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Is This Story A Piece Of Disinformation?
If 'selfies' from ISIS supporters were actually helpful to the American air force would they be telling the world about it?
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It was probably a one off. It will not be a method that they can deploy often.
ISIS are very information technology sussed. They use social media as a propaganda weapon. There will be strict rules about not revealing locations and identities. In this case, one wally has ignored the protocol and revealed where they were.
The US will be constantly monitoring all communications and will have pinpointed enemy positions many times from conventional radio transmissions.
So the story is largely for propaganda purposes, and revealing someone from the compound had uploaded a selfie, will not hamper future strikes.
ISIS are very information technology sussed. They use social media as a propaganda weapon. There will be strict rules about not revealing locations and identities. In this case, one wally has ignored the protocol and revealed where they were.
The US will be constantly monitoring all communications and will have pinpointed enemy positions many times from conventional radio transmissions.
So the story is largely for propaganda purposes, and revealing someone from the compound had uploaded a selfie, will not hamper future strikes.
When a war is on, and we are at war it is just a different style, propaganda is required on both sides to keep moral up.
So what better way than to put out something like this that most people are aware of. You have given nothing away as such but provided a positive news story.
Unless one is a member of the anti West brigade of course, in which case you may well see it in a different view.
So what better way than to put out something like this that most people are aware of. You have given nothing away as such but provided a positive news story.
Unless one is a member of the anti West brigade of course, in which case you may well see it in a different view.
It seems this works both ways.
I found reference to this little publicised incident...
// When a new fleet of helicopters arrived with an aviation unit at a base in Iraq, some Soldiers took pictures on the flightline, he said. From the photos that were uploaded to the Internet, the enemy was able to determine the exact location of the helicopters inside the compound and conduct a mortar attack, destroying four of the AH-64 Apache Helicopters. //
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I found reference to this little publicised incident...
// When a new fleet of helicopters arrived with an aviation unit at a base in Iraq, some Soldiers took pictures on the flightline, he said. From the photos that were uploaded to the Internet, the enemy was able to determine the exact location of the helicopters inside the compound and conduct a mortar attack, destroying four of the AH-64 Apache Helicopters. //
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Maybe not disinformation after all.
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OMG you dont mean that Doughnut shaped building like the Pentagon only er round just off the M5 at Glos ? oops
Presumably Isis has guessed what had happened and banned selfies before the story broke.
I always thought the way they tracked down the Balcombe St gang 1973 ( see wiki ) by drenching London with plain clothes police cars and oops hey one just found itself tracking an IRA active service unit on its way to bomb somewhere - - I always thought was suspicious ....
Presumably Isis has guessed what had happened and banned selfies before the story broke.
I always thought the way they tracked down the Balcombe St gang 1973 ( see wiki ) by drenching London with plain clothes police cars and oops hey one just found itself tracking an IRA active service unit on its way to bomb somewhere - - I always thought was suspicious ....
Colonel Purnell and the patrolling PS were both uniformed officers.They were in the Duty Officers car as Inspetor Purnell was the D/O.All police GP cars and D/O's cars were unmarked and were Hillman Minx's at the time.They were fitted with a radio and a bell.Nothing else to distinguish them from a civilian car. Insp Purnell was patrolling his patch (Paddington Green) when the bombers car was chased along Lisson Grove prior to bailing out and running to Balcome St. Nothing to be suspicious about .Good fortuitous policing. I served at the original and new Paddington Green for the beginning of my service. Insp (Colonel) Purnell was my relief D/O.
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