To: taxesareforever
It doesn't matter to me whether Noah's Ark is found or not. However, I am left wondering why photos of Mt.Ararat have been classified for so many years. Can anyone say, "information suppression"? Really, what is on Mt.Ararat that would be considered "classified"?
Just guessing: Mt Ararat is in Turkey. Spying on an ally may prove embarrassing. There may be military bases, or whatever. Just guessing why things are suppressed in a satellite picture.
13 posted on
03/10/2006 12:37:12 AM PST by
sully777
(wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
To: sully777
It doesn't matter to me whether Noah's Ark is found or not. However, I am left wondering why photos of Mt.Ararat have been classified for so many years. Can anyone say, "information suppression"? Really, what is on Mt.Ararat that would be considered "classified"?
Just guessing: Mt Ararat is in Turkey. Spying on an ally may prove embarrassing. There may be military bases, or whatever. Just guessing why things are suppressed in a satellite picture
Plus the fact the resolution capability of the satellite taking the pictures is classified. They could be taking a picture of Kansas and it would be classified.
41 posted on
03/10/2006 5:17:41 AM PST by
upier
(Stop Child abuse - Teach your children English!)
To: sully777
" It doesn't matter to me whether Noah's Ark is found or not. However, I am left wondering why photos of Mt.Ararat have been classified for so many years. Can anyone say, "information suppression"? Really, what is on Mt.Ararat that would be considered "classified"? " Not sure why it would be classified now, but Ararat was a closed military area during the cold war, Ararat was on the Turkish-USSR border. I guess that would be Turkish-Armenian or Turkish-Georgian border now.
69 posted on
03/10/2006 6:31:11 PM PST by
cookcounty
(Army Vet, Army Dad.)
To: sully777
I used to fly over there (As a guest of the Turkish government( in US E-3's). I don't want to add to the Ark debate; just wanted to say to say that is mountainous country is the grandest understatement of all time. It's a land full of tall desolate mountains and deep crevasses.
I suppose they could just fly a chopper in; but I wouldn't want to try it.
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