Russia's Defense Ministry cited videogame footage as ‘irrefutable evidence’ of U.S.-ISIS collaboration

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Russia's Defense Ministry cited videogame footage as ‘irrefutable evidence’ of U.S.-ISIS collaboration
Meduza
06:20, 14 november 2017

    Update: Russia's Defense Ministry blames a ‘civilian employee’ for tweeting a videogame screenshot, and publishes more ‘irrefutable evidence’ that America is helping ISIS

On November 14, the Russian Defense Ministry’s Twitter account published (and later deleted) “irrefutable evidence that U.S. is actually covering ISIS combat units to recover their combat capabilities, redeploy, and use them to promote American interests in Middle East,” sharing several black-and-white photos. Moscow claims the images were recorded on November 9 near the city of Abu Kamal in Syria.



The research group Conflict Intelligent Team (CIT) has pointed out, however, that one of the photos published by Russia’s Defense Ministry is actually a screenshot from the mobile videogame “AC-130 Gunship Simulator: Special Ops Squadron.”

Continued at: https://meduza.io/en/shapito/2017/11/14/russia-s-defense-ministry-cited-videogame-footage-as-irrefutable-evidence-of-u-s-isis-collaboration

McCain did it.

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Radio Free Europe reports too, I guess this happened on November 14:

Russia Shows Video-Game Footage As Evidence Of U.S. 'Cover' For IS

The Russian military has released what it called "irrefutable evidence" that the United States is providing cover for Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria in order to "promote American interests."

But there were problems with the images Moscow presented on November 14 alongside its accusations as proof: One was taken from a video game, while the others were taken from old footage from Iraq.

Read more at: https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-military-uses-video-game-images-to-prove-us-helped-islamic-state/28853776.html