WHO SHOT DOWN MALAYSIAN AIRLINES FLIGHT MH 17?

Whoever it was that shot down Malaysian Airline flight MH 17 which was carrying innocent
civilians through the skies of eastern Ukraine whilst on it's way from Amstersdam to
Melbourne on 17 July 2014 has indulged in an act of exceptional barbarity.

This was a horrendous act of pure savagery and evil. The consequences of indulging in such
a course of action for those that were involved in it will be far -reaching and devastating. As
far as the unfolding and ugly events in Eastern Ukraine are concerned this episode is a real
game changer.

The question that is on everyones lips is who was behind it? The western and particularly
the American media and international news networks have already provided an answer to
that question and they would have us all believe their own version of events and accept
their understanding of the narrative.

Yet things are never as simple as they appear to be when it comes to such matters. As
Count Von Clauzwitz once said, ''truth is always the first casualty in war''. Concerning the
shooting down of this plane I urge everyone to think deeply about who was really behind it
and I urge them not to accept what they are being fed by the western news agencies and
western governments blindly.

There are a number of relevant and pertinent questions that still need to be answered
before we can come to any definitive position about who the culprits really were. For
example who stood to gain the most from shooting down the plane and why is the fact that
the plane had been escorted by Ukrainian fighter jets been unreported by the western
mainstream news networks.

Why, unlike others, did the Malaysian Airlines plane fly at 33,000 feet over a war zone
where other airlines refused to fly? Were they given assurances by someone or some people
who actually sought to set them up?

Why did they change their original flight path at the last minute and venture dangerously
into troubled and what were clearly dangerous skies? Was this really due to bad weather or
was it because they were advised to do so by some external force or authority?


What about the very serious allegation that is consistently being made on Russian, Chinese
and Iranian television that the target of the ground to air missile was actually President
Putin who was flying somewhere close to the area at the time and that the whole thing was
actually an assassination attempt against Putin by the Ukrainian government and their
American allies.


Why is that aspect of the whole episode not being reported on the western international
news networks? What does the Spanish Air controller have to gain by lying when he
asserted that the plane was actually shot down by the Ukrainian government, which is
America and Europe's ally and the arch enemy of the pro-Russian Eastern Ukrainian
separatists and the Russian Federation.



The motive would simply be to discredit the Russians and the East Ukrainian pro-Russian
forces and create a pre-text for greater NATO involvement in the unfolding events in
Eastern Ukraine. Simply put this whole episode brings us one step closer to a full scale war
in the Ukraine and eastern Europe between Russia and her allies on the one hand and
America and her allies on the other.



According to many conspiracy theorists, like the respected David Icke, who believe that the
Illuminati's goal is to use America to control the entire world and that the ultimate objective
is to eventually establish a ''new world order'' with a ''one world government'' such a war is
actually what many of the more powerful covert forces that are secretly operating behind
the scenes in the west and particularly America actually want.


There are so many unanswered questions in this matter. Again is there any link between
this tragic episode and the one involving the missing Malaysian Airline MH 370. This was the
plane which apparently vanished into thin air from the skies with no trace whlist it was on
it's way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing just a few months ago?


Can one airliner be so unlucky and is it just a coincidence or is there more to it? Eventually
the truth will unfold and all these questions will be answered. It is at that time that the
world will see for themselves who the real deceivers, butchers and monsters are in this and
so many other matters.


It is the same people that tried to convince us that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction,
who told us that the Syrian government used chemical weapons against it's own people and
who created Osama Bin Ladin and who used and funded him to fight the Soviets in
Afghanistan for many years.


It is the same people who shot down an Iranian passenger plane ''by mistake'' in the 1980's
killing hundreds of innocent civilians, who killed over 200,000 people in Baghdad in three
days of bombing, who fought an illegal war against Iraq, who destroyed Egypt, Libya and
Syria, who dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who fought an unnecessary
and illegitimate war in Vietnam, who assisted in the undermining and removal of a
democratically-elected President in the Ukraine, who set up a puppet regime in Georgia and
who looked the other way as 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered in three months in Rwanda.


It is the same people who installed and supported many brutal military dictatorships in
South America and Africa for many years, who orchestrated a terrible war between Iran and
Iraq, who prop up undemocratic feudal systems and governments in the Arab Gulf states,
who tolerated apartheid in South Africa for many decades.

It is the same people that were secretly behind 9/11 and that used that horrific event to
justify their intention to institute regime change Afghanistan, to invade and corner the oil
fields of Iraq and to threaten the borders of Iran.

It is the same people that secretly orchestrated and covertly organised the cold-blooded
murder, in the most brutal circumstances, of Muammar Ghadaffi, Patrice Lumumba,
Sylvanus Olympio, Thomas Sankara, Murtala Mohammed, Salvador Allende, Robin Cooke,
Princess Diana, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, John F, Kennedy, Anwar Sadat, Martin Luther
King, MKO Abiola, Sani Abacha and many other leaders and notable individuals that in one