Wednesday, September 18, 2013

About Brown Moses Syria Weapons Watcher

About Brown Moses Syria Weapons Watcher




Is this his youtube channel? 
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheBrownmoses/videos

Collected Media And Links Of Munitions Linked To Alleged Chemical Attacks In Syria

Over the past weeks I've been collecting videos and images of munitions used in the alleged chemical attacks in Damascus on August 21st.  To encourage discussion and investigation of the material found so far I'm posting all the links to various galleries and playlists I've created, useful links, as well as some of the interesting images that need some further investigation.

Here are my blog posts on the subject of the August 21st attack, in date order.

A Mystery Munition - Syrian Army DIY Rockets?
DIY Weapon Linked To Alleged Chemical Weapon Attack in Adra, Damascus
Are These The Munitions Used In Today's Alleged Chemical Weapon Attack?
More Videos Emerge Of Chemical Attack Linked Mystery Munitions
Were The UN Inspectors Examining A Chemical Weapon In Medmah Al Sham?
Video Shows Assad's Forces Loading, Firing, Munition Linked To Chemical Attacks
Video Showing The High Explosive Variant Of The Chemical Attack Linked Munition
Photographs Showing Measurements Of The Munition Linked To Alleged Chemical Attacks
A Detailed Summary Of The Evidence On Munitions Linked To The August 21st Attacks
UN Inspectors Examine The Unidentified Munitions Linked To Alleged Chemical Attacks (UMLACAs)
The Mystery Component Of The UMLACA
Why The UN Report On Chemical Weapons In Syria Isn't Just About August 21st
Who Was Responsible For The August 21st Attack?
An Examination Of Videos Claiming Liwa Al-Islam Were Responsible For the August 21st Sarin Attack

Arms expert Nic Jenzen-Jones has also written to detailed and excellent posts on the subject
Preliminary analysis of alleged CW munitions used in Syria
Alleged CW munitions in Syria fired from Iranian Falaq-2 type launchers

My other posts on chemical weapons in Syria can be found here.

The August 21st Damascus attack Youtube playlist - Videos from the attack, including graphic images of victims.
UN Investigation in Damascus August 26th-27th Youtube playlist - I believe the 27th videos might be mislabeled, and actually took place on the 26th.
UN Investigation in Damascus August 28th Youtube playlist
UN Investigation in Damascus August 29th Youtube playlist
UN Investigation in Damascus undated Youtube playlist

M14 140mm artillery rocket Youtube playlist - Videos showing the M14 140mm artillery rocket, including videos of it being inspected by the UN.
Syrian Government Chemical Attack Linked Rocket Youtube playlist - All videos of the munition linked to alleged chemical attacks.  It's suspected that their might be two sizes of these rockets, and at least two payload types.
Photographs of the rockets used in the attack on August 21st
ITV's photographs of the rockets used in the attack on August 21st
Close up images of the rockets used in the August 21st attack

Here's a list of videos showing rockets, grouped by date, then individual rockets

January 4th Daraya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68YeijuMHec

June 11th Adra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HylX8OiczHk

August 2nd Khalidiya, Homs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThtLIc0iEzc

August 5th Adra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLcqi_dE9SU

August 5th Adra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0lzUvozF1c

August 5th Adra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzhhhv3uHio

August 21st Eastern Ghouta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kllhsgFrgN0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc6xL-N6f5M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2uBpDxAoJA

August 21st Eastern Ghouta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16qFgAfM5jg

August 21st Zamalka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FilC4CIvWk

September 3rd Homs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SticZDmbaO8


Topics

  • nsnbc
  • RussiaToday
  • SyriaDeeply In just one year, Higgins has watched his Brown Moses Blog become a must-read for journalists and analysts covering the crisis. He specializes in breaking news about new weapons being used in the conflict, usually by regime forces.
  • Youtube

Opposition

  • NSNBC:  larger diameter rockets (140mm and 330mm) have not been seen (by him) in the hands of terrorists 
  • RussiaToday: blogger is a staunch critic of Damascus and Bashar al Assad's regime and in the past he has monitored all sorts of news sources and claims and counter claims emerging from the Syrian Civil War to use it as a stick to beat the Assad Government with and implicate Assad in all sorts of atrocities. 
..nsnbc
http://nsnbc.me/2013/09/18/5-lies-invented-spin-un-report-syrian-chemical-weapons-attack/Chemical weapons were delivered with munitions not used by rebels: This claim includes referencing “Syria watcher” Eliot Higgins also known as “Brown Moses,” a UK-based armchair observer of the Syrian crisis who has been documenting weapons used throughout the conflict on his blog. While Higgins explains these particularly larger diameter rockets (140mm and 330mm) have not been seen (by him) in the hands of terrorists operating within and along Syria’s borders, older posts of his show rockets similar in construction and operation, but smaller, most certainly in the hands of the militants.


..Russia Today

he blogger is a staunch critic of Damascus and a staunch critic of President Bashar al Assad's regime and in the past he has monitored all sorts of news sources and claims and counter claims emerging from the Syrian Civil War to use it as a stick to beat the Assad Government with and implicate Assad in all sorts of atrocities. 


This has not stopped Russia Today using the credibility of my blog to give credence to this videos.  This is a transcript of their 10am BST broadcast
Thabang Motsei - ......Meanwhile a prominent Syrian blogger known as Black Moses has posted footage allegedly showing chemical weapons being used by rebels. Let's get the details from our correspondent Paul Scott here in the studio. "
Paul Scott - The blogger is a staunch critic of Damascus and a staunch critic of President Bashar al Assad's regime and in the past he has monitored all sorts of news sources and claims and counter claims emerging from the Syrian Civil War to use it as a stick to beat the Assad Government with and implicate Assad in all sorts of atrocities. But it is interesting now that he has posted a video on this blog that suggests that it actually could be the Syrian Opposition that had been using these chemical weapons. It represent a slight shift in focus from what the narrative that the blog has been taking in recent weeks.
Thabang Motsei - So this Brown Moses that we were talking about what are experts saying where the rebels could have obtained these chemicals from. 
To be absolutely clear, I do not consider these videos to be reliable evidence of anything.  They came from irregular sources, and are filmed in a way not consistent with videos posted previously by Liwa al-Islam, among other issues.  I do not support Russia Today's use of the credibility of my work to prop up videos I consider to be highly dubious.  I believe all credible evidence points to the Syrian military being responsible for the August 21st attack, and have produced large amounts of work examining the evidence that supports that conclusion, which can be found here.

The later 11am broadcast also uses my blog to give credence to these dubious videos



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