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Finding an ISIS Training Camp Using Google Earth
An anonymous reader writes: Terrorist organization ISIS has been in the news a lot lately for their hostile activities in Iraq and Syria. They've also been very active online, posting propaganda and photos on various social networking sites to try to recruit more members. Frequently, they'll have pictures of themselves in nondescript locations — but even carefully selected images give clues to a real location. Citizen journalists at Bellingcat analyzed a group of these photos, comparing buildings and bridges in the background to images from Google Earth. With very little to go on, they were able to pinpoint the location of a terrorist training camp.
they will find their shoes sizes and dentists name in 10 minutes, for the lulz
All I see is a big smoking crater..
Look back up at my post, now look back down, you're on the Internet. Now look back up. I'm a signature.
come get us....we can't get to you, yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
That is why it wasn't a brilliant move to let a corporation build its spy network when all sides to all conflicts have equal access to the top spy satellites unless you are pushing complete global anhilation..
I wouldn't call getting out of the way "brilliant" either. "Sensible" seems more appropriate. And rather than use the term, "complete global annihilation", I'd use the term, "reduction in conflict".
Almighty Isis, make my phone pay for my potato chips!
Cloudiot: A person who does not see offsite storage as a way to lose control over access to his or her own data.
I'm sure google won't tell anyone about your interests in such things...
As a bonus you can also tell if they are pale Irish or if they have long red hair and boobs.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
It has to do with Obama having more respect for Islam than he does for Americans, you fucking Obama shill.
I've learned to smell out an obnoxious troll post on /. Try to make it into the political. If you had a real argument, you would have presented one. Ta ta...
Seem the area has many groups - some friendly to one agenda, others friendly to other agendas. It doesn't seem hard to use areal photos to find *a* camp. But how might they know it's an ISIS camp? (especially considering that a facility may be Local Police one day, and ISIS the next.
crowdsourcing and internet slething just worked out so well for IDing the Boston Bombers, right?
I wish Peace, to you, fellow traveler. :^)
Seriously, after that sawing off a live man's head, I have NO problem with blowing these assholes away. In fact, I would be happy to pull the trigger to launch.
Now, the real question is, did this interfere with an on-going operation? I would hate to think that showing them how easy it is to find out info from their propaganda would stop its flow.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
ISIS has a lot of foreign fighters you moron, they are the one imposing their laws on the locals. But don't let facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory.
Langley.
Also training ground for Hamas, Bin Laden, Al-Qaeda...
As the AC below commented, many of ISIS fighters are foreign nutjobs. And guess where their passports will allow them entry when their work there is done?
ISIS has been ISIL for at least a month now. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria changed to the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant. This is significant as they are trying to create a Muslim Caliphate over the governments of the entire region.
Yeah, because Christianity is truly the religion of peace. Tell that to:
the NLFT (a Christian organisation likely supported through weapons and finance from the Baptist Church of Tripura), Roman Catholic terorists in the same area, anti-Balaka Christian militants in the Central African Republicl killing Muslim civilians, Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati assassinated on behalf of Christians(potentially even the head of the local World Vision chapter) - he claimed Christian missionaries had attacked him eight times, the NSCN - a Christian group engaging in religious violence and also indulging in terrorist activities varying from kidnapping, illegal drug trafficking, extortion, etc, not to mention the ethnic cleansing of Kuki tribes in Manipur , displacing around 100,000 people and killing more than 900.
Maronite Christian militias massacred Palestinians and Lebanese muslim during the 1975-1990 civil war, as well as in 1982 where they targeted unarmed Palestinian refugees for rape and murder. That's considered to be genocide by the UN General Assembly. A Christian group engaged in genocide, truly the act of the One True Faith, the True Religion of Peace.
Romania has (and had) the Iron Guard and the LÄfncieri, anti-semitic and fascist Christian groups.
The Lord's Resistance Army. The Ku Klux Klan, a Christian terrorist organisation. The Army of God, a terrorist organisation who murder doctors that don't follow their beliefs on abortion. Lambs of Christ, Christian Identity, Christian Patriot. Concerned Christians, a group of Christians deported from Israel because they felt they would get into heaven if they attacked holy sites in Jerusalem in 1999. Hutaree, a group planning to use IEDs. The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord, Defensive Action, The Freemen Community.
These are all Christian terrorist groups. As I said above, truly the one true religion of peace.
Pull the other one.
They've been just IS for some time now. And if I'm not mistaken, the last S in ISIS stands for Sham, which is Arabic for Levant. And they claim that the Caliphate has been established.
Democracy is for the people; you only vote once per season and we'll do the rest of the work for you don't have to.
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I'm not sure Obama can politically afford to get too carried away with bombing ISIS. Whether it is true or not, there is plenty of talk that Obama allowed this to happen by not keeping troops in Iraq longer. He blames the Iraqi government for not updating the SOFA agreements but people have been claiming that Hillary (presumable under Obama's orders) kept increasing demands that couldn't be met by the Iraqi government. He then declared his campaign promise has been realized and ended the war on terror to boot.
So how does he go back and say the war on terror is not over, how does he come back and say we need to go back into Iraq after claiming the people foreseeing this were nutters, how does he do this without giving credibility to all those decrying our exist from the world or who said if we did not lead in Syria, something evil would fill the void. The problem is, he seems to believe that if we mind our own business, the world will not hate us, will not want to kill us, and situations like this will not exist.
Now I will admit that all that may not be 100% true, but it is the perception people are getting and it is the perception he seems to be afraid of when he has to acknowledge his foreign policy was a failure, that his plans for peace didn't work. This is what he is up with, he is either claimed to be wrong on everything and allow it to happen, or he has to admit he was wrong and do something about it that goes against what he seems to believe.
I dropped that comic because it does appear that he is more occupied playing golf than the problems in the world. But to be fair, if you can golf somewhat well, it is a relaxing and peaceful time in which you can actually think things through. This is probably why so much business gets done on the gold course.
Drone target-selection via popular vote on Reddit in 3, 2, 1....
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
I used this technique a few years ago to find a CIA detention centre in Afghanistan called "The Salt Pit". A satellite imaging company showed images but without coordinates (at government request). I had Google Earth and looked at the colors and images carefully. It took about 45 minutes, but I found it and posted the exact lon/lat to Wikipedia. They didn't turn me down.
Well he can't run for re-election and that tends to let second term Presidents do things they normally wouldn't do for fear of negatively impacting the next election. The world cannot continue using the earlier Iraqi and Afghanistan wars as an excuse to completely oppose all potential military involvement in any future situation. When making the decision on whether to commit military forces each situation needs to be evaluated separately and on it's own merits. The ISIS threat needs to be destroyed using any means possible. US air support, spec ops teams, and military advisers are working with both the Iraqi and Kurdish ground forces. It's a low risk strategy for the US military and the Iraqi and Kurd ground forces are doing the lions share of the fighting and dying. After all it's their country and their people. In the past the US provided a no-fly zone to protect the Kurds from retaliation by Saddam Hussein after the 1991 Iraqi War. The people in that region are probably the only ones in the world who actually has a favorable opinion on the US. That fact alone is reason enough to try and help them now. Normally I don't think the US should get involved in any military conflicts unless US interests are realistically and directly threatened. There is currently no country in the world worth the loss of even one US soldier. However, in this particular case I am willing to set that requirement aside and support the destruction of a truly despicable group of serial killers.
You gotta start somewhere, with some people....
What's the appropriate response to that, American Exceptionalist?
Sooo many Americans that learned sooo little from the Iraq invasion. Easily manipulated once, shame on them, easily manipulated twice, shame on you.