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Russia Posts Video Game Screenshot As 'Irrefutable Proof' of US Helping IS (bbc.com)
Plus1Entropy shares a report from BBC, adding: "But when I asked Putin, he said they didn't do it": Russia's Ministry of Defense has posted what it called "irrefutable proof" of the U.S. aiding so-called Islamic State -- but one of the images was actually taken from a video game. The ministry claimed the image showed an IS convoy leaving a Syrian town last week aided by U.S. forces. Instead, it came from the smartphone game AC-130 Gunship Simulator: Special Ops Squadron. The ministry said an employee had mistakenly attached the photo. The Conflict Intelligence Team fact-checking group said the other four provided were also errors, taken from a June 2016 video which showed the Iraqi Air Force attacking IS in Iraq. The video game image seems to be taken from a promotional video on the game's website and YouTube channel, closely cropped to omit the game controls and on-screen information. In the corner of the image, however, a few letters of the developer's disclaimer can still be seen: "Development footage. This is a work in progress. All content subject to change."
we can't be friends?
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I bet if you look carefully you'll see Mr. Seth Rich running for his life, chased by goons hired by the DNC. Nice.
"irrefutable proof"
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
... the game edits the evidence footage.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
The moderation is incredibly partisan. All Republicans promptly get modded down to -1. Can anyone justify this, or why it's reasonable?
Makes you say many things.
We can recognize Russian deflection.
Seriously, a still from a video game? Amateur hour, Ivan.
Please tell me the leftist moderator censoring all the pro-Republican posts has run out of mod points? Seriously, why does Slashdot allow moderators to engage in miniature reign of terror?
https://youtu.be/LFwGvk3k6WM
Is Baghdad Bob drinking vodka these days?
https://youtu.be/KmwZk21uJlg
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Well there are many similarities 'tween Sad Vlad the Mad and Vizzini
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I am in wallow with my inner money grubbing capitalistic pig. ... Oink!
Hey! You already got your box of Cracker Jacks and your balloon, so just shut up!
Breaking news komrade, the Democrats aren't in charge. If there was something to find I have no doubt Twitler would be all over this like a pig on shit. Guess there's nothing there after all.
Until we won't even be able to prove it's fake.
Reality is a slackware box running on a 386 tucked away in god's sock drawer.
'Oh this was just an accident any government could make. Putin really isn't that bad.'
It looks like the Russians lie almost as much as the Americans.
You two keep making shit up, it's funny for the rest of us.
You guys are so gay, lol.
We were just giving arms to the "moderate rebels" that found their way into the hands of ISIS. Totally different.
Ivan was later pummeled and entire family forced to receive anal torture
when someone is slacking off playing a video game and a supervisor walks in on them.
What the hell are you doing?
Look at this video I uncovered!
Play that again.
Yes sir!
Darndest internet.
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
Headquarters of AC-130 Gunship Simulator: Special Ops Squadron game:
"THANK YOU, GOD!"
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
I cannot think a ministry can be so stupid to do that while being aware of the game source. It is obvious it will be quickly debunked.
That suggests someone tricked him. Is it a new method to get rid of a ministry?
At least these "proof" videos are at a higher resolution than the Nork propaganda videos... lol. Both are fake news, just one is a better looking fake.
The democrats invented shit out of lint and pixie dust and blamed it all on the russians.
Why not a video game?
video games play you!
I can't wait until the Russians see what kind of military hardware we have in other video games. They are going to be totally scared.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Absolutly!
I am armed because I am free. I am free because I am armed.
The Russians are total amateurs. This is how you do world-class incompetence.
It's going to be really hard to find the truth about US foreign policy during the Obama administration. After all, the truth about the IS and Benghazi was likely in Hillary's emails. When will the Democrats finally allow a special prosecutor to be appointed to find out about the content of those emails and other crimes committed by Hillary?
I guess the 7 inquiries into Benghazi already completed by the Republicans were thwarted by Hillary's incredible Ninja training. Either that or you're just an asshole.
No worse than the Iranians and their fake drones, or the North Koreans and their fake planes.
Can you imagine Hannity and Cavuto picking up on it.... "proof of deep state Hlllary supporters"...."see Russia are our friends"...."collusion all lies of deep state"...
THEN would have been the time to discover the fake. AFTER they've dug themselves into that hole.
Once again, those sanctions against Russia that Trump was required to implement? The deadline passed and Trump hasn't passed the order down for implementation. The traitor needs to be impeached.
For some time now, in fact. It's just not something that articles seen on /. would addres
Breitbart is showing video footage from Wolfenstein 2 as proof that Antifa is violent.
You are welcome on my lawn.
This story is all about the poor standard of Russian propaganda and yet here you are doubling down.
https://nytimes.com/2014/09/12/world/middleeast/try-as-he-may-john-mccain-cant-shake-falsehoods-about-ties-to-isis.html
om nom nom
They are incredibly good at creating U and D in particular.
As if you'd need pictures to proof that ISIS is the direct result of the US fucking up the near east for decades.
The BBC has since admitted that its own investigation confirmed what the russians have long claimed: that is, ISIL combatants were evacuated from the besieged city of Raqqa under US/UK/kurdish protection and transported in trucks, with all their weapons to other syrian frontlines to continue fighting the Assad regime troops. Even the BBC calls this a dirty pact, as seen here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/raqqas_dirty_secret
Thus the issue of incorrect russian screenshots is no longer important at all. On the other hand, russians got a bit pissed off about the above mentioned trick and sent a few Kalibr cruise missiles and six Tu-22 bomber's load towards ISIL bases, reportedly killing a lot of wahhabite jihadists and several CIA "advisors" if syrian accounts are to be trusted.
You need any more proof that the US has been helping ISIS?
The Syrian army / air force would have been a huge obstacle to ISIS moving into Syria, had ISIS not gotten air support from the USA and NATO. All because someone decided that Assad was a bad guy (ok, any dictator is per definition, but there are many of those in the Middle East).
Most recently, Trump avenged an Syrian attack on ISIS and a top Al Qaeda person by having 59 cruise missiles fired against a Syrian air base.
it was quickly shown to be pictures of a murdered Afghan citizen of similar appearance, with more blood painted on top. Russia is definitely taking cues from America.
And besides, what more proof do we need that America is supporting a terrorist organisation in their proxy war play? You have to be dumb to still think otherwise.
does anyone pay attention to whats happening in the former united states of america anymore?
well, thereâ(TM)s the republic of california, and wall street. other than that, not really.
Flashmob on Russian site https://meduza.io/shapito/2017...
1 - the IS fighters were not 'evacuated'
2 - they were told not to take 'all their weapons'
3 - when you're about to capture a city and there's a chance to avoid further bloodshed, including civilian life, you do the decent fucking thing and negotiate.
This happens all the fucking time in war. Unless you have no care for civilian welfare, in which case you get Grozny. Hardly an example to which to aspire.
Thus the issue of incorrect russian screenshots is no longer important at all.
Sorry, not allowing that deflection. The Russians lie again. Pathetic lying shits, continually caught in their lies, continually demonstrating that they can't be trusted when it comes international affairs (and thus even less so their own).
Does Putin get up each morning, phone his ministers and demand, "More lies! Today I want new lies!" ?
Seriously? No one gets the above pun?
I got it, I'm just not a very big fan of puns. Besides, any time I think of absolut, I kind of want to vomit. I had an incident with it back in college.
#1. Post obvious fake news.
#2. See who retweets and shares it.
#3. Update DB of extremely gullible people.
#4. Focus subsequent propaganda better.
#5. Profit!
Every end has half a stick.
50 years from now children will ask their parents: "Who was Hillary, and why are we still investigating her?"
This is the new game developed for crowdsourcing missions for the US AC-130 Drone Squadron.
Or your sarcasm detector is malfunctioning.
This is the most fun we've had since Russia posted a photo of them planting a flag on an undersea Arctic oil field that was actually from a movie. Which was the most fun we've had since Russia posted a photo of a jet shooting down the commercial flight over the Ukraine taken from a satellite hundreds of miles up, with the jet's relative size over the ground indicating it was flying about 200 miles above the Earth.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
So tell me then, why was the US diplomatic/CIA annex attacked?
Who attacked them?
What was the attackers' relationship with the US prior to the attack?
Who did Ambassador Stevens meet with just prior to the attack?
Why was this group not attacked?
These are real, pertinent questions that were never answered by the Obama administration or covered by the mainstream media - or for that matter, delved into deeply by the various Congressional investigations conducted by Republicans because many of them were aware and knew the answers behind those questions and they aren't answers that would go over well with the American people.
why was the US diplomatic/CIA annex attacked?
Because they were US buildings that the radicals could target easily.
Who attacked them?
Ansar al-Sharia
What was the attackers' relationship with the US prior to the attack?
Hostile.
Who did Ambassador Stevens meet with just prior to the attack?
A Turkish diplomat
Why was this group not attacked?
Turkey is an ally of the US, Ansar al-Sharia was attacked.
It was all over the news after Obama was elected: an "unprecedented act of bipartisan cooperation" was portrayed for weeks straight with little other in the way of headlines when Obama sent McCain to the mideast to negotiate an arms deal involving millions of dollars in military weapons. The people they were dealing with were the same ones which became ISIS. This was in turn memory-holed, but it happened. ISIS is and always has been a US puppet organization meant to destabilize the mideast and drive oil costs down. Not that it matters, the Saudis funded 9/11 and Vegas, they deserve worse.
Seriously? No one gets the above pun?
Absolut is from Sweden.
why did congress cut the security budget for the State department? that is the real question
Thanks, Syria and Russia for you know, fighting Al Qaeda and stuff. Why the US and NATO thought "Al Qaeda : good guys ; ISIS : bad guys" was a good idea, I don't know. Well, I sort of know.
Now, the west is butthurt that Syria won so the media tries not to mention it. Would be hilarious if Putin gets a Nobel prize once it's over.
Although now the Saudi are whining and there's a Saudi/Israel/Al Qaeda/US alliance of losers that cry because not enough people got killed. Fuck you, obscurantist losers. How comes Hizbollah does a better job at fighting terrorism than US/Israel?
That's not the reason there wasn't security at the Benghazi annex. That was a tactical decision by State because they didn't want it to appear we didn't trust our "allies" in Libya. Prior to the Benghazi attack, the general feeling was that the jihadi militias were on our side since we had just helped them overthrow Qaddafi. Furthermore, we were using similar jihadis as part of Presidential Directive 11 in Syria for the same intended effect (regime change). In fact, that was what Ambassador Stevens and the Turkish delegation had just met about - the transfer of weapons from Libya to Syria to overthrow Assad.
Russia usually gets their proof by taking screenshots of World Of Tanks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Does Putin get up each morning, phone his ministers and demand, "More lies! Today I want new lies!" ?
That's not really how Russia works -- it operates on the illusion of the decentralization of power. Instead, Putin wakes up in the morning and muses publicly "Boy, it sure would be nice if there were a lot more reports about the truth about the US helping IS, hint hint." Everyone else gets the message and runs with it, lest they get raided and brought up by Russian authorities on "anti-corruption" charges. Then when they're caught, Putin can say "I gave no such order to manufacture stories about IS. I only hoped that the truth would be revealed. That is fake news."