U.S. to release intelligence on Malaysian plane downing: State Department [View all]

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Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - The United States will on Tuesday release intelligence backing its assertion that the Malaysian airliner that crashed in Ukraine was brought down by a missile fired from the separatist-controlled area, the State Department said.

Spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters the intelligence community would later in the day "be further declassifying information and will be putting out additional information that supports what we have said."

Harf repeated the U.S. belief that the plane, with nearly 300 people on board, was shot down by a Russian-made SA-11 ground-to-air missile fired from an area controlled by separatists close to the Russian border in eastern Ukraine.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/22/us-ukraine-crisis-usa-intelligence-idUSKBN0FR23U20140722

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US Dismisses Russia’s ‘Proof’ on Kiev’s Role in Boeing Crash

WASHINGTON, July 22 (RIA Novosti) – The US Department of State has dismissed Russia’s sensational claims suggesting that a Ukrainian fighter plane or missile systems could have been involved in the July 17 crash of a Malaysian passenger plane in eastern Ukraine.


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The spokeswoman said the US assessment comes from social media accounts.

When pressed on the refusal to provide intelligence data supporting the US assessment that a SA-11 missile system, also known as Buk, brought down the plane, Harf accused Russia of spreading “misinformation and propaganda.”

"We are not equally credible parties … we don't put out mass amounts of propaganda," she added.

http://en.ria.ru/world/20140722/191096060/US-Dismisses-Russias-Proof-on-Kievs-Role-in-Boeing-Crash.html