tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post2105612825271431854..comments2024-03-18T22:03:28.458-07:00Comments on Monitor on Massacre Marketing: Monitor Mahmoud Unravels the Quds1 Sarin-Chlorine Serial Murder Plot Caustic Logichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03082923821952309709noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-79854591965228120262019-07-13T01:35:25.794-07:002019-07-13T01:35:25.794-07:00Hasna now reported to be dead
https://www.washing...Hasna now reported to be dead<br /><br />https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the-secret-app-that-gives-syrian-civilians-minutes-to-escape-airstrikes/2018/08/17/e91e66be-9cbf-11e8-b55e-5002300ef004_story.html?utm_term=.3c4da124860c<br /><br />Paywalled but here<br />https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/the-secret-app-that-gives-syrian-civilians-minutes-to-escape-airstrikes.30698/<br /><br />"On April 4, 2017, one spotter, Mahmoud al-Hasna, caught a radio signal between a pilot and a command center on his handheld walkie talkie, and it sent shock waves through the network. He had been tracking the squadron commander for months, and he knew that the plane only ran one kind of mission.<br /><br />“Guys, it has chemicals with it, I am sure of that,” he radioed out, according to a transcript from the day. His panic rose with each new message.<br /><br /><br />“Guys, tell people to wear masks.”<br /><br />“There is another aircraft behind it.”<br /><br />Minutes later, the warplanes dropped nerve gas on the northern town of Khan Sheikhoun, and scores of civilians suffered agonizing deaths. Many were killed in their sleep.<br /><br />Jaeger said it was unclear whether Hala saved lives during this attack, which took place during the system’s rollout phase. “I wish more people could have received our warning that day,” he said.<br /><br /><b>In May of this year, the Hala team learned that Hasna had been killed in his hometown, Kafranbel, in Idlib province.</b>"<br /><br /><br />Certainly an 'interesting' relationship here with the White Helmets<br /><br />https://imgur.com/KlRdmZ3<br /><br />https://twitter.com/2ndNewMoon/status/1149813799890903040Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12749505072348356868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-2916387692186560942018-11-26T10:58:01.089-08:002018-11-26T10:58:01.089-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12749505072348356868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-18254416927156781862018-02-14T13:48:29.730-08:002018-02-14T13:48:29.730-08:00Worth noting - Hasna is, once again, witness to a ...Worth noting - Hasna is, once again, witness to a 'chemical attack' (on what looks to be a mostly empty field on the edge of Saraqeb)<br /><br />http://sn4hr.org/wp-content/pdf/english/Syrian_Regime%E2%80%99s_Chemical_Terrorism_Hits_Syrians_for_the_211th_Time_en.pdfAndrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-84472920547561411832017-10-21T06:45:31.304-07:002017-10-21T06:45:31.304-07:00..and then doing circles over Khan Sheikhoun at 6:.....and then doing circles over Khan Sheikhoun at 6:47 am<br /><br />https://twitter.com/Sentry_Syria/status/849106234837958656<br /><br />No sighting at 6:37 then...!Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-37201626431166116772017-10-21T06:43:01.408-07:002017-10-21T06:43:01.408-07:00Actually nevermind - I was thrown by showing as 3r...Actually nevermind - I was thrown by showing as 3rd April on twitter. Must be this<br /><br />https://twitter.com/Sentry_Syria/status/849101307617083392Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-8718154556287160482017-10-21T06:37:59.321-07:002017-10-21T06:37:59.321-07:00Or looking at timestamp must be later (UTC+3 6:21 ...Or looking at timestamp must be later (UTC+3 6:21 pm?) and no messages at all for the earlier time? Why no messages for that morning?<br />Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-3539733040300945742017-10-21T06:20:43.029-07:002017-10-21T06:20:43.029-07:00Small question: HRW has the sentry message recordi...Small question: HRW has the sentry message recording at 6:26 am<br /><br />Would these be the corresponding Syria Sentry messages:<br /><br />https://twitter.com/Sentry_Syria/status/849280788139048960<br />https://twitter.com/Sentry_Syria/status/849281486582935552<br /><br />6:21 am and 6:24 am? The 6:26 am recording HRW has wasn't actually the first warning about planes taking off (these are earlier)?Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-45555160384825045972017-10-15T06:25:58.154-07:002017-10-15T06:25:58.154-07:00The Orient News article you refer to that says the...The Orient News article you refer to that says the plane "carries Quds 1 banner" also says at the bottom:<br /><br />"The observatories operating in the provinces of Hama and Idlib countryside were able to intercept the aviation talks with the operations room of the airport, decipher the code and determine the area the Assad warplane bombed."<br /><br />http://www.orient-news.net/en/news_show/134606/Perpetrator-of-second-largest-chemical-attack-in-Syria-identifiedAndrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-12880082949537639292017-10-02T02:39:54.823-07:002017-10-02T02:39:54.823-07:00Are there any examples of a typical Su-22 attack r...Are there any examples of a typical Su-22 attack run that go directly over the camera?<br /><br />I have doubts but just to see how possible the supposed 'stealth attack at 6:37 am without waking people' really is? They don't seem particularly stealthy but not sure if videos like this are really representative of a 'sarin bombing run' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wJfA-9TpxMAndrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-91631619090124690162017-10-02T01:51:57.038-07:002017-10-02T01:51:57.038-07:00Could be but 4072 is 25 minutes later and 4065, 40...Could be but 4072 is 25 minutes later and 4065, 4067 do look to have been taken within seconds of each other. Other RFS photos have no meta data at all so I think probably from the camera? <br /><br />Unless RFS are randomly attaching the wrong date and time to some imported photos instead of importing the original data from the camera - which would be an odd system but always possible I suppose. <br /><br />It is the same problem as the Abdullah Reuters photos that have been put into Fotostation, even if they look right it's only ever going to be a rough guide. <br /><br />Can say for sure though that these were not taken on April 3rd at midday (if location is right)Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-34992892943890778862017-09-30T19:55:26.685-07:002017-09-30T19:55:26.685-07:00General comments on Syrian airforce.
As you noted...General comments on Syrian airforce.<br /><br />As you noted, the SyAAF don't conduct night raids using either fixed or rotary wing aircraft. This is significant in the claim helicopters bombed the Aleppo aid convoy as well as the numerous claims of night-time helicopter barrel bombs elsewhere. It's feasible that they are using hand-help GPS for night navigation but I've seen no credible evidence of night-time operations at military airports.<br /><br />There are some reports the L39 is flown at night but nothing I can find to suggest they are carrying out raids. Perhaps training? Perhaps redeployment?<br /><br />The Syrian airforce is a Sunni bastion. All their pilots are middle-aged career in their 40s and 50s. They have a minuscule annual intake though that would have been stepped up a bit with the loss of some dozens of pilots in the war. It's just possible an Alawite got into the intake and rose in seniority due to attrition.<br /><br />As discussed elsewhere. The SyAAF will certainly have a radio scrambling / encryption system. The only circumstances they wouldn't use it is to communicate with civilian ATC and with the Russians. They also have the traditional fallback to use codewords if they have to transmit in clear.Charles Woodnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-36726304985397150232017-09-30T19:06:16.502-07:002017-09-30T19:06:16.502-07:00The image has obviously been watermarked and the r...The image has obviously been watermarked and the related image 4067 ditto. They are a few seconds apart - maybe about enough time for a batch watermarking? I suggest the time and date are from when they were ingested and tagged into the RFS computer system rather than actual time of image.Charles Woodnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-60122534078207488252017-09-28T07:04:19.392-07:002017-09-28T07:04:19.392-07:00You need to view a picture and remove everything r...You need to view a picture and remove everything right of the ? e.g.<br />https://i2.wp.com/rfsmediaoffice.