Iraq/Kuwait Pipeline?

On May 25, while scanning the Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program images pipelined into his desktop from 450 miles in orbit, Hank Brandli skidded at a nighttime photo of Iraq. It looked familiar. But not exactly.

Brandli retrieved another DMSP image he'd archived from May 3. He compared the two. The most recent photo showed a blazing corridor of light running the length of Kuwait, south to north, all the way to the Iraqi border. The image wasn't there on May 3.

"It's going right up to Iraq's oil fields," says the retired Air Force colonel from his home in Palm Bay. "Maybe I'm full of s---. Maybe all they're doing is building a highway to put in McDonald's and sell hamburgers. But why go that way? I think we're in bed with Kuwait. I think we're pumping oil out of Iraq to pay for this war."

http://www.floridatoday.com/!NEWSROOM/peoplestoryA1172A.htm

I'm bookmarking kicking it up though so it doesn't get lost. :kick:

That's just the James A. Baker Turnpike.

Purely by coincidence, of course.

the bush gang steals the oil while the poor GI's die,that bastard should be impeached. Wake up America.

... is that it seems like a good grab at first--expert on satellite imagery finds two dramatically different images of the same place, and the only difference is three weeks.

Now, does _no one_ have friends in Kuwait, and/or Saudi Arabia, to determine what is on the ground in that area? I find it very odd that there's no follow-up story on this that I can find. After all, a pipeline is bigger than a breadbox, and night construction is fairly obvious.

Cheers.