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Google Earth: the photo interpretation challenge

WMDS and black helicopter facilities

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There's some light entertainment this afternoon courtesy of a couple of readers who have spotted further strangeness on Google Earth. First up is Stuart Dempsey, who asks "what the hell?" is this place all about:

Mystery location

Paul Van Den Steene of Brussels, meanwhile, thinks he may have succeeded where the CIA failed and found one of Saddam Hussein's famed Weapons of Mass Destruction™:

That suspected WMD in full

Interesting stuff, which got us thinking of the old days before Google Earth when if you wanted a aerial picture of something some chap had to get into a Spitfire or such like and nip over and grab it on film.

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