Saturday, April 14, 2012

YouTube Provides Valuable Intel On The Syrian Civil War

YouTube Providing Scarce Intel On Syrian Fight -- Bloomberg Businessweek

A tall, muscular figure silhouetted against a palm-studded city block shoulders a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, aims and fires at a Syrian armored vehicle in the distance.

The video of the attack, one of thousands posted on YouTube by the Syrian opposition, reveals the rebels’ growing capabilities and the wear-and-tear on the Assad regime’s forces, said Jeffrey White, a retired U.S. defense intelligence analyst. The Russian-made BMP infantry fighting vehicle was buttoned up tight, a sign the soldiers inside were wary, he said.

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My Comment:
Some of the video on YouTube has been riveting. As a source of intel ... it has been invaluable for me in this blog .... and if this has been the case for me, I can only imagine what the intelligence services are gleaming from this same information.

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