Caveat: Looking in the wrong place, maybe

[broken link! FIXME] Tripolibad
Gawker had a screenshot from CNN the other day, showing CNN making a horrible geographical mistake.  They were indicating the wrong Tripoli, on the map.  Instead of Tripoli, Libya, they were apparently reporting on the Libyan insurrection from Tripoli, Lebanon.  Which might explain why no one could find Qaddafi, come to think of it.

That's really a pretty gross geographical error.  It makes me wonder if maybe they'll throw up a map of Iowa, next – after all, there's a town in Iowa called Tripoli, too.  It would be funny if they found Qaddafi there – after all, I recently heard he was declaring as a Republican candidate – Tripoli, Iowa, is a very logical place to do this, one would think.

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