WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior U.S. intelligence officials said Tuesday that Russia was responsible for creating the conditions that led to the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, but they offered no evidence of direct Russian government involvement. The intelligence officials were cautious in their assessment, noting that while the Russians have been arming separatists in eastern Ukraine, the U.S. had no direct evidence that the missile used to shoot down the passenger jet came from Russia. [...] The officials made clear they were relying in part on social media postings and videos made public in recent days by the Ukrainian government, even though they have not been able to authenticate all of it. For example, they cited a video of a missile launcher said to have been crossing the Russian border after the launch, appearing to be missing a missile. But later, under questioning, the officials acknowledged they had not yet verified that the video was exactly what it purported to be. [...] Asked about evidence, one of the senior U.S. intelligence officials said it was conceivable that Russian paramilitary troops are operating in eastern Ukraine, but that there was no direct link from them to the missile launch. Asked why civilian airline companies were not warned about a possible threat, the officials said they did not know the rebels possessed SA-11 missiles until after the Malaysian airliner was shot down. ***************************** The last line. Seriously? They only know that they possessed those missles... after the plane was shot down?! Lets break down the structure of this argument: How do you know the separatists shot down the plane? Because they possessed SA-11 missles capable of shooting it down. How do you know that they possessed it? Because they shot down the plane. -.- Somebody needs to retake some basic philosophical logic and argumentation classes...
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 09:03:16 +0000
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