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IMG_4065.jpg<br /><br />comes back as Date of Creation<br />2017:04:03 11:58:39<br /><br />The time is clearly earlier so I think it is just wrong on the camera. I've got it down as roughly 10am for the photos, no-one obviously from the KS videos.. hopefully some clues in there anyway, I'll keep searching for the others.Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-38963059287948196862017-09-27T05:14:00.734-07:002017-09-27T05:14:00.734-07:00That could be an April 3 scene recycled, unless an...That <i>could</i> be an April 3 scene recycled, unless anything clearly ties it. Nothing I know of. Locale looks good - if there are that many matching features, and it looks to me like this is on a hill running N-S? Good. The empty sky all around suggests the place is on a hilltop, highest buildings around.<br /><br />Checking the map for context... and thanks... not far from Maarat al-Numan, where some people were taken. Could make sense. Further yet from Al-Habit (just west of KS), and times may not match. The angle looks like about 9 am or a bit later, perhaps. Plausible for KS people on April 4. Seems like a Mosque-connected social center kind of place, not a hospital. Some seem ill, or acting like it. I think that's a water tanker, their standard medicine. The scene's worth more review.<br /><br />According to https://citizenevidence.amnestyusa.org/<br />The Youtube video was posted 4-4, 10:58:49 UTC, or 1:58 in Syria. <br /><br />I can't find the exif info on the photos, but view image info says published 12:10:47+3 (so 3:10:47) on the 4th, no creation date I saw, modified a week ago. This stuff goes over my head a bit.Caustic Logichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03082923821952309709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-49184444672416755832017-09-27T04:51:00.834-07:002017-09-27T04:51:00.834-07:00Thanks, some very good points I should have known,...Thanks, some very good points I should have known, even before that comment I glossed over. <br /><br />That Hussam sounds like a different guy from the one who sounds like Hasna. <br /><br />Some interesting points in the SNHR report I just added above, and in a few other spots. I propose Quds6 was just some error, but perhaps not. <br /><br />The report mentions a CW attack in Habit I remember hearing about, I guess on the day before. Now noted, in part.Caustic Logichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03082923821952309709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-26020923265614911552017-09-27T04:27:09.091-07:002017-09-27T04:27:09.091-07:00Maybe worth a look, a possible for the location of...Maybe worth a look, a possible for the location of the grass scenes<br /><br />https://allthepics.net/image/KCRlT<br /><br />John Delacour has this as Khan Sheikhoun but I don't think it matches. It looks like a place just west of Al Ghadfah<br /><br />https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@35.6742281,36.7743217,239m/data=!3m1!1e3<br /><br />The area seems to be under construction so Terraserver shows things that aren't on Google maps, haven't worked out shadows exactly but I think it would make the time much earlier than the EXIF data (which was probably wrong anyway as says April 3rd)<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SY9E1gNKlM<br />https://rfsmediaoffice.com/2017/04/04/60449/Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-17378200241426857932017-09-26T08:00:56.622-07:002017-09-26T08:00:56.622-07:00Hasna has also said that "Quds-1" was in...Hasna has also said that "Quds-1" was in fact written on the plane and it was the other plane that was connected to the Hama attack <br /><br />Hasnsa: "One of the two warplanes had the symbol "Quds-1" written over it, while the other reads "Quds-6""<br /><br />"[Hasna] monitored the warplane with the symbol Quds-6 taking off at a similar time before in late-March and targeting a hospital in Hama suburbs with poison gases at that time"<br /><br />I guess he meant Lataminah, where in HRWs report White Helmet Abd al-Munaf Faraj al-Saleh says "they could only find very small pieces of the munition on the ground"<br /><br />I can't help thinking it is a lot easier for someone on the ground to clear away remnants than for someone flying over in a jet. Unless Quds1or6 has some new vanishing sarin bombs?<br /><br />SNHR report link/old comment in wrong topic -<br /><br />http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2017/09/coi-report-dismantling-at-indicter.html?showComment=1506251136325#c145324694290695479Andrewnoreply@blogger.com