Posted on 07/23/2014 8:59:56 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
Washington Seeks to Counter Russian Claims About MH17 Crash
U.S. intelligence officials presented reporters with their most detailed case yet Tuesday that Russian-backed Ukrainian separatists shot down a Malaysia Airlines jetliner last week, in a bid to counter what American officials see as Russian efforts to muddy the waters with claims of Ukrainian culpability.
The officials relied on photographs, social media, and voiceprint analysis of Ukrainian communications intercepts to make their public case that a likely SA-11 antiaircraft weapon fired from separatist-controlled territory shot down the commercial airliner, killing 298 people on board.
The evidence cited, however, didn't raise the case for Russian involvement in the shoot-down to a new level of certainty. Officials said they are still working to refine evidence and may offer more in coming days.
Other U.S. officials, including some at the Pentagon, have said more assertively in recent days that Russia likely provided the missile system used by separatists to shoot down Flight 17. The more restrained presentation by intelligence officials Tuesday reflected the cautious nature of intelligence analysis.
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Locals in the rebel-held city of Torez said on Tuesday that on the day Flight 17 went down, they spotted an SA-11, or Buk, missile on a flatbed truck traveling through the town center toward the alleged launch site.
One Torez resident who works on the main road said the SA-11 was notable because he hadn't seen such a sophisticated ground-to-air missile system among the many military vehicles that had rolled through Torez since fighting began. He said what looked like the same truck later came back through town going the other way, without the missile.
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Did you not take your meds today or is the Vodka flowing?
Maybe you should check your anti-semitic websites to get insults which do not apply just to Neo-Soviet rats like yourself.
Otherwise people can determine themselves...and I trust most Freepers will take whatever is posted and investigate what is significant to them , just as I do, and will arrive at their own conclusions which is worthy of respect....However, when you and others like you flame posters and attach name calling and derogatory remarks in your posts you reveal your level of understanding as less than limited.
One of the 295 dead was American...but that is no problem and no concern of yours?
Russians shooting passenger jets out the sky is not our problem...got you! Btw, does your family fly in passenger jets ever?
You’ve been trolling this site since you joined .....nothing new to your posts except the same runny mouth with nothing of substance that makes any difference...
Your anger and hatred runs with others we know.
Well they’ve all tagged one another and are here to stop any flow of information...yet again....and we all know who likes to stop information that would arrive at the truth.
Let’s not pretend we don’t know there are active duty Russian military personnel fighting and commanding inside Ukraine and even the rebels living in Ukraine are following orders from Moscow.
If you really think the Ukrainians are only fighting a few hundred drunks from Donetsk you really should be at DU not FR.
It is absurd to think a few drunk Russian rebels operated and have shot down multiple planes with that BUK or multiple BUK’s.
“Let’s not pretend we don’t know there are active duty Russian military personnel fighting and commanding inside Ukraine”
Until you can PROVE it, that is just speculation.
As is that the US is leading Kiev.
I don’t doubt that both could be true, but neither is PROVEN....
Unlike you Ruskie, we don’t salute the Russian flag here or let our enemies dictate how we defend ourselves.
“Russians shooting passenger jets out the sky is not our problem...”
The “Russians” didn’t shoot down anything.
Pro-Russian UKRAINIAN rebels likely did.
YOU, yet again, making accusations that you simply don’t have evidence for.
Your purpose here is very clear to us all.
“Unlike you Ruskie, we don’t salute the Russian flag here”
MORE 12 yr-old name calling?
REALLY?
Is that all you do?
You will note how quickly they escalate to the level of HATE.
Yeah, you are full of crap and you know it. Your BS lies have already been exposed.
The likelihood you are a Russian agent and traitor to the US is high, all you do is post Russian propaganda even after it is proven to be Russian lies.
Says the lying scumbag who once told me that he used to respect me, till I decided not to be a worthless Putinista. Your lies do not even keep up with each other.
lol...
More juvenile name calling, eh?
Which is it tcrlaf, caww, McGruff, deforest and the rest of you Russian agents and useful idiots?
You prefer Russia to be running things or the United States of America?
Who is your allegiance too?
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