COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN
The Dutch investigation into the downing of Flight MH-17 is most
disgraceful air-crash investigation I've ever heard of, leaving out, as it
does, crucial evidence. The report may be understood as the Warren Commission
of aircraft-crash investigations, a nickname very suitable since it was
produced by the Dutch to the exclusion of other parties under intense American
pressure.
Pieces of the plane actually remain on the ground in
Ukraine.
The manufacturer of the Buk system was not consulted and
evidence they attempted to submit was not used.
Russian government data was ignored.
Ukrainian Air Force records were never examined.
And shabbiest of all, America's data in the form of radar
tracks and satellite images were never examined because they were never offered
and never demanded.
The very fact that America never offered data which we know
to a certainty exists - an American spy satellite was directly overhead at the
time of the crash - is a terribly incriminating fact left untouched by this
"investigation."
What these folks are telling us, after a supposed year of
investigative work, is pretty much what we knew on day one: the plane was
brought down by someone firing some form of missile.
Contrary to some careless newspaper headlines, the report is
not even conclusive about the type of missile, describing it as resembling Buk.
General readers may not know but the Buk system - a Russian-made
ground-to-air system - has been produced for decades, and there are a number of
versions of it.
Earlier versions of it are no longer in use in Russia, but
they very much are in Ukraine. The Russian manufacturer of Buk itself conducted
tests and concluded that an older version of the missile, fired from
Ukraine-controlled territory, was responsible for damage they simulated in
tests.
Russia has not provided the missile to separatists in
Eastern Ukraine.
If American data had been examined and released, I'd be glad
to embrace the results whatever they were, but there is only one plausible
reason for keeping them secret: they demonstrate something embarrassing to
America's coup-installed government in Ukraine.
The investigation thus has served the purpose of a
government white paper or special investigation: eaten up time to reduce the
public clamor over an issue and allow people to forget.
It is a shabby, shabby effort, just like so many
American-induced dark acts in today's world, such as its phony war against ISIS
in Syria which in truth tends to support ISIS as it does what America wants
doing.
