Here is an article about the “bodies” issue and many comments. In Washington, DC there are people marching to protest the Israeli entry into Palestine. Is anyone picketing the Russian embassy demanding that they pressure the rebels to allow entry by the forensic teams to recover the remains?
http://www.aol.com/article/2014/07/20/rebels-take-full-control-of-mh17-plane-crash-bodies/20934008/?ncid=webmail7
A friend told me the Dutch have been a country least strong in pressuring Putin to stop the nonsense. I suspect that will change now that they have lost the population equivalent of our 9/11 3,000 dead.
Apparently the pilot had been talking about making the Haj to Mecca this year. Why would a good Muslim commit suicide before making his Haj?
http://www.thenewstribe.com/2014/03/31/muslim-tatars-seek-autonomy-in-crimea/
The 300,000-strong Muslim minority makes up less than 15 percent of Crimea’s population of 2 million and has so far been overwhelmingly opposed to Russia’s annexation of the peninsula.