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Terrorist Propaganda Video Showing Google Earth Imagery

posted by Satri on Friday February 09, @06:00PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the not-surprising dept.
Ogle Earth details a terrorist propaganda video showing Google Earth imagery. From the blog: "About one third of the way through, you see a screen that clearly shows images taken from Google Earth, with somebody scoping the scene of the attack. Interestingly, what the propaganda video shows is stitched screenshots, rather than Google Earth running [...]"

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