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Now that EU sanctions against the #Skripals poisoning suspects are official — let's take a walk down memory lane.

This is where we began:

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Things only got more interesting from there on out.

Who knew that Russian bureaucracy could leave operatives so exposed? Batch sequence numbers of passports used for covert identities? It was like absurdist theater.

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And it got better, so much better.

Poisoning suspect "Ruslan Boshirov" turned out to be decorated GRU colonel Anatoliy Chepiga. The recipient of Russia's highest state award — i.e. *Putin probably met this man at some point*

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"Putin lied to us? How can this be?!" You may be asking yourself right now.

Well, if you have doubts, you should look at more hard evidence as to who "Ruslan Boshirov" really is:

bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
The second suspect, the man who famously deadpanned that he went to Salisbury because it's a "wonderful" town, was then identified by us as Dr. Alexander Mishkin.

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In our full report on Dr. Mishkin, we discussed his biography, his humble beginnings, his grandmother, who is said to be proud of him — and the fact that yes, all evidence points to him also being the recipient of the Hero of Russia award, like Chepiga

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The Russian authorities don't like the fact that we have pointed all of this out.

No one likes being caught in a massive lie.

No one likes to realize that their spies have been compromised in the most banal ways possible.

But this is the 21st century. Data, uh, finds a way.
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The Washington Post is reporting on an ISIS chemist that has confessed to trying to make chemical agents for the group, including successfully producing sulphur mustard.
Bellingcat has examined two sulphur mustard attacks by ISIS in 2016, the first in the town of Marea, north of Aleppo, where sulphur mustard filled mortar shells were fired at the town. bellingcat.com/news/mena/2016…
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Bellingcat
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We had a pretty big 2018, so we're going to recap our top 10 (by page views) investigations of the year in this thread:
10) @N_Waters89, our resident drone expert, analyzed footage of the attack on Maduro in Caracas from August 4th, finding that an attack with two drones loaded with explosives did indeed try to attack the Venezuelan president.
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We're running a (free) workshop in Bishkek, 26-28 January 2019. The training will be led in Russian by two Bellingcat trainers. Check the information in the post if you would like to participate.
We will also be leading a (not free) workshop in Toronto in May 2019. More details will come in January on that.
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1. With all this talk about hacking today I thought it might be kinda fun to take a walk down memory lane and look at a few articles on the inter webs discussing the DCC/DNC hacked e-mails. First up we have Elena Weismann from the Daily Caller: dailycaller.com/2016/07/29/now…
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>> NEW INCIDENT near #Salisbury:: Two collapse in #Amesbury, UK—near site of Russian spy #Skripal poisoning by military grade chemical weapon - BBC News bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
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Oh hey I see people linking this tweet me along with the #StealthJeffHoax hashtag.

Apparently, some people think I've always been a Trump supporter.

Far from it!

In fact, let's take a walk down memory lane and remember just how Never Trump I was back in 2016.
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