I made two new KML location files for Google Earth:
  • Locations of the US's Strategic Petroleum Reserves (kml) - They're salt mines that the US just fills up with oil; along the Gulf coast; important now that the Gulf Coast's been ravaged by Hurricane Katrina
  • The bridges where the Iraqi Shi'a stampede occured (kml), leaving 700+ people dead.  A rumor of a suicide bomber ran through a religious procession of Shi'a pilgrims as they were over a bridge leading to Kazimain, the location of the Shrine of the 7th Imam, Musa al Kasim, just outside of Baghdad.  Earlier in the day, mortars were fired at the shrine and the US retaliated at the attackers via helicopter.  Here's an edit of interest:  In 1980, I visited that shrine.

I've been doing some Google Earth experiments and I think I've got some interesting cataloging projects in mind (locations of all important Shi'i shrines in Iraq and Iran, the ones I've been to, etc.)