Malaysian plane crashes on Ukraine-Russia border - live

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298. amandabeech

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The rebels commander stated officially, on twitter that they had shot down a military jet belonging to the Ukraine air force - before the twitter was scrubbed as they might have discovered who they really was shoot down - an civilian airliner with no link to the Ukraine air force what so ever... So it is possible that it was the ukrainian rebels who manage to shot down the airline - mistaking it for a ukraine military aircraft of sorts....

But even admitting that would not make things better - the airliner is still shoot down - and 300 people is still dead - sadly I doubt anyone will came forward and say they did it - and admit to the mistake - if not forcefully been forced to do it by external powers.... Like Russia - as Putin was on a aircraft flying over the general area to other parts of Russia (Russia is a huge country spanning a lot of landmass - and also have more than 11 hours difference between Arkhangelsk and the Pacific ocean in the west) and it could be - that the rebels who was using SA-11 (BUK) was after Putin - not the 777.... That is an implication that would make heads roll if it is possible - specially as the russian politics is rather byzantine in their actions sometimes - and specially at the level of Putin... The Byzantine empire was not just exporting the Orthodox religion to Russia back in the days it sees Putin was also on the phone with President Obama just after the shoot down - and I suspect Putin had a lengthy communication with Obama about this and other things who was on his mind at the moment.. So It looks like Putin might not be in the know about what happened on the ground - or might be have been the target - the russian presidential aircraft - and the 777 could look similar from the ground at 33.000ft.. (or 10.000 meter).....

I think for the most part it is a shock to everyone - that the airliner was show down - I'm not sure if anyone have come to conclusion yet about how did what and why... It is to early to judge yet - and to point fingers to who did it... Rather the opposite - Ukraine have been in a civil war for a long time now - a low simmering war who I suspect many got tired of in the end - the conflict in the Middle east have for some reason got more attention lately - and then bom Ukraine was back in fashion with a shot down of an airliner... Raggedness who did it - i would take a lot of time to identify - and to get to the bottom of it all - to get to know who did it really.... I suspect someone on the rebel side of this conflict really had a bad day when he discovered what was happening...

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