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US giving China satellite images of quake damage: Pentagon
0 Comments | AFP, May, 2008
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States is providing China with satellite imagery of reservoirs, roads and bridges damaged in the earthquake that devastated southwestern Sichuan province, the Pentagon said.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is expected to provide the first of the unclassified imagery on Monday if weather permits, in what officials believed to be an unprecedented step.
"They have asked the United States for some imagery of damaged reservoirs, roads, and bridges and the National Geospatial-Intelligence agency (NGA) is providing resources to give them that type of support," said Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman.
China paved the way for the heightened level of cooperation over the weekend by allowing two US Air Force C-17 transport planes...
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