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Pro-Russian rebels have booby-trapped MH17 crash site with landmines ...
The Daily Mail Online ^ | July 30, 2014 | Jill Reilly

Posted on 07/30/2014 11:12:03 AM PDT by Uncle Chip

claim Ukraine one day ahead of talks with Russia over access to the scene

Pro-Russian rebels have booby-trapped MH17 crash site with landmines, according to Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, making it impossible for international investigators to access the scene of the crash.

Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said the rebels were digging in for battle near the crash site: 'They have brought a large number of heavy artillery there and mined approaches to this area. This makes impossible the work of international experts trying to start work to establish the reasons behind the Boeing 777 crash.'

The fighting in eastern Ukraine prevented representatives of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe reaching the crash site on Tuesday for the third successive day.

The news came hours after Belarus announced it will host talks between Ukraine, Russia and the OSCE security and rights organisation on the crisis.

President Alexander Lukashenko's office did not state when the discussions would take place but Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko asked Lukashenko to host them on Thursday and to focus on securing access to the site where a Malaysian airliner was brought down in east Ukraine.

'Decisions are being made on a political level on ensuring safety on the site,' Michael Bociurkiw, a spokesman for the OSCE in Ukraine said on Wednesday.

An OSCE convoy had earlier on Wednesday been stopped by rebels about 10 km (six miles) outside the city of Donetsk because of fighting further along the route, but OSCE officials later denied it had been trying to reach the crash site....

There was no indication pro-Russian separatists fighting Ukraine's army would attend the talks, although Lukashenko's office said 'all interested sides' were invited.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mh17; ukraine
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1 posted on 07/30/2014 11:12:03 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

Okay

Now that’s just plain stupid.

If euwope doesn’t get into it with Russia then ....Efff em


2 posted on 07/30/2014 11:14:18 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Uncle Chip
Pro-Russian rebels have booby-trapped MH17 crash site with landmines ...

A little late, but it will certainly cut down on looting of the passengers' belongings.

3 posted on 07/30/2014 11:14:54 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (I want 0bama to make history - First to be IMPEACHED and REMOVED!)
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To: Uncle Chip

Putin’s proxies at their moral best...


4 posted on 07/30/2014 11:15:46 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

I’m thinking that about a dozen signs saying “Mine Zone” posted along the perimeter would have been sufficient —


5 posted on 07/30/2014 11:18:57 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: The Sons of Liberty

The land mines are being put in place by the looters.


6 posted on 07/30/2014 11:20:58 AM PDT by Ingtar (The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
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To: Uncle Chip

How does one say “Mine zone” in Spanish and pictorially?


7 posted on 07/30/2014 11:21:41 AM PDT by Ingtar (The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
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To: Uncle Chip

I think everything was picked clean before the fires were put out. The only people it would effect now are “accident investigators” and we could save them some time - it was no accident.


9 posted on 07/30/2014 11:22:02 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (I want 0bama to make history - First to be IMPEACHED and REMOVED!)
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To: McGruff

Could you please check the title to make sure that I have it right —


10 posted on 07/30/2014 11:22:08 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip
The area is populated with barbarians apparently.Maybe nuking the area would be a good idea.
11 posted on 07/30/2014 11:22:48 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Uncle Chip

Good news to our natural gas and propane industry in America, THAT IS, if the EU buys from us and the EPA gets off their backs.


12 posted on 07/30/2014 11:23:41 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: Uncle Chip

If true, why? It’s incredibly bad PR, forgetting about the humanitarian/moral side.


13 posted on 07/30/2014 11:24:00 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Post of the day!


14 posted on 07/30/2014 11:24:02 AM PDT by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

I saw where they opened up a Goodwill clothing store over there from just the clothes alone.

I expect a cosmetic store next.


15 posted on 07/30/2014 11:25:21 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: lormand

...and summarily zapped by the thread moderator!


16 posted on 07/30/2014 11:30:57 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

“If true, why? It’s incredibly bad PR, forgetting about the humanitarian/moral side.”

I hear ya. I suppose PR goes out the window when you are trying to avoid a war crimes trial. Or something.


17 posted on 07/30/2014 11:31:18 AM PDT by Noamie
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To: Noamie

both sides have propagandists at work


18 posted on 07/30/2014 11:31:53 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

The locals went over the area like locusts before the fires even burned out.


19 posted on 07/30/2014 11:33:39 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Uncle Chip

Can anyone tell me what an “investigator” could possibly find anyway? Sa-11, captured from the Ukranians by the rebels mistakenly fired on a passenger plane that was trying to save fuel by cutting across a war zone,in my opinion. Is that it? Airplane fall down go boom. All killed. What other factoid is even possible.


20 posted on 07/30/2014 11:35:11 AM PDT by rlapuma
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