Google Blots Out British Bases
Posted on: Saturday, 20 January 2007, 12:00 CST
British military bases in Iraq are no longer visible using the Google Earth Web site.
Google blotted out the bases at the request of the British government, The Daily Telegraph reported.
The newspaper said a search of Google Earth also showed that other sensitive military installations, including Trident nuclear submarine pens in Scotland and an eavesdropping facility in Cheltenham had also been obscured.
British military personnel had been shocked by the detail visible on the Web site, with pictures showing vulnerable base locations, The Daily Telegraph said.
A Google spokesman told The Daily Telegraph the company had spoken to the British government, but we will not go into the details of those conversations.
Google gets information from third-party providers so all the pictures are publicly available, he said.
An Iraqi insurgent arrested by British troops was found with a Google Earth map of the Shatt Al Arab base, The Daily Telegraph reported earlier this month.
This is evidence as far as we are concerned for planning terrorist attacks, an intelligence officer told the newspaper. Who would otherwise have Google Earth imagery of one of our bases?
Source: United Press International
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