[SE Mom]

Gotta love the Israeli's...they come right out and tell their citizens if/when they err.

In the meantime..it dawned on me this morning that Al Qaeda is going to get PO'd pretty shortly...the attention is not on them..

[mainepatsfan]

This did push those Indian bombings off the front pages pretty quickly.

[jeffers]

I put together a better map than the one we've been using, after tiring of paging back and forth to find vertical elevation. For reference, the brightest greens run 3500 to 4100 feet above sea level, while the brightest yellows, southwest of Damascus for example, top out just under 9000 feet ASL.

This is the general idea in small format for a quick load:



If you want the full version, it runs 281 KB and can be downloaded at this link:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y138/jeffers_mz/lebanon_pol_2002plusDEMpoint3comp.jpg

The registration isn't perfect, and the projection is a little strange, but the overlay really wasn't intended to be used this way.

For the technically inclined, this is a 30 meter per pixel Digital Elevation Model, from the GTOPO30 dataset, with a raster image drape done using Global Mapper with 4 point manual registration, rendered using Photoshop 5.0 and saved at 30% JPEG compression.

I will conditionally release the image to the public domain for non-commercial use, provided no-one uses it to publicly illustrate combat operations currently underway or operations planned for future execution.