Share this page!

Enter URL or ID to Unroll

You can paste full URL like: https://x.com/threadreaderapp/status/1644127596119195649
or just the ID like: 1644127596119195649

How to get URL link on X (Twitter) App

  1. On the Twitter thread, click on or icon on the bottom
  2. Click again on or Share Via icon
  3. Click on Copy Link to Tweet
  4. Paste it above and click "Unroll Thread"!
  5. More info at Twitter Help
techjournalisto Profile picture
@Techjournalisto
Feb 23, 2022 • 9 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
Scrolly
On July 15, 2021, one girl, three boys, a doctor, an engineer, and a bunch of other civilians get killed in an Afghan airstrike. The reconnaissance plane coordinating bombing w. AAF fighter jets spotted & IDed as a Pilatus PC-12
Our #swissarms story out, a quick #OSINT thread
Video analysis shows a range of bombing videos tweeted by @ro_modafghan. Crosshair & other details such as the flying speed, verified via MGRS calculator (legallandconverter.com/p50.html) corroborate type of reconnaissance plane used.
Pic: MOD boasting w PC12 plane (2)
Mainly Google/Twitter/FB dorks w. Persian translation helped the team. It verified early images of a missing plane, when a Taliban Badri 313 "Special Forces" soldier is IDed on other footage (3)
Helpful dorking cheatsheet here: gbhackers.com/latest-google-…
Satellite data: imgs helped to confirm evacuated PC-12 planes via fingerprinting (length & wingspan).
Via #GoogleEarthPro measured & verified via high-res sat imgs by @planet imgs allowed finding missing plane (4)
Check my post on sat images here:
towardsdatascience.com/how-to-use-ope…
To confirm Pilatus PC-12s planes were "active" in battle, satellite images revealed movements on afghan airbases. How proud AAF was shows imgs from Jul 27, a period when AAF flew many attacks from Balkh, spotted a ready PC-12 when Defense ex-min BismellahGen visited Balkh (5)
Flight tracking was semi-helpful, as most of the AAF Pilatus recon planes turned off their responders.
Though, some did reveal track, s.a PC-12 N349wg,
Data from @ADSBexchange revealed. Also, late 2021, one AAF PC-12 (N419NX) spotted over Abu Dhabi… (6)
To confirm civilian casualties, we villagers confirm who was killed. We checked with a source (@MaihanSarwary who lives in Canada, a Taliban regime critic) who lost his cousins, two brothers in the village, saying one a Doc, had a medicine shop. thx also to @AfghaniWitness (7)
Seldomly have I experienced such a thrill and sorrow for the victims in an investigation: RTS sent a photographer to the bombed village relying on #OSINT intel we gathered upfront. Later sneaked into the PC12 Kabul Hangar... a totally new approach to OSINT conflict journalism (8)
Thanks to the whole PC-12-investigations team which I had the honor heading, great fun with the great @leone_hadavi @boasruh @flatterhaft, @pscllbssr, AndreasSchmid,CécileTran-Tien, @Zard8 , @SRFinvestigativ, @LHreports crew, @bellingcat folks & others, so many great people 💟

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with techjournalisto

techjournalisto Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @Techjournalisto

techjournalisto Profile picture
Sep 24
NEW🧵 Russian Spy Ships Project - Espionage at Sea
1/ research ships with armed soldiers syst spy on gas pipelines, datacables, wind farms, & military infrastructure in the Baltic & North Seas. This is revealed by our int. #investigation involving journalists from six countries
2/ October 2023: The containership #NewnewPolarBear crosses the #Balticconnector #Pipeline and slows down abruptly. Its anchor severely damages the pipeline.
2.2/ Just months earlier, the Russian seabed survey ship #Sibiryakov conducted suspicious maneuvers, at least once directly over the pipeline. Was it preparing for sabotage?
#OSINT #Espionage #NorthSea
Read 12 tweets
techjournalisto Profile picture
Jun 26
🚨NEW: Russia bleeds tanks. We wanted to know how long Russia can hold out with the current losses, using heaps of old tanks from military bases. And used #AI to count & analyze fading tanks stocks. Visual investigation as @SZ_Investigativ together with @Se_Gier & @SZ visual team
We looked at the biggest military bases on land, abt 87, to understand why experts say that out of 5 tanks Russia sends to the UKR font 4 are used/refurbished. "86% of 1530 tanks delivered were refurbished tanks from storage". Michael Gjerstad,
@IISS_org. Stocks aren't bottomless
We trained the AI model a few bases to recognize armored vehicles/tanks/IFV, which needed crisp satellite images. Helped by @Picterra, we trained & improved the model, so we can run it on many bases to understand the shrinking stock of vehicle types
Read 8 tweets
techjournalisto Profile picture
Sep 21, 2023
Howdy, fellow #OSINT #Journalist. I want to share with you my latest checklist for #OSINT #company investigations.

