Pakistani Camo Landscape

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These people are not wearing their videoconference faces.
According to the EXIF data, White House photographer Pete Souza took this photo at 4:05 PM, or 1:05 AM Abbottabad Time, five minutes in. They’re watching it as it happened. Which people already know, since it has garnered 455,000 views been blogged and retweeted and facebooked 455,000 times in a matter of hours.
Souza also asks us to “Please note: a classified document seen in this photo has been obscured.” Indeed, there it is. Funny how unobscured it looks at this size.
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Let’s take a closer look:
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Didn’t I just post something about collecting all the seals and emblems of government agencies?
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Because that’s the seal for the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency sticking out from underneath there. As you’d expect.
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And that corner of landscape does look like the image of left sideyard of OBL’s compound. [image via ogleearth]
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And now that you mention it, the pixelated image does look like the front gate area of the compound, just at an as-yet-unacknowledged high resolution. Of course, from here, it also kind of looks like a painting. I’ll get right on that.
Previously: Google Maps & the everchanging Dutch Camo Landscape