Satellite Images - Satellite Shmimages :DoD offers phony photos of Qa Qaa

[jefferson_dem]

All praise to JMM at http://talkingpointsmemo.com/ for keeping us all up to speed.

Are these fucks desperate or what?

Imagery of storage bunkers at Al Qa Qaa

DoD released on Oct. 28, 2004, imagery showing two trucks parked outside one of the 56 bunkers of the Al Qa Qaa Explosive Storage Complex approximately 20 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, on March 17, 2003. According to the relese: "It is not believed that all 56 bunkers contained High Melting Explosive also known as HMX. A large, tractor-trailer (yellow arrow) is loaded with white containers with a smaller truck parked behind it. The International Atomic Energy Association inspectors identified bunkers in this complex as containing High Melting Explosive."

However, a comparison of features in the DoD-released imagery with available commercial satellite imagery, combined with the use of an IAEA map showing the location of bunkers used to store the HMX explosives, reveals that the DoD image is not one of the bunkers containing the missing stockpiles.

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http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iraq/al_qa_qaa-imagery4.htm

[AIJ Alom]

1. NICE !!! Let's send this to CNN !!!

[AlamoDemoc]

2. Is this the Mobile Biological

Weapons Laboratories Powell delivered as evidence at the UN ?

[AIJ Alom]

3. oh crow, that's right ? could this be the same image ? are they trying to

dupe us with two images today ? first the twins and triplets of soldiers, now this !

[troublemaker]

4. Sweet stuff. This should hurt.

[jefferson_dem]

5. Kick

:kick:

[CityHall]

6. Remember GW1 satellite photos of Iraqi troops on Saudi border?

Those turned out to be of the wrong place too, confirmed by commercial images of the border that showed no sign of a troop buildup.

[jefferson_dem]

7. NYTimes not buying the faux, trumped up images either -

Yesterday evening, the Pentagon released a satellite image of the complex taken just two days after the inspectors left, showing a few trucks parked in front of some bunkers. It is not clear they are the bunkers with the high explosives.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/29/politics/29bomb.html?hp&ex=1099022400&en=42668de951d694db&ei=5059&partner=AOL