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Who were the agents who vetted Asif Rahman? Information about this federal worker who wanted to harm Israel can be found here: “US government worker charged with leaking classified documents on Israel’s plans to strike Iran,” by Eric Tucker, Associated Press, November 13, 2024:Now let me guess…A man who worked for the U.S. government has been charged with leaking classified information assessing Israel’s earlier plans to attack Iran, according to court papers filed Wednesday.The man, identified as Asif William Rahman, was arrested by the FBI this week in Cambodia and was due to make his first court appearance in Guam.He...

The fine "autists" at Reddit are doing their usual thorough real-time mine through the latest Podesta Email dump #16 by WikiLeaks. Read analysis here

Two months ago, after much lobbying by the biggest satellite company in North America, DigitalGlobe, the US government relaxed restrictions to allow for commercially available satellite imagery up to 25 cm resolution—twice as detailed as the previous limit of 50 cm. Now, the first commercial satellite set to capture these high-res images, DigitalGlobe's Worldview-3, will launch this Wednesday. The extra sharp images from Worldview-3 will greatly increase the maps' level of detail to the point where it can make out 10-inch objects, which means Google will soon be able to see “manholes and mailboxes” from its hired eyes in the...

The First Bush Space Policy Frank Sietzen, Jr. Tuesday, May 13, 2003 Today's action puts the first Bush administration 'stamp' on U.S. Space Policy, and while it is only the first policy action in an anticipated series, it has a clearly identifiable cast to its contents. The new space remote sensing policy released today by the National Security Council has a decidedly free market, conservative slant as it seeks to craft a new cooperative framework between U.S. federal users of space photography and the fledgling industry that is struggling to offer such services. Commercial sources of high resolution images...

Large, violent tornadoes can leave scars on the earth that are easy to spot on high-resolution satellite imagery. The segment of the damage path depicted above is from an EF4 tornado that moved near Berry, Alabama during the Superoutbreak of 2011 on April 27. The damage path was 116 miles long. (Image, information credit: NASA Earth Observatory (EO-1 satellite))

In the last few months, Lebanese terror group Hezbollah appears to have received over a hundred M600 ballistic missiles from Syria. Now, after many people scoured Google Earth satellite photos of Syria and Lebanon, looking for the weapons, something particularly interesting was found in northern Syria, outside the town of Masyaf. Google Earth users noted five compounds, that appear to be closed to all but authorized personnel. Inside these compounds there appeared to be entrances to bunkers dug into adjacent hills. In 2003, Syrian sources reported that Iraqi chemical weapons were sent to Syria, and some were storied in bunkers...

Flash Earth is an experimental application using satellie and aerial photography from Google Local.

Click on the links below to see some incredible before and after images of the beach area of Kalutara, Sri Lanka. The images are high-resolution QuickBird satellite images featuring the southwestern coast of Sri Lanka. The before imagery was collected in January 2004 and the after imagery approx 4 hours after earthquake and shortly after the moment of tsunami impact.

( grey blue areas indicate strikes ) Dawrah area ( pre 3rd ID " drive by " ) http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/iraq/dawrah_before.jpg Baghdad overview: http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/iraq/baghdad_overview.jpg North Baghdad: http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/iraq/north_baghdad.jpg Republican palace: http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/iraq/republican_palace_crop.jpg Republican palace: http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/iraq/north_baghdad.jpg South of Shaab Stadium: http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/iraq/shaab_stadium.jpg Abu Ghurayb Palace: http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/iraq/abu_ghurayb.jpg

Embedded in the office behind his Columbus Drive home, Chuck Watson reports to the world nearly in real-time about Iraq. His reporting tool of choice? Satellite imagery. The unassuming mapping and satellite expert has scooped traditional news outlets more than once during the war. Watson posted on his Web site enhanced satellite images that showed: * Oil fires in Kirkuk; * Fires around Baghdad; * Fighting in Basra. They were posted before any worldwide media reported the events. The images amazed Mark Johnson, a statistics professor at the University of Central Florida, who works on modeling projects with Watson. "He...

Is the Activity at Al Qaim Related to Nuclear Efforts? by David Albright and Corey Hinderstein September 10, 2002 High-resolution commercial satellite imagery shows an apparently operational facility at the site of Iraq's al Qaim phosphate plant and uranium extraction facility (Unit-340), located in northwest Iraq near the Syrian border. This site was where Iraq extracted uranium for its nuclear weapons program in the 1980s. The al Qaim site was thoroughly destroyed by aerial bombing during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Given the absence of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Action Team inspectors on the ground since December 1998,...