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To: JohnGalt
Keep remembering how the military used the wrong street maps and ended up bombing the Chinese embassy in Sarajevo in '98-'99.
3 posted on 02/23/2004 11:53:21 AM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: lilylangtree
Keep remembering how the military used the wrong street maps and ended up bombing the Chinese embassy in Sarajevo in '98-'99.

They were working off a map three years old, and wrong. That's a bit ironic because in my career I seldom had a map that new, and often was working on maps that were twenty years or more older.

Even in the final years of the cold war, most of our maps of Russia were based on aerial surveys done by the German Luftwaffe in WWII.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

4 posted on 02/23/2004 12:13:24 PM PST by Criminal Number 18F
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