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| Cossack militants admit shooting down plane to Russian intel |
| 2014-07-18 |
| 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 |
| #5 I see a b'ar there... |
| Posted by: Albert Noodleman2094 2014-07-18 23:07 |
| #4 |
| Posted by: spano bellingbo3665 2014-07-18 19:50 |
| #3 Good concept bad execution. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2014-07-18 11:21 |
| #2 Not NSA initially, but NRO would be primary for this at the start. You can bet there is IMINT, and IR data from various assets that was sent up the chain FLASH priority. Same goes with any SIGNIT/ELINT/COMINT data like this. Problem is its all classified as to sources and methods, so nobody will talk publicly about it. Someone somewhere in the IC has a solid picture of this and the aftermath, as well as data mining prior information to establish pre-incident continuity and context. The problem isn't the data, nor the reporting. Its the political will to act decisively upon the data. That's simply not in place with the narcissistic cowardly asshole Chicago thug we have as CINC, nor with his political lackeys in the DOD flag rank officers, nor with the anti-American surrendercrats in the State department. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-07-18 10:34 |
| #1 Where's the NSA on this one? Or are they too busy monitoring US citizens' daily activities and "subversive" media like Drudge Report to have recorded any of the comms from this area? |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2014-07-18 09:52 |