Sniper teams at Barack Obama's inauguration?

Deviating from my usual themes of cars and games (with the odd recipe thrown in), I thought I'd share something interesting I came across yesterday.  Gizmodo featured an article about an amazing 1,474 megapixel panoramic image taken during Barack Obama's inauguration.  It is seriously impressive, allowing the user to zoom into the image to reveal greater detail - similar to Google Earth in a way. After firstly zooming in on Obama, the second thing I did was to - quite naturally - go looking for military snipers.  And I found some!  Zooming in on one of the buildings near the centre of the image revealed a group of interesting guys...

The most interesting thing is that the US appears to have outsourced the protection job to the British SAS.  Don't believe me?  Here is a photo of the British SAS taken during the famous Iranian embassy siege in the 80s.  Eerily similar eh?

Of course, once I 'discovered' the sniper team I went searching the internet to see if anybody else had found them.  The answer was yes, and not just this sniper team but other potential candidates too. Oh well, so much for a FerrisGTI exclusive...