Will Wiley
Veteran Member
Recent chest thumping by our pugilistic Prime Minister got me thinking about MH17 again, even moreso when I saw that Der Spiegel had come out and announced that German intelligence has "unambiguous" evidence that the plane had been downed by Ukrainian seperatists using a BUK missile launcher.
This together with John Kerry's assurances that America had a "mountain of evidence" proving the rebels were responsible.
America and Germany have as yet provided no evidence to back up their claims. In fact AFAIK there is no professionals who have maded an attempt to produce any report that Ukrainian seperatists were responsible using a BUK.
The only ones who have produced any report that I am aware of are some Russian engineers. Who unsurprisingly say the plane was shot down by a Ukrainian jet.
But shouldn't the difference between the damage caused by a SAM be distiguishable from the damage caused by a machine gun (despite the fact the SAM may have contained rods and have exploded some distance away from the plane)?
This together with John Kerry's assurances that America had a "mountain of evidence" proving the rebels were responsible.
America and Germany have as yet provided no evidence to back up their claims. In fact AFAIK there is no professionals who have maded an attempt to produce any report that Ukrainian seperatists were responsible using a BUK.
The only ones who have produced any report that I am aware of are some Russian engineers. Who unsurprisingly say the plane was shot down by a Ukrainian jet.
But shouldn't the difference between the damage caused by a SAM be distiguishable from the damage caused by a machine gun (despite the fact the SAM may have contained rods and have exploded some distance away from the plane)?