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Israel appears in the news headlines quite often. I'll try to highlight some points (obvious to most Israelies) that the international media doesn't attend to.

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Sattelite image of Hezbollah district in southern Beirut

Before	After

DigitalGlobe released a picture of a southern Beirut after the Israeli bombings. According to Stratfor this picture shows the Bir al Abid district of downtown Beirut, Lebanon, a known Hezbollah stronghold. The second picture was taken by Google Earth (before the bombing). Notice that buildings from neighbour districts remained unharmed.

Update 29-july-2006: Those of you that installed Google Earth can have both pictures overlayed one on top of the other.

technorati tags: googleearth google earth lebanon war middle east beirut

# posted by Itai Frenkel @ 7:23 AM

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