What open source information is out there about the MH17 shootdown? Do the rebels have the Buk missile system that reportedly downed the aircraft? How has open source analysis helped analysts fact check the Kremlin’s claims about the shooting down of MH17? And what does all of this have to do with a billboard?
Today, Aaron and Jeffrey talk all things open source and the downing of MH17.
Jeffrey and Aaron discussed a number of articles, videos, and images during the podcast:
Jeffrey Lewis, “Keep Us in the Loop,” Foreign Policy, September 5, 2013.
Eliot Higgins, “Geolocating the Missile Launcher Linked to the Downing of MH17,” July 17, 2014.
Eliot Higgins, “Identifying the Location of the MH17 Linked Missile Launcher From One Photograph,” Bellingcat, July 18, 2014.
Eliot Higgins, “Evidence That Russian Claims About The MH17 Buk Missile Launcher Are False,” Bellingcat, July 22, 2014.
Eliot Higgins, “Evidence That Russian Claims About The MH17 Buk Missile Launcher Are False,” Bellingcat, July 22, 2014.
“How to find the missing Buk system,” KoreanDefense.com, July 19, 2014.
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The missile plume discussed during the podcast
Aaron, you say the OSINT on MH17 is the best you’ve ever seen, but I would still hold out for Jeffrey finding where North Korea modified the Chinese trucks into TELs.
http://38north.org/2014/02/jlewis020314/
All he had was 13 seconds of a YouTube video from the INSIDE of a building. He had me model the building from the inside-out, then found it on Google Earth using its unusual shape and crowd-sourced wikis.
Amazing!