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 Google Terror Launched Amid Much Controversy
By Alan Lord
NEW YORK - Google today launched a new application: Google Terror, which allows the FBI, the CIA, or just about any average web-surfing putz who logs on, to track potential targets for terrorism worldwide. Using the well-known and much-loved Google Earth format, red dots show where terrorists may choose to strike next. For example, over the New York map, a red radioactive dot appears over the tallest building in each city block, along with other dots over landmarks such as the Holland Tunnel, Statue of Liberty, JFK Airport, Port Authority and Brooklyn Bridge. The user has to adjust an appropriate viewing scale however, or else the Eastern United States just becomes a jumbled red mass from Boston to Miami.
FBI and CIA officials have already expressed their misgivings over Google Terror, saying it only adds one more tool to the terrorists' °ßtool box°®, and that such easy visualization of potential targets would only encourage terrorist acts in the future. Also, they were concerned that one-day the expression “to Google someone” could mutate to mean “I blew the guy up along with the rest of his family.”
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is said to approve of the project, but has specifically requested that Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin "wipe Israel from the Google-Earth once and for all."
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