Category talk:UMLACA

Possible location match
So far I have dismissed the UMLACA launch videos. They seem to be somewhere outside Damascus, in the "Ghouta" with open spaces, orchards and trees. One thing sticks out though: the first video seems to show the pole of a street light.

sasa wawa has now published his estimate on the launch site:
 * Mapping the Source of the Attack – Sep 25, 2013

The place is in the cloverleaf intersection between Jobar and Qaboun.

I looked on Google Earth. I can now point out a possible launch site that matches the videos. I am able to pinpoint two roads and one small tree. The rockets are aimed in the right direction. Video shows other trees in background, map shows some, maybe not as many.

This is not yet a location match by our standards. but as everything else fits, it is starting to look like this is the smoking gun. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 23:18, 25 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Launch 1


 * Launch 2


 * Launch 3

What is the piece of debris?
I am trying my luck and searching for anything in the videos that might make it it possible to identify the location. There is very little in the videos that is fixed to any location. One thing sticks out in video #1. On the ground, near the lamp post is a strange metal frame Looks like a foldable camping chair. I was thinking it might be something that has fallen off the lamp post.

I went looking for photos and videos of the intersection. I found this. At 1:09 in the video from Qaboun you see the top part of a larger lamp post fallen half way to the ground. It has a frame of similar tubular construction. This one has eight halogen style floodlights. (compare to this photo) One could imagine that the frame seen on the video could hold four similar floodlights. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 02:57, 26 September 2013 (UTC)



Note the stone lining on the side of the driveway and the lamp post aligned to the side of the road. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 06:11, 26 September 2013 (UTC)



A tree near the lamp post. similar trees have been planted in the intersection. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 14:25, 26 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Haytham Hasan Hamzeh has posted a number of photos of the intersection area in its post-2010 form on Panoramio.
 * http://www.panoramio.com/photo/35956307
 * http://www.panoramio.com/photo/35956760
 * http://www.panoramio.com/photo/35956768
 * http://www.panoramio.com/photo/35956747
 * http://www.panoramio.com/photo/35956293
 * http://www.panoramio.com/photo/47520918 (by TAHA)
 * The one that closest matches the lamp post and the tree is this one with a green camel. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 18:49, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

ANNA News video
Petri, this reminded me of an ANNA News video from July where they bust a tunnel in Qaboon, and it ends under a bridge under the motorway. Back then I located the place with some confidence I can't resemble atm as being here, right beside the Air Force Intelligence Branch. Maybe I messed up the link a bit and it was supposed to show a different specific point in that intersection. The parts which show the view outside both sides of the bridge start at around 7:30 into the video, maybe it's useful here. --CE (talk) 16:44, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I guess this underpass is further south on the bypass motorway, somewhere opposite Zamalka. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 17:15, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
 * No, as they say after 8min, Zamalka is to the very right of the view (hence south), Erbin somewhere in between (facing) and Harasta to the very left (north). --CE (talk) 17:20, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
 * The captions say "tunnel to Arbin from al-Kabun". The underpass does not match my road. I cannot find the power line. Besides, The tunnel seems kind of left-handed, going from east to west, not north-south as my tunnel. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 18:26, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Here is another ANNA video from July 14, 2013. At the very start of the video we see a telephoto view of the intersection. The trees are very similar to the trees on the Liwa al-Islam video. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 02:27, 14 December 2013 (UTC)