“Google is playing an unlikely role in the Iraq war,”the BBC reports.”Its online satellite map of the world, Google Earth, is being used to help people survive sectarian violence in Baghdad.As the communal bloodshed has worsened, some Iraqis have set up advice websites to help others avoid the death squads. One tip - on the Iraq League site, one of the best known - is for people to draw up maps of their local area using Google Earth’s detailed imagery of Baghdad so they can work out escape routes and routes to block. It’s another example of the central role technology plays in the conflict - with the widespread use of mobile phones, satellite television as well as the internet - by all sides and for many purposes”.
Survival in Iraq
- February 13th, 2007
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by Jim_Downing
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@ 12:52
Of course, insurgents planning attacks or abductions also have access to Google Earth, and can use it to anticipate escape/approach routes.
Rising tides lift all boats. Or, to put it another way: Fertilizer feeds weeds, too. And some of those weeds are great survivors — viz a recent and fairly sophisticated bait-and-pounce action targeted at Blackwater PMC teams.