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Here's our latest, we've found the real name and identity of one of the Skripal suspects https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2018/09/26/skripal-suspect-boshirov-identified-gru-colonel-anatoliy-chepiga/
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It's amazing that they ended up splashing a guy like this's face all over international news and didn't even manage to kill their target. What a fuckup. Or was given this little fucks part of the point?
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Sep 26, 2018 17:58
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Brown Moses posted:Here's our latest, we've found the real name and identity of one of the Skripal suspects Wholly chao excellent work.
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Sep 26, 2018 18:17
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aphid_licker posted:It's amazing that they ended up splashing a guy like this's face all over international news and didn't even manage to kill their target. What a fuckup. Or was given this little fucks part of the point? Someone's going to lose his Hero of Russia medal over that blunder.
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Sep 26, 2018 18:27
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Brown Moses posted:Here's our latest, we've found the real name and identity of one of the Skripal suspects Massive respect
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Sep 26, 2018 20:12
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Seeing articles from the Beeb, independent, telegraph etc on this. Interestingly they mention that British home office apparently already knows the real id of both guys.
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Sep 26, 2018 20:53
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https://twitter.com/XSovietNews/status/1045076195363233792
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Sep 26, 2018 23:24
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We're doing an excellent job then: https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1045189449770881024
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Sep 27, 2018 06:59
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Brown Moses posted:We're doing an excellent job then: And of course the Daily Mirror with a misleading headline.
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Sep 27, 2018 12:29
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That's some good stuff. Keep fighting the good fight, BM.
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Sep 27, 2018 14:25
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Brown Moses posted:We're doing an excellent job then: Good, good...
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Here's a collection of posters that went up in 2014 around Moscow. http://stopfake.org.tilda.ws/
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Brown Moses seems to be too modest to link to the interview with him. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/sep/30/bellingcat-eliot-higgins-exposed-novichok-russian-spy-anatoliy-chepiga The comments section is great, full of regular Guardian readers with English names who happen to be agreeing that Bellingcat is a scam.
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It's been an amazing response, I've even been asked to present our next Skripal piece at Parliament. Hopefully the main result in this will be more funders coming to support Bellingcat, the person who did the majority of the investigation was volunteering, so I'd love to be able to give them a full time position.
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Oct 1, 2018 10:22
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Good luck!
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Brown Moses posted:It's been an amazing response, I've even been asked to present our next Skripal piece at Parliament. Hopefully the main result in this will be more funders coming to support Bellingcat, the person who did the majority of the investigation was volunteering, so I'd love to be able to give them a full time position. Good luck! That reminds me. Talking to people from Ukraine/Russia/Belarus, even those who trust Bellingcat's findings still tend to think that you get your information from intelligence services, because they don't understand how you can find so much in open sources or find sources willing to cooperate. I remember there was kind of a behind the scenes article for the Boeing investigation and Google Earth tips and tricks, so it'd be nice to have one about Skripals at some point. Come to think of it, it's not only about Bellingcat. There's some general distrust in new media and technology, I suppose. Some people don't even believe you can accurately trace someone's movements inside of the UK using CCTV, unless you know specifically where to look, implying maybe that someone informed British intelligence services about Russian agents. I know it's not really hard with face recognition technology and other tools that exist for more than a decade now, but for them it's still something from TV shows with infinite zoom and enhance action on jpegs, and I'm struggling with finding anything that explains this stuff in an accessible way. Maybe it's something Bellingcat could look into, I don't know, just venting, really.
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We've actually just finished a documentary about Bellingcat that will hopefully demystify us a bit. They filmed me and other members for the last 18 months or so, and I just watched the near final edit last night, so it should be released at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam, and hopefully they'll sell it to Netflix or some big TV channel to broadcast.
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Brown Moses posted:We've actually just finished a documentary about Bellingcat that will hopefully demystify us a bit. They filmed me and other members for the last 18 months or so, and I just watched the near final edit last night, so it should be released at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam, and hopefully they'll sell it to Netflix or some big TV channel to broadcast. That sounds great!
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Can't wait
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I hope they interviewed lowtax
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Give a shoutout to your lawyer Leonard J Crabs.
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I remember how Bellingcat would basically post their entire process for all to see and people would still reflexively denounce it as a CIA plot. It feels like that meme with the sponge bob characters: "This is a picture of a russian officer, his uniform, unit badge, and name all match public records, right?" "right, that's a russian army officer!" "Here's a post made by the same russian officer saying he is shipping out to a secret location, the post is time stamped there's a calendar on the wall behind him also showing the date, with a little enhancement you can see the day is circled and "the day we ship out to fight an illegal war against Ukraine" is written" "agreed" "This is another picture of the same russian officer from a public social media post he made with the caption "can't say where I am, but will make daddy putin proud by killing the enemies of russia" and in the background is a very distinct statue and landscape that only exists in a village in eastern Ukraine, right?" "can't argue with that" "A day later someone else posted a video, it shows a scene of night combat, it's dark but you can clearly make out the unit patches on the soldiers uniforms match the unit the previous russian officer was from, someone even calls his name during the video so it's clear this is the officer's unit in active combat?" "that's a reasonable conclusion" "So putting this all together, we can say with a quite a high degree of certainty that this man, an active russian army officer, was certainly in Ukraine on official orders and engaged in fighting?" "Where did you go to school for journalism? That's right, you don't have any official training, you have no education in journalism, none of this is evidence of anything, CIA fake news, your flimsy circumstantial and most likely doctored evidence is full of holes and easily debunked! In fact it's all already been debunked, pathetic lies from a gay women's underwear salesman" It's just that over and over with everything Bellingcat puts out, no matter how simple and obvious the evidence is.
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That's how people are. That's how human brain works in default mode.
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Didn’t the Skripal passport thing require some non-publicly-accessible data, though? Or are Aeroflot flight manifests public? Legit question.
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Also those passport applications stamped "top secret"
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I love how Belarus outlawed alcohol sale at night for an entire calendar day before Lukashenko urged to promptly abolish the ban.
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https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1047795015077040129 Love to see from Russian intelligence the same level of competence that I see in Russian business and Russian civil service every day.
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Give Poland to Russia and Hungary to Turkey, imo everyone wins
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You guys and gals don't realize how much of a dumpster fire 2018 Poland is... It's four centuries too late for that.
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They had printed Google Maps and taxi receipts for their journey from the GRU HQ to the airport. The GRU are total fuckwits.
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Brown Moses posted:They had printed Google Maps and taxi receipts for their journey from the GRU HQ to the airport. The GRU are total fuckwits. https://twitter.com/kremen_x/status/1047804225273716736 Go on Secret Assignment to Europe Keep the taxi receipts Hope to cash it in back home as the expenses Spiritless gayropeans arrest you and take away the receipts MONEY GONE
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Confused about one thing: did they have a diplomatic status? Since otherwise, why expulsion and not arrest...
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OddObserver posted:Confused about one thing: did they have a diplomatic status? Since otherwise, why expulsion and not arrest... They all travelled on diplomatic passports. Details quote:Dutch security services caught four GRU operatives “in flagrante” and immediately deported them to Russia, sources said, while retaining their technical equipment.
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The Dutch put up the slideshow from the presentation, this is my favourite part: https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1047823671992209409
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Brown Moses posted:They had printed Google Maps and taxi receipts for their journey from the GRU HQ to the airport. The GRU are total fuckwits. 
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They also still had evidence on their laptops of previous attacks oh godquote:He said that intelligence from the laptops seized from one of the Russian operatives showed that they had previously also launched a cyber-attack during a world anti-doping conference in Lausanne, as well as travelling to Malaysia during the investigation into flight MH17, which international investigators said was shot down by a Russian military missile. What the gently caress I hope they also have to humiliate themselves on television
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Brown Moses posted:The Dutch put up the slideshow from the presentation, this is my favourite part: Props to them for not littering, lol.
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Paladinus posted:Props to them for not littering, lol. False flag detected!
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OddObserver posted:False bag detected!
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