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Cossack militants admit shooting down plane to Russian intel
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was shot down by a group of Russian-backed Cossack separatists some 80 kilometers northwest of Donetsk, according to recordings of intercepted phone calls between Russian military intelligence officers and members of terrorist groups, released by Ukraine's security agency (SBU).One phone call apparently was made 20 minutes after the plane crash, by Igor Bezler, who the SBU calls a Russian military intelligence officer and leading commander of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic. He reports to a person identified as a colonel in the main intelligence department of the general headquarters of the armed forces of the Russian Federation regarding the plane, which is about to be examined by the militants. The second intercepted conversation released was apparently between militants nicknamed "Major" and "Greek" upon inspection of the crash site. "Major" says, "It's 100 percent a passenger (civilian) aircraft," as he admitted to seeing no weapons on site. "Absolutely nothing. Civilian items, medicinal stuff, towels, toilet paper." In the third part of conversation a Cossack commander, talking to an unidentified militant, cynically suggests that the airplane could have been carrying spies because, otherwise, it would have no business in that area. Posted by: ryuge 2014-07-18 |
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