This way, you'll ensure you check all boxes when investigating... Links contain my go-to sources.... let's dive in (Version 1.0) - PDF at the end of 🧵 Image
We start with a company name... First up, 1. Gain a general overview of what you are dealing with. Google dork the firm, use a corporate wiki, understand jurisdiction & company form -> then check with business registries, that might be responsible... Image
4. Check for leaked data on the company and owner/managers: If you are suspecting a shell company, check OCCRP and @ICIJ Offshore leaks. If personal company data, search for ransomware leaks or country specific DBs (e.g for Russia). A list of my favs ...
Image
Image
Read 18 tweets
techjournalisto Profile picture
May 22, 2023
#WagnerGroup PMC is still active in #Mali.

Wagner's operation in UA may have distracted the reporting, but the story continues, with it the expansion, possible atrocities, the hunt for minerals and the looting... funding the war in Ukraine

An update: #OISNT thread Image
In mid-September 2022, 14 civilians of the Tuareg, a Berber ethnic minority, are allegedly killed by Wagner soldiers. Some 6km from a place called Nani, central Mali. Wagner was building a presence there, for months. Bodies are being shoved into a crater.. Image
...the crater was created earlier when a soldier allegedly ran over it with his motorcycle, which then exploded. As a response, civilians were killed and stuffed in this crater...
The violent & disgraceful behavior by Wagner mirrors to details of the massacre analyzed by the UN Image
Read 19 tweets
techjournalisto Profile picture
Jan 12, 2023
Reiche in Privatjets wollen vermeiden, dass man ihnen auf die Finger schaut. Bei einer monatelangen Datenrecherche zusammen mit dem NDR zu #Privatjet Flügen kam das auch heraus -

Ein🧵 dazu wie Reiche im wortwörtlichen Sinne unter dem Radar fliegen
Lang ist es nicht her, im Dezember erst, dass Elon Msk den Twitter Account von Jack Sweeney, die Person hinter einer Jet-Tracking-App von Msk Flugzeug, "geshadowbanned" hat.

Was wir in DE finden, spiegelt das Problem etwas. Vollständige PJ Flüge Datensätze bleiben rar...
000de€ kosten diese granularen Daten, wenn vollständig. Sie werden von Firmen gehortet. Hinzukommt: Daten werden nicht als klar "Privatjets" ausgewiesen. Dazu brauchten wir viel Zeit. Mit dem Chaos der schwammigen Klassifizierung kommen Fehler in der Berechnung der Emissionen
Read 14 tweets
techjournalisto Profile picture
Jan 11, 2023
On August 26, 2022, a bomb hits the colorful playground of RES kids Paradise in Mekelle, Ethiopia. Frames of the climbing area, painted walls, iron stilts, it's all that remains. The attack showed what the warring parties, that fought a bloody war in Tigray, were capable of
A🧵
A woman, let's call her Ayana, worked 5km away, heard the sound of the explosions & saw a fighter jet fly away after the impact. She found the charred bodies of two dead children on site. One of the first videos showed more bodies
ethiopiatigraywar.com/incident.php?i… Image
"Yes, I heard bombs & the sound of the jet & me as an aid worker & some of my co-workers gathered with their families at that place, at ResKidsParadise, where I saw that it was totally devastated & mothers were crying, looking for their children who were playing there", told me Image
Read 22 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us!

Send Email!

:(