However, for some reason he accepted it. Perhaps to save $1500 worth of fuel. Or there was something else.
it is getting interesting by the day.
New development: another shadow of KAL007.
Ruskies today claimed (and have evidence) that U.S. spy satellite flew overhead at the very time MH17 being shot down and ask from U.S. to release the photos and electronic other records of the shootdown. Ouch.
They also claim that Ukrainian SU-25 was shadowing MH17 at a distance of 3 nm.
I suppose that lets Vlad look good, to be confident that platform data (reduced res, of course) would keep Mother Russia from being (arguably) culpable for the deaths of 298, perhaps knowing Obama would hesitate doing anything Putin might want, just to show Pooty-Poot who’s more manly, in a bathhouse-kinda way.
Depending on the (our?) sensor’s capabilities (which Vlad prolly knows better than Barry), there may not be the kind of info from that platform to recreate a YouTube-style video that the world would expect of the blast-off, rise of the SA missile and its take-down of MH17. Barry would also avoid showing those cards.
Or if the satellite would inevitably show a Ukrainian military transport 2 miles in tow of MH17, that might make Kiev look bad, eh? Ah, but Barry might be able to have that Photoshopped out, Vladi!
HF