Russia is meddling in Syria (air strikes, etc...) but they have no actual boots-on-the-ground there. Should have checked the iPhones first:
From Yahoo/Reuters:
Russian soldiers geolocated by photos in multiple Syria locations, bloggers say
Three serving or former Russian soldiers have been geolocated by photographs in Syria, including locations near Hama, Aleppo and Homs, Russian bloggers said on Sunday, suggesting the Kremlin's operation stretches well beyond its air campaign.
Russia first launched air strikes to support President Bashar al-Assad in Syria's four-year civil war on Sept. 30 but has repeatedly said it has no intention of mounting a ground operation.
It has instead said it will limit its help to military trainers, advisers and deliveries of military equipment.
A bit more:
Sunday's report by Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT), a group of Russian investigative bloggers, said that photos on social media had been used to geolocate three Russian serving or former soldiers in Syria.
"Although we still don't have indisputable evidence of Russian servicemen taking a direct part in the fighting on the ground in Syria, we believe the situation observed contradicts the claims of Russian officials that Russian troops are not taking part and are not planning to take part in ground operations,” CIT said.
Sooo busted. People have no clue just how much information is embedded into even the simplest of digital photographic images. All the camera and exposure settings, date and time and if the camera has a built-in GPS, all the location info as well. Handy for sorting files after the fact but has the potential to be embarrassing to nations - case in point...
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