Great moments at NIMI

rayrena rayrena at accesshub.net
Sun May 16 07:48:20 PDT 1999


Michael Pollak forwarded:


> Federal mapping agency has history of providing incomplete or
> inaccurate data


> LOS ANGELES (May 15, 1999 10:32 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) -
> The federal agency responsible for making charts and maps used by
> military pilots has a history of providing incomplete and inaccurate
> data, resulting in fatal mishaps such as the bombing of the Chinese
> Embassy in Yugoslavia and the slicing of a gondola cable at an Italian
> mountain resort by a U.S. military jet, the Los Angeles Times reported
> Sunday.
[etc.]

Counterpunch has an excellent article that examines the ways in which Nato spun this story, how as new issues came to light Nato's explanations changed. Very illuminating.

<http://www.counterpunch.org/maps.html>

Eric



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