Fake Evidence Blaming Russia for MH-17?
Pointing the finger of blame at Russian President Putin for the
Malaysia Airlines shoot-down last July, an Australian news show claims
to have found the spot where the Russian BUK missile battery made its
getaway, but the images don’t match, raising questions of journalistic
fakery, writes Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
An
Australian television show claims to have solved the Malaysia Airlines
Flight 17 shoot-down mystery – the Russians did it! – but the program
appears to have faked a key piece of evidence and there remain many of
the same doubts as before, along with the dog-not-barking question of
why the U.S. government has withheld its intelligence data.
The basic point of the Australian “60 Minutes” program
was that photographs on social media show what some believe to be a BUK
anti-aircraft launcher aboard a truck traveling eastward on July 17,
2014, the day of the shoot-down, into what was generally considered
rebel-controlled territory of eastern Ukraine, south and east of
Donetsk, the capital of one of the ethnic Russian rebellious provinces.
A
screen shot of the roadway where the suspected BUK missile battery
passes after the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on July 17,
2014. (Image from Australian “60 Minutes” program)
screen shot of the roadway where the suspected BUK missile battery
passes after the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on July 17,
2014. (Image from Australian “60 Minutes” program)
