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Eliot Higgins
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Probably because we don't hire people who think George Bush's notorious "Mission Accomplished" banner was CGI'd in, or spread conspiracy theories about rescue workers harvesting organs.
Source for the "Mission Accomplished" claim, via the SPM Working Group's @PiersRobinson1:
The speech was actually broadcast live with the banner visible from multiple angles, but the SPM Working Group's @PiersRobinson1 claims it was superimposed.
More information the SPM Working Group's @PiersRobinson1's various theories here huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/professo…
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Many people have made comparisons between Wikileaks and Bellingcat in the last couple of days, but it's like comparing apples and oranges. Wikileaks elicits and publishes leaked materials, we analyze open source materials and, in very rare cases, leaked data.
The clearest case of this can be seen in a story on our October 2018 story "305 Car Registrations May Point to Massive GRU Security Breach". We found this data in pre-published leaked materials, but purposefully chose to not doxx these GRU agents.
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We could have easily published all of the available personal information about these 305 GRU officers, but chose not to because it would just be doxxing for the sake of it. Despite what some think, we are not an extension of any security service.
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Among other things, this includes the example of the bombing in Sarmin where the Russian MoD used aerial imagery from before an attack occurred to claim an attack didn't occur bellingcat.com/news/2015/11/0…
It's such a good example of a government using deceptive imagery to lie about air strikes we use it in all of our 5 day workshops, clearly demonstrating how open source evidence proves they are lying.
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Updated chemical weapon attack graphic from @UNCoISyria. Something I didn't notice before, the April 7th 2017 attack note says the victims suffered the same symptoms as those involved in the March 30th 2017 attack, where Sarin was used....
The Sheikh Maqsoud and Saraqib April 2013 attacks were two strange attacks with Sarin using grenades in breeze blocks dropped from helicopters. The Sarin used contained our old friend hexamine, and I examine the attacks here:
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Interesting to note the @UNCoISyria description of the March 2013 Khan al-Assal attack & the August 2013 Al-Ghouta attack. Despite Russia producing a detailed report on Khan al-Assal, it's never been released publicly. I hope one day to see it for myself. thedailybeast.com/its-time-russi…
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