Flight MH17: more questions than answers

Vanguard August 2014 p. 4
Bill F.

 

The loss of human lives on Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 is a terrible tragedy and almost certainly a shocking criminal act. There can be no justification whatsoever for attacking civilian aircraft.

Flight MH17 was brought down over Ukraine territory controlled by pro-Russian forces who have proclaimed the “Federal State of Novorossiya” based around the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.

The area is a war zone, as the Ukraine government tries to suppress the rebellion in the eastern part of the country.

Along with sorrow for the victims and their grieving families and friends, there is also the demand that those responsible be exposed and punished.

A United Nations endorsed investigation has been launched to uncover the true circumstances.

However, many of the countries supporting the investigation have already endorsed the position of the United States and Australia that the pro-Russian forces shot down the plane with a sophisticated missile supplied by Russia.

If this investigation is to have credibility it will have to tick off question marks already being raised by aviation experts as well as the Russian government.

Question marks

When the location of the plane was announced and there were calls for immediate access to the site by rescue teams and crash-site investigators, why did the Ukraine government refuse a ceasefire to allow this to happen? Why did they persist in attacking separatist positions?

Was there a Ukrainian BUK surface-to-air missile system in the Donetsk region at the time?

Did Ukrainian air control order the plane to fly at a lower altitude of 33,000 feet? Did Ukrainian air control order the plane to divert slightly from its scheduled flight path? Why?

Was there a Ukrainian SU fighter plane in the immediate vicinity of flight MH17?

Where is the US satellite evidence that shows the missile trajectory and infra-red image of the mid-air explosions?

Why was a commercial airliner flying over a war zone?

Why did the Ukraine Prime Minister Yatsenyuk resign as soon as the investigation was announced?

Don’t hold your breath waiting for the answers. Propaganda rules.

Ukraine is caught between the competing interests of US imperialist-controlled NATO and Russian imperialism. Both want control over the coalfields of the Donbass and its strategic location.
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September 19 update: http://www.globalresearch.ca/dutch-mh17-investigation-omits-us-intel-fabrications-and-omissions-supportive-of-us-nato-agenda-directed-against-russia/5402970