Posted on 07/24/2014 7:30:46 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
A pro-Russian separatist fighting in eastern Ukraine has admitted rebel forces shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, it has been claimed.
The militant, who has not been identified, reportedly said fighters blasted the Boeing 777 out of the sky - killing all 298 people on board - after mistaking it for a Ukrainian government cargo plane.
He said the rebels only realised their mistake when they began searching the crash site for the parachutes of military crew who may have bailed out the aircraft, only to find the bodies of children.
The rebel - who worked locally as a miner before joining pro-Russian separatists - told a reporter for Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera that officers initially told him MH17 was a government plane. 'We shot down a Kiev plane, our superiors told us. We thought we were looking for baled-out Ukrainian pilots but instead we found dead civilians,' he was quoted as saying.
'All those poor people with baggage that certainly wasn’t military... I was looking for a parachute and found the body of a little girl,' he added.
His sensational admission that rebel forces shot down MH17 is in stark contrast to other pro-Russian forces in the area, who remain insistent that the plane was taken down by government troops.
This morning Alexander Borodai, prime minister of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic, described evidence suggesting rebels had possession of a BUK missile launcher as 'fake'.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
What does that have to do with what you asked for?
Also, are you now trying to deny that Drudge flashed that it may have been an attempt to shootdown Putin’s plane, in the hours after the shoot-down?
Avoiding providing proof of your accusation again, I see.
How unsurprising, since it is your M.O.
I have posted, numerous times, about the Russians supplying the rebels, so please stop lying. I do enjoy the laughter, but the wife is starting to ask questions about it.
It is difficult to believe that you consider ignoring the history of similar wartime mistakes and fabricating or supporting loony conspiracy theories somehow advances conservative causes.
Just the opposite is true. Such activities repulse the political middle ground which is essential to winning elections.
"....you are backing them with internet propaganda".
WTF? I back people that have a positive influence on genuine conservatism, not the wacko "Kamikaze Conservatives". You are doing more harm than good.
Tragic—a victim of war. Putin should pull out and let Ukrain retake the “Rebelious states” or he should invade and make them part of the RF—one or the other. He needs to make a deal with Keiv—or fight a real war. In any case the questions need to be resolved one way or the other.
Just like the 60s, the pro-Russia crowd calls the West and NATO, and the free world, “the wacko “Kamikaze Conservatives”.
Why would you be so concerned with what Drudge flashed if you believed that the rebels accidentally shot it down???
Was that your standard misdirection attempt???
Now you are just being foolish. I asked if anything ever came of it, since I was out of contact for a while.
You are being purposefully obtuse, and are still refusing to back up your claims. It really is funny to watch.
“He needs to make a deal with Keiv”
A big part of the problem has been the coup government’s refusal to negotiate on anything. They said within hours of the signing of the Euro Accord that they were going to ignore it, they weren’t going to disarm the pro-Kiev militias.
There are forces at work in Kiev that have a big interest in seeing the war continue, and it is being driven by the anti-Russian hard-liners, with the support of the radical thugs.
Look at the fall of the government in Kiev today, driven by Svoboda, that some on FR keep telling us has “no influence, they are a small factor”. They also have the Right-Sector thugs strong-arming for them.
The Joooos did it.
Why would a ridiculous claim like that matter at all to someone who knew that the rebels shot it down.
hey Kevin Rothrock
The rebels have Russian military with them, they KNOW how to use their own SAM systems
Putin does not care how many he murders. Just look at Syria. Putin has kept that war going and doesn’t care at all about the thousands upons thousands he has murdered.
Is this your post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3184132/posts#8
Just so you know, Khodakovsky is denying in Russian Media that he ever told Reuters anything about BUK’s.
I don't think Kiev has much control of anything at all. This will continue to be a cluster of players and actions that are royally screwed up! Madness rules there both in the war theater and in it's Governance.
BTW...here's the new Prime Minster to replace Yats
Grosman is the new interim PM of Ukraine.......Former Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Economy Volodymyr Groisman (center)....second photo shows how Parliament appoints and creates resignations and replacements...this was yesterday's session
<>Avoiding providing proof of your accusation again<>
Here start with this:
Ukraine’s Security Council said on Wednesday preliminary information indicated that missiles which brought down two government fighter jets over eastern Ukraine were fired from Russia.
“Two of our jets were hit at an altitude of 5,200 metres. According to preliminary information, the missiles were launched from the territory of the Russian Federation,” the council said in a statement
http://www.trust.org/item/20140723154118-im9dy
Do we have a denial from the Kremlin yet???
“the missiles were launched from the territory of the Russian Federation,””
If that were indeed true, I have no doubt the sat imagery of the launch from our satellites would already be plastered all over the networks.
We would know, within feet, of where a missile that large was launched from. That we haven’t released anything even remotely like that says a lot.
Remember, the Russians have already asked Obama to release that footage from the airliner shootdown, and we haven’t.
What's astounding is that the separatist soldier freely related the story.
The exact story itself was known and discussed here the day of the crash.
I didn’t make the claim, Matt Drudge did. Maybe you should ask him about his “ridiculous” claim?
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