Sergei Skripal 'hitmen' linked to GRU officer's plot to assassinate Montenegrin Prime Minister
Oh man, now these two are in for it!!!
The Russian hitmen accused of poisoning Sergei Skripal have been linked to the plot to assassinate the Montenegrin Prime Minister.
The cover passports of Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov were issued in the same batch as the passport of Col. Eduard Shishmakov, the GRU officer accused of masterminding the failed coup in October 2016.
The findings suggest that the passports have been issued to aliases by a special authority to a group of military intelligence officers.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/20/sergei-skripal-hitmen-linked...
Now you might ask, where is this proof coming from? From the same place that a lot of this crazy is coming from..,
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In November 2013, The New Yorker’s Patrick Radden Keefe called Eliot Higgins, an unemployed man from Leicester, England, “perhaps the foremost expert on the munitions used in the war” in Syria. As leading authorities go, Higgins, who used to blog under the pseudonym Brown Moses, is an unlikely one. He has never been to Syria or any other war zone. Yet he consistently identified which weapons were being used by which side (or rebel group) through the meticulous appraisal of photographs, satellite images, and YouTube videos, and the use of social media to seek information when he was uncertain. His work on the rocket fired into Ghouta in August 2013, widely remembered in the United States as the chemical attack that violated Barack Obama’s “red line,” was cited in a report on the incident by Human Rights Watch and helped prove that the culprit was almost certainly the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
At the end of The New Yorker piece, Higgins is quoted as saying, about whether others could emulate the model he has established, “Believe me, there are a lot of obsessive people out there who could probably put their passions to a more productive use.” His new project, a website called “Bellingcat,” initially funded via Kickstarter this summer, will give him a chance to prove his point. Higgins, who now publishes under his real name, is its most prolific contributor, but most of the other authors use similar investigate methods. While he says that the site gets as many as half a million visitors on high-traffic days, he adds, “I’m more interested in who reads it than how many.” In this sense, the site’s tagline, “by and for citizen investigative journalists,” is telling: Bellingcat articles are not noteworthy for their literary artistry or for an aspiration to mass digital appeal. They generally are rigorous, evidence-based examinations of extremely specific questions, such as the geolocation of the “June Russian Buk Convoy in Millerovo.”
https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/bellingcat_brown_moses.php
They’re a bunch of bloggers. Internet’s trollers. LIKE US! THIS is where a lot of the ‘information’ about RUSSIA! is coming from. And TPTB and the media pass it off as ‘gospel’. As verification of all this insane propaganda about them pesky Commie bastids.
Here’s their Fearless Leader:
Eliot Ward Higgins (born January 1979), who previously used the pseudonym Brown Moses, is a British citizen journalist and blogger, known for inaugurating open-sources and social media for investigations. He helped to investigate the Syrian Civil War, 2014–15 Russian military intervention in Ukraine, the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and the Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal. He first gained mainstream media attention by identifying weapons in uploaded videos from the Syrian conflict.[1][2] He is the founder of Bellingcat, a website for citizen journalists to investigate current events using open-source information such as videos, maps and pictures.
[1]. Weaver, Matthew (21 March 2013). "How Brown Moses exposed Syrian arms trafficking from his front room". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
[2]. Keefe, Patrick Radden (25 November 2013). "Rocket Man". The New Yorker. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
Hey! We could do that. We do do that. And we don’t have an ‘agenda’ to push! Of course that’s also our problem. But we could do Webinars and charge for our expertise. We don’t do ads, so why not dazzle the world with our brilliance? All we need is access to the internet and time (which some of us have to spare in abundance) and WE too can become experts in world affairs. And war. And spies. And everything RUSSIAN!!!
Now back ack to our Dastardly Duo:
Bellingcat also claimed to have been provided information from sources in a Western European law-enforcement agency that the two men had previously been arrested in the Netherlands.
Sources told the Telegraph that they had no record of these arrests taking place.
Hmmm. That doesn’t sound good. You’d think somebody would have some paperwork on that, wouldn’t you? Anyway, here’s proof of it all...
It has now emerged that there are only 26 intervening passport numbers between Petrov's document and the cover passport for Col Shishmakov, who was organising the coup before the Montenegro's elections in October 2016 under the alias Eduard Shirokov.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/20/sergei-skripal-hitmen-linked...
There’s no proof stated for any of this, and what documentation there is is laughable because you have to accept the word of a bunch of bloggers that what they say is true, as in “It has emerged...”
I was curious as to exactly where a lot of this propaganda was coming from. Now I know. Now I’m just working on a plan where we can tap into this racket.
Any suggestions?
Comments
Bellingcat was also dead wrong about the rocket in Ghouta.
It did not have the range, accuracy, payload or a sophisticated enough "bursting" warhead to distribute enough sarin to have killed the number of people claimed or to have been launched from "regime controlled territory" as indicated on the State Department map. Here it is all laid out at legacy DK. Please note the exchange that runs the thread with "Claudius Bombarnac."
About 3 months later, my conclusions were confirmed by a study published by MIT Professor Theodore A. Postol. Available at as .pdf: https://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/possible-implications-of-bad-intelli...
The lead comment at Bellingcat says it all about this evidence
that relies upon copies of passport files that could only have been obtained by someone inside the Russian government or were simply manufactured by someone who isn't. There is no way to verify the provenance of the documents in question.
Bellingcat aka Elliot Higgins is nothing more than a charlatan
Moon of Alabama sums up the staged attention the western MSM gives amateur citizen investigator Elliot Higgins, in a post entitled, “Media’s Beloved “Expert” Eliot Higgins – Wrong Again And Again And Again."
Eliot Higgins aka Brown Moses, the founder of Bellingcat is an indispensable propaganda tool for NATO media. Higgins is always able to prove through amateur “analysis” of open source data that the Russians did indeed do the bad thing that happened.
Blogger Elliot Higgins' (aka Bellingcat) amateurish MH17 reports has been debunked everywhere. Not only have his methods been criticised by real experts and actual scientists, but now Higgins’ real identity as a neocon, Atlantic Council stooge are being brought to light.
Higgins has been adopted as an expert by the Atlantic Council and is one of the coauthors of a key anti-Putin report by the Council leadership which was published on May 28. He had found his nitch as an evidence-free anti-Russian propaganda mouthpiece for NATO, the US, and UK.
Suggestion:
Bellingcat's bullshit was first deconstructed in this visual tweet stream:
https://twitter.com/elenaevdokimov7/status/1040764359998230528
It has since been widely incorporated in other blogs.
Here's the accompanying text:
Read Elena Evdokimova's Twitter feed to stay abreast of the attempted propaganda.
https://twitter.com/elenaevdokimov7