Bianca Bosker, Huffington Post

Profile of Eliot Higgins, British blogger who, as “Brown Moses”, has become an international authority on the weaponry used in the Syrian civil war. He helped establish that Iran was arming the Syrian regime, that Syria was using cluster bombs, that Saudi Arabia was arming the rebels, and that Assad was using chemical weapons. Almost all of which he did by diligent study of YouTube at his home in Leicester (5,100 words)