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Early last month, a British blogger and weapons expert faced a tough choice: he could continue poring through hundreds of YouTube videos to help identify weapons flowing to Syrian rebels or return full-time to a day job and pay the bills. Posting his work under the moniker "Brown Moses," Eliot Higgins has, in the past year, seen his once obscure research cited by several mainstream publications and nonprofit groups. A February story in The New York Times reporting apparent sanctions violations involving the sale of Croatian arms to Syrian rebel groups leaned heavily on his work. But then Higgins ran...