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Zarqawi Safe House on Google Earth
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Carrick - 04:06pm on 06/12/2006
For anybody who's downloaded Google Earth, it's an incredibly cool product from Google for viewing the Earth from space. You can rotate the view, change the angle of view (to mimic the view from a plane). When I pointed it at Iraq, I was amazed with the quality of the images, considering how poorly covered parts of the US are.

The region I was looking at was around Hibhib, Iraq. The images are good enough to resolve cars on the highway in some cases. What I was interested in was whether I could pinpoint this location, which is a screenshot of the military video showing the raid on Zarqawi's safe house:

For those who are interested I believe the safe house is located at 33°48'3.07"N 44°30'48.16"E

And here is my reconstructed view using the Google tools:
Not a perfect match, but then the Google transformations are only approximate, nor did I spend that long trying to match up the perspectives.
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