>> Google Earth’s pictures of Israel are supposed to be too fuzzy to be used for targeting

These aren’t pinpoint missiles. Fuzzily “close” is good enough.

If you have Google Earth, sometime take a look at Norfolk or Pearl Harbor. It’s all there in scarey detail.

And there is no point in getting upset with Google. Satellites have been taking pictures for a couple generations now. Even Iran launched their own first generation system not long ago. If not from google they’d get it from other sources.

[livius]

That’s Muslims for you. They can take any wonderful technology that the modern world has produced and turn it into something to use for murder.

I hate Islam. It’s evil, but instead of destroying Islam, we are simply retreating and punishing ourselves by limiting or prohibiting the use of technology for anyone lest the Muslims employ it for their usual destructive purposes. This is what has turned routine air travel into a nightmare.

[LibWhacker]

“The technology is always improving,” a terrorist calling himself Abu Saif told journalist Sharon Weinberger. “Our struggle started with the Kalashnikov, and then it moved to the suicide bomb, then the locally made rocket, and now the Grad rocket.”

And eventually they'll get their hands on nukes, given to them by Iran or Pakistan, etc. Then what? Will we act before then? Doesn't look like it.

[Diogenesis]

Google obviously plans these for targeting of Israel
and America.

Shame on the owners of Google.

[silverleaf]

makes sense for a group that considers as enemy targets, schools, daycare centers, synagogues, shopping places

[bert]

The rockets are pointed and then hope guides them. The Hamas rockets are pretty much ineffective except as weapons to enhance anxiety and terror.

The use of Google earth to find targets is thus a joke.