Move...along

March 10, 2003 3:05 PM

Nothing to seemove along, move along. Curious to what the picture actually showed? You're not alone.
posted by CrazyJub (17 comments total)

Location of Noah's Ark II.
posted by Stan Chin at 3:07 PM on March 10, 2003

Deleted photograph spawns soon-to-be-deleted Metafilter thread. No film at 11.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 3:09 PM on March 10, 2003

Seems obvious. It showed the location of a military base. What are you implying? That I should be curious? I'm not.
posted by y6y6y6 at 3:10 PM on March 10, 2003

So, without knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time for our readers to crack each other's heads open, and feast on the goo inside?
posted by dhoyt at 3:14 PM on March 10, 2003

Googled for kuw100. Nothing.

Damn. Google's just not fast enough.
posted by silusGROK at 3:18 PM on March 10, 2003

mmmm... free goo....
posted by condour75 at 3:22 PM on March 10, 2003

Here they are: pictures with corrected captions. Of course, they have been corrected, so you can't see what they originally said in the captions.
posted by smackfu at 3:25 PM on March 10, 2003

Man, at first glance I thought this was a picture of a miitary base in Kuwait.

It is warm there, you know?
posted by msacheson at 3:32 PM on March 10, 2003

Shhh. It's a secret. We're invading Iraq. There are army men and women in Iraq.
posted by monkeyman at 3:36 PM on March 10, 2003

I bet it was something identifying that bombed out bunker (2nd photo), and why it was destroyed. The fact that the photo shows the bunker, and the fact that the bunker was bombed in 1991, must give some indication to someone familiar with Iraqi infrastructure exactly where they're at.
posted by jdaura at 3:38 PM on March 10, 2003

Much more likely Kuwaiti or Saudi infrastructure than Iraqi, I would think. While I've no doubt that special forces units are already operating in Iraq, I'd bet a large sum of money that there aren't any British or US warplanes (like that RAF Tornado) based in Iraq.
posted by Zonker at 3:56 PM on March 10, 2003

It was probably a screenshot of one of John Ashcroft's old bondage movies.
posted by xmutex at 3:59 PM on March 10, 2003

xmutex: As opposed to the more recent ones? (Oops! Did I say that?)
posted by allaboutgeorge at 4:21 PM on March 10, 2003

I know a guy at Yahoo. It was actually a scan of a page from The King in Yellow, and nobody knows who put it up, but hundreds of people went crazy before they could take it down. Weird, wild stuff.
posted by Hildago at 5:50 PM on March 10, 2003

I saw this earlier. Here's what it said:

PLEASE BE ADVISED PICTURES FROM KUWAIT, KUW100 THROUGH 106 WHICH MOVED BETWEEN APPROXIMATELY 1500 AND 1600GMT MARCH 10, 2003 INADVERTENTLY IDENTIFIED THE LOCATION OF THE MILITARY BASE. PLEASE DO NOT IDENTIFY THE MILITARY BASE UPON PUBLICATION. IF REFERENCE IS REQUIRED THEN THE PHRASE 'SOMEWHERE IN THE GULF' SHOULD BE USED. REUTERS APOLOGIZES FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE CAUSED.

Whoops.
posted by pmurray63 at 5:59 PM on March 10, 2003

Case Closed. Thanks Mojo!
posted by zpousman at 7:43 PM on March 10, 2003

It was a picture, but if you looked at it you immediately got a phone call from a woman telling you that you had seven days.
posted by HTuttle at 10:24 PM on March 10, 2003