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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts)
Mon Jul 21, 2014, 07:19 AM Jul 2014

It was Putin's missile!

http://atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/CEN-01-190714.html



It was Putin's missile!
By Pepe Escobar
Jul 18, '14

And here's the spin war verdict: the current Malaysia Airlines tragedy - the second in four months - is "terrorism" perpetrated by "pro-Russian separatists", armed by Russia, and Vladimir Putin is the main culprit. End of story. Anyone who believes otherwise, shut up.

Why? Because the CIA said so. Because Hillary "We came, we saw, he died" Clinton said so. Because batshit crazy Samantha "R2P" Power said so - thundering at the UN, everything duly printed by the neo-con infested Washington Post. [1]

Because Anglo-American corporate media - from CNN to Fox (who tried to buy Time Warner, which owns CNN) - said so. Because the President of the United States (POTUS) said so. And mostly because Kiev had vociferously said so in the first place.

Right off the bat they were all lined up - the invariably hysterical reams of "experts" of the "US intelligence community" literally foaming at their palatial mouths at "evil" Russia and "evil" Putin; intel "experts" who could not identify a convoy of gleaming white Toyotas crossing the Iraqi desert to take Mosul. And yet they have already sentenced they don't need to look any further, instantly solving the MH17 riddle.

A simple search at reveals that MH17 was in fact diverted 200 kilometers north from the usual flight path taken by Malaysia Airlines in the previous days - and plunged right in the middle of a war zone. Why? What sort of communication MH17 received from Kiev air control tower?

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If you read this article, you will find out:

* this happened two days after the BRICS announced an antidote to the IMF and the World Bank, bypassing the US dollar.
* ATC diverted the flight 200 kilometers north of its normal path.
* shortly before the downing, two fighter jets were flying alongside the airliner.

Tweets from the Spanish Air Controller on duty at the time:

http://slavyangrad.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/spanish-air-controller-kiev-borispol-airport-ukraine-military-shot-down-boeing-mh17/

FINAL – Spanish Air Controller @ Kiev Borispol Airport: Ukraine Military Shot Down Boeing #MH17
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It was Putin's missile! (Original Post) unhappycamper Jul 2014 OP
Ukraine's SBU security service has confiscated recordings ........... dipsydoodle Jul 2014 #1

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
1. Ukraine's SBU security service has confiscated recordings ...........
Mon Jul 21, 2014, 08:08 AM
Jul 2014

15:29:

Ukraine's SBU security service has confiscated recordings of conversations between Ukrainian air traffic control officers and the crew of the doomed airliner, a source in Kiev has told Interfax news agency.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28360784 scroll back a few days to find

Confiscated why?

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