Nick Waters

@N_Waters89

Digital media, drones & drone bombs, Syria & civil society. European Press Prize Laureate 2018. Ex-infantry officer. Staff .

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    18 Jan 2018

    Here it is. Every drone strike published by Islamic State in 2017. (I believe) 208 strikes, 450+ images & videos. This was based on a year of leveraging every source possible to collate this data. Free to use with credit. Lets see what we learned:

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    Feb 20

    Fortunate to have 's with us today teaching our students about and . In her work as a journalist + investigator, she found that 82 of the 113 airstrikes she analyzed had munitions made in the USA. `

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    1 hour ago

    Find the missing piece of the puzzle and help us move our investigation forward to save a child. Can you recognise the city in the background? Share your tips with us securely via this form: .

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    14 hours ago

    The ELN’s Attack on the National Police Academy in Bogotá and Its Implications by Ross Dayton ()

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    14 hours ago

    With the OPCW's final report on Douma reportedly nearly complete, it's worth revisiting some of the early evidence that led Bellingcat to conclude that a chlorine attack had taken place:

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    18 hours ago

    HELLO all. This is one of those 'this is really technical but also massively important and scary' moments. I need to do a thread on it to do my best to explain what's going on. Buried in a technical paper is a really big revelation.

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    17 hours ago

    war. war never changes.

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    13 hours ago
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    NEVER [STOP] TWEET[ING].

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  9. 13 hours ago

    The hole in the roof of the building at 34.36428 42.33554 (marked in red) appears after the 21 Apr 16. We can therefore narrow the date range down to: 21 Apr 16 - 18 Jul 2018. So basically, this is reasonably recent footage. (apologies again, licensing restrictions = no phots)

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    14 hours ago
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    do you? sergey --> sergeev, keep the patronymic, search the date of birth, leave the first name blank or add a wildcard operator. want a tutorial on how to use Cronos or basic search functions?

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  11. 13 hours ago

    And the hole in the roof (marked in red) did not appear until *after* 31 Aug 2011, so we have a date range: 31 Aug 2011 - 18 Jul 2018. Again, H/T and awofb for the image.

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  12. 14 hours ago

    I am now very sure at least some of this footage was take some time *before* 18 Jul 2018, however due to licensing restrictions I can't post the sat imagary, sorry ☹️. Suffice to say there is a noticeable change in the building depicted at 0039 of the video at 34.375861 42.273448

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  13. 14 hours ago

    Trying to work out a way to date this footage, but no joy so far.

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  14. 14 hours ago

    has noted that the Iraqi Army has previously had access to these kinds of footage, so it can't be said for sure where how this footage was obtained.

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    Iraqi MoD published footage of Coalition airstrikes on IS hideouts "in the mountains"
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  15. 15 hours ago

    H/T to &

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  16. 15 hours ago

    It should also be noted that this kind of incident has happened before:

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  17. 15 hours ago

    Due to the second set of co-ords being obscured in the final scene, it's not possible to immediately identify where that crash site is and whether it's the same location at the "forced landing" shown immediately before.

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  18. 15 hours ago

    The "forced landing" at the end appears to fit too.

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  19. 15 hours ago

    As mentioned, the co-ords do seem to match real places in Iraq.

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  20. 15 hours ago

    This footage allegedly shows a US drone feed which has been hacked by Iranian assets. We checked the footage and it appears that: 1. The footage does appear to have been taken in Iraq, South-West of Haditha 2. The co-ords in the feed do match locations where the drone is flying

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  21. 18 hours ago

    Seems like quite a few people have been asked to appear on RT in connection with their smears of the Syrian Civil Defence. I wonder if this is an attempt to head off what appears to be a pretty inevitable Ofcom complaint.

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