Pakistan Used Google Earth For Military Targeting 111
NeoBeans writes "According to this article in the New York Times about the recent 'improvements' in military strikes by the Pakistani military it is revealed that they have dropped Google Earth as part of their target planning for a more precise technology. From the article, '... the air force has shifted from using Google Earth to more sophisticated images from spy planes and other surveillance aircraft, and has increased its use of laser-guided bombs. And no, you can't really find Osama Bin Laden using Google Maps either."
Re:ban google earth (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Google needs to improve their product (Score:0, Informative)
Pakistan tested their first nuclear bomb in 1998, the same year Google Search launched. Coincidence ?
Re:Pakistani citizen (Score:5, Informative)
The Pakistani military, intelligence and government sponsored terrorism and trained and armed them to create big trouble in Afghanistan and India. It succeeded. Now when the chickens come home to roost, you're blaming others.
So what you're saying is that Pakistan is following our example?
Re:Pakistani citizen (Score:2, Informative)
What you said is right but you cant neglect CIA-Osama relations, creating of military movements in Afghanistan by CIA using Pakistan as proxy ...... US played equal evil if not more than Pakistan
Re:Pakistani citizen (Score:3, Informative)
you obviously can't kill all the Muslims, or convert them to something else, or change the nature of a world religion. At least IMHO you can't have much hope for
Actually in over a dozen countries, muslims have demonstrated the falsity of your statements. [...]
If by "falsity of his statements" you mean that yes, you can kill them all, then you're of course technically correct, because it's possible to kill everybody. This statement however is utterly useless, because if we start from the premise that we can kill everybody, our policy decisions aren't going to be good. At best they will create more terrorists because a lot more people will feel threatened that otherwise wouldn't. Great job.
The rest of your post doesn't warrant much discussion IMHO. You say terror has always been bound to ideologies - that's true, but it's a statement of the obvious, just like the AC's statement that it's also always been bound to particular political and economic situations. He maybe presents his point in a slightly less bigoted fashion. You say the US shouldn't question its own role in today's emergence of terrorism because terrorism existed already in ancient Egypt. Why don't say you shouldn't question Islam's role in genocide because genocide existed before Islam ever emerged then? From that point of view nobody should ever question themselves, because there's always somebody else who did the same thing.
Re:Pakistani citizen (Score:5, Informative)
That might be true, but there seems to be something about the culture which seems to raise terrorists very easily compared to other cultures. Is it because the culture prohibits all contact with members of other sex except in marriage, resulting in testosterone fueled violence or is it the strict adherence to some questionable material in the holy book? I don't know, but all I know is, the tendency and problem does exist and you can't brush it under the carpet with inane platitudes like the one in your sig.
I thought it had something to do with extreme poverty, corrupt governments, and lack of education that created such a mindset.
Yes, some of the 9/11 bombers were well to do and educated but their support base over all would be less inclined for such activities is they weren't rotting in hellholes.
Re:Pakistani citizen (Score:3, Informative)
Heh, in my day, enemies of the US could by top-notch military technology directly from the Commander in Chief of the US military.
Re:Pakistani citizen (Score:2, Informative)