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By Peter Apps WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In 2013, Eliot Higgins used videos posted online from Syria to track weapons and pinpoint a chemical strike in Damascus from a computer in the English Midlands. This year, the British blogger and activist is using the same techniques to investigate the missiles in Ukraine believed to have brought down Flight MH17. As conflict flares in the Middle East and Ukraine, the number of images posted on social media is increasing exponentially, giving observers half a world away unprecedented visibility of events on the ground. Footage and still photographs have helped activists and experts identify what they say are Iranian aircraft in Iraq, foreign arms – including U.S.-made rockets – in Syria and killings from Gaza to Nigeria.