COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
There are three suggestive facts around this crash.
1) The plane flew right through the area of a joint naval
exercise called Phoenix Express 2016.
2) The plane was detected by the Greek Defence Forces taking
unusual evasive action like nothing involved in normal flight. Although the
Egyptians already are saying this isn't so.
3) A Greek recorded some video of a "fireball"
across the sky at the time. At least to my eye it resembles a rocket trail.
The shooting down of civilian airliners by the American
military has happened about half a dozen times. These events are always either
completely lied about (TWA Flight 800 off the US East Coast) or presented as
something other than what they were (The downing of an Iranian airliner during
the Iran-Iraq War).
It should come as no surprise if this proves to be the case
here. America's ships and jets are in many locations and carry many deadly
missiles. We also live in a time of extremely elevated tensions thanks to the
US, so such weapons are all the more prone to being fired in error.
Of course, Egypt will never tell us the truth just as the US
lied about TWA 800 and as it lies about Ukraine's role in downing MH-17.
Already Egypt's government is contradicting the experts at
the morgue who said the bodies proved an explosion.
