He got a mention at T.O.P. and now this from Wikipedia:
Ibn al-Haytham of Basra invented the modern camera obscura, as described in his Book of Optics in 1021. Nearly a thousand years later, his hometown of Basra was attacked using camera-guided missiles during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.(More from my follow-the-thread web surfing.)
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