Kickstarter-funded journalists found an ISIL training camp using Google Earth and Bing Maps

Posted By Jim Prouty

Posted 10 years ago

A group of crowd-funded citizen journalists seem to have located a training camp for the militant group ISIL using only online mapping services and some old-fashioned detective work. Bellingcat, which raised almost £51,000 ($85,000) to…

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