Over the past weekend many major news outlets were dominated by headlines of a foiled terrorist plot at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, in which four suspects were accused of planning to blow up jet fuel tanks and supply lines.
Court documents were released today stating that Abdul Kadir, one of the men charged in the plot, encouraged the rest of the group to use Google’s online map service, along with the Google Earth software, to obtain highly detailed images of J.F.K. airport, according to The Smoking Gun. This comes less than a month after the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency told Associated Press that the U.S. Government should seriously consider censoring satellite images.
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