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IKONOS travels 423 miles above the earth's surface at a
speed of 17,500mph. Its imagery can be used to accurately map, measure
and monitor anywhere on the earth. According to former UN inspectors,
Salman Pak was once and could be the site of a probable BW research.
The Salman Pak facility also includes, according to Iraqi defectors, a
terrorism training facility where they train on a civilian airliner
parked in a field. You can see the aircraft in the image on the right.
The entire facility sits in an ox bow of the Tigris River,
some 25 km south of Baghdad.
This series of shots gradually gets closer to the plane’s fuselage,
located at the southern (bottom) part of the facility, above the bend in
the river.
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