Satellite Photos Support Testimony That Iraqi WMD Went to Syria
“Our Keyhole spy satellites can pick out someone p*ssing in the street — they would have certainly picked out Hussein sneaking stuff to Syria and where they went to”, says one self-appointed expert. Well, no. Not even close.
KH-12 ground resolution is estimated at perhaps 0.15 meter, which is good enough to recognize an aircraft on the ground, or a building, or a rocket launcher, but not anything much smaller than a truck. Could it tell what’s in one of the thousands of trucks passing every day between Iraq and Syria in 2003? The best it could do is verify that there were trucks passing from point A in Iraq and on to Syria- if you knew where point A was ahead of time.
Iraq is big- 167,400 square miles big. You cannot watch an entire country with a handful of satellites. You can’t even watch a city. The best you can do is go somewhere that intelligence already suggests is a place of interest, and see what you can find… if it’s big enough.
