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originally posted by: Liberal1984
As for whoever did this awful thing: They need to be brought to justice
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Regarding the shoot-down of the Malaysian jetliner on Thursday, I’m told that some CIA analysts cite U.S. satellite reconnaissance photos suggesting that the anti-aircraft missile that brought down Flight 17 was fired by Ukrainian troops from a government battery, not by ethnic Russian rebels
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Protesters hurled eggs and overturned diplomats’ cars Saturday outside the Russian embassy in Kiev just hours after the Ukrainian president vowed to attack Russian-backed rebels who killed 49 people when they shot down a military cargo plane.
The air attack early Saturday morning over eastern Ukraine — just miles from the Russian border — came as Russian-made tanks and rocket launchers flooded into rebel hands.
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originally posted by: jonnywhite
Tired of these conspiracy theories. Work yourselves into a frenzy. Whereas, real people in the real world are getting things done.
I'll believe there's a conspiracy when there's good evidence. I haven't seen any. Internet speculations do not qualify.
Do you really think our government (in parallel with the EU and others) would help Kiev to cover up their failed attempt to assassinate Putin or some other stupid rationale? Come on, this is the real world. I'm sure there have been some conspiracies in the past, but not everything is.
The pro-russian rebels have conclusively shot planes down:
nypost.com - Ukraine protestors get violent outside Russian embassy in Kiev...
Protesters hurled eggs and overturned diplomats’ cars Saturday outside the Russian embassy in Kiev just hours after the Ukrainian president vowed to attack Russian-backed rebels who killed 49 people when they shot down a military cargo plane.
The air attack early Saturday morning over eastern Ukraine — just miles from the Russian border — came as Russian-made tanks and rocket launchers flooded into rebel hands.
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Russian is smuggling weapons to eastern Ukraine to feed these rebels. Since htey shot down planes in the past, I don't see it as being a stretch that they "accidentally" shot down MH-17.
originally posted by: jaws1975
Without even looking at the evidence of this event, you have to ask yourself who is the most likely to benefit from it? The same way it was beneficial to the US to claim Assad gassed his people as a pretext for intervention, this benefits the US because Russia is in the middle of destroying the dollar with the BRIC central banks. link
Not to mention Israel's ground invasion of Gaza on the same freaking day, come on people this was coordinated!
originally posted by: stumason
originally posted by: victor7
Soon Germany will want to break away from the EU for the same reasons.
This just highlights the total disconnect in your BS - Germany break from the EU?
They ARE the EU!
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Ukraine's SBU security agency on Thursday released recordings of what it claimed were phone talks involving rebels and a Russian military intelligence officer admitting that they had hit the passenger jet after mistaking it for a military aircraft.
The recordings were presented as key evidence to back up Kiev's claims that rebels -- supported by Russia -- downed the jet while the separatists accused Ukraine's army of being responsible.
"Audio data provided to the press by the Ukrainian security service was evaluated by Intelligence Community analysts who confirmed these were authentic conversations between known separatist leaders," the US embassy in Ukraine said in a statement.
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"It's pretty clear that this is a system that was transferred from Russia into the hands of separatists," he said.
Video of an SA-11 launcher, with one of its missiles missing and leaving the likely launch site, has been authenticated, he said.
An Associated Press journalist saw a missile launcher in rebel-held territory close to the crash site just hours before the plane was brought down Thursday.
"There's a buildup of extraordinary circumstantial evidence," Kerry said. "We picked up the imagery of this launch. We know the trajectory. We know where it came from. We know the timing, and it was exactly at the time that this aircraft disappeared from the radar. We also know from voice identification that the separatists were bragging about shooting it down afterward."
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