Armed and Dangerous - and Sponsored by Google

Following up this blog's previous post, I'd like to point to a certain publicly available terrorism planner, namely Google Earth. Notwithstanding its virtues in visualising world geography, the program seems to offer perfectly clear pictures of strategic war- and terror targets, such as public buildings in mega-cities, infrastructure, military installations and so forth. The British web page The Register even mounted a competition where its readers where supposed to find "black helicopters", i.e. military installations. And the overwhelming response should cause alarm. As The Register itself announced the entry pictures:

"Well, the results are in, but before announcing the winners, we thought it would be a lovely idea to have a look at some of the other entries which prove just why Google Earth will eventually provoke the complete collapse of Western civilisation."

Reassuringly, they added: "If your stuff isn't included, don't take it too hard: we had so much material that it would have taken us another month simply to knock it into shape for publication."

Above: Minutemen nuclear rockets, Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, USA