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“Google Earth helps extremists terrorise Mumbai,“ scream the headlines as more than 170 people are killed in November 2008. The gunmen came ashore on the evening of November 26th and made their way to targets across the south of the city of 13 million.
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Norris, P. (2010). The threat of satellite images. In: Watching Earth from Space. Springer Praxis Books(). Praxis, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6938-5_1
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