How Brown Moses Lifts The Lid On The World's Biggest Stories From His Leicester Living Room

For most people who caught a glimpse of the harrowing video where journalist James Foley knelt on a barren, windswept hill next to the Islamic State militant who would behead him, the landscape looked bleak and anonymous.

With no buildings or trees at first glance and a backdrop of just sand and rocks, the site of the killing had been carefully chosen to give no clue to its whereabouts. To the average person the location was as faceless as the hooded knifing-wielding jihadi who would eventually inflict the lethal blows on Foley. But it took Eliot Higgins just a few hours and a cup of tea to zero-in on the exact execution point.

The 35-year-old doesn't work for MI5, and he's technically not an investigative journalist, a ballistics expert, or a human rights activist, although he's rightfully won a reputation has having the best traits of all three. He also doesn't speak Arabic. He left his job in administration at a accountancy firm and lives with his wife and three-year-old daughter in Leicester. But since then, he has dedicated the last two years of his life to watching YouTube videos and following Twitter accounts, becoming an expert in tracking the movements of troops and weapons across the Middle East and beyond.

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