Yes a great shame the British government didn't ask the yanks for help as thry intimated they could or would do.
I wonder would that have been because the UK government understood that it was a pipedream with no substance to it? Unlike Amaral there are people in the British Government who actually understand the nature of satellite imagery and knew full well that the idea that there were images of PDL at the ridiculous resolution that C.Edwards has claimed was simply not true. Why waste time persuading the US government to hand over something they understood did not exist. No problem for Amaral, by then he was an unemployed man with plenty of time to dream his dreams.
It is pointless continually trying to goad me. You are quite simply wrong. Resolutions of less than 15cm have been available to the military for more than 10 years. They now have resolutions an awful lot less than that. Even commercial resolutions are now 50cm. I only respond now in order to stop your propaganda going unchallenged. Good evening to you <raises top hat> .
Absolutely nobody is challenging the resolutions you claim. It takes about 20 seconds to google that information.
The question is not about the current situation, nor about the basic technical abilities of the satellites. The question relates to the situation six years ago in what is effectively an area of absolutely no strategic significance in terms of satellite imagery.
There is nothing anywhere which even suggests that there was any such high resolution imagery of the PDL area. Even the article which has been posted refers only to sweeps of the country related to military and government facilities. As there are none in that village (unless you can suggest otherwise) then it rather answers that point.
Are you genuinely suggesting that the US had, in 2007, (or even has now) satellites trained on every single point of the globe (or even, lets just say, every populated point on the globe) which are continuously focusing on at resolutions of .50 metres or less? If so then I am afraid you are away with the fairies in the realms of crazy conspiracy nonsense. The expense and the date storage required would be huge.
As I pointed out earlier, if that was the case why has not one single case ever (to the best of my knowledge and clearly yours) been solved by police requesting either military or commercial satellite imagery? If you could answer real questions such as that instead of just giving generalities which bear no relation to the real situation then perhaps your rather condescending approach to posting might be more effective. Till then, I suggest you doff your ridiculous top hat once again and knuckle down to some real research into the matter.
The article posted refers only to "formal request". In a matter of this nature the formal approach is (as you may or may not be aware) only one method of inquiry. When it is specifically referred to in this way it is highly suggestive that other routes of inquiry were in fact used.
It is pie in the sky (see what I did there?) for Amaral to be placing reliance of this approach. It shows sheer desperation that his hopes rest on Julian Assange and a chance that a few images might be forthcoming by some illegal means from extreme high-resolution satellites which almost certainly were never trained on a place as lacking in strategic importance as PDL. That is not expert policing, it is bordering on insanity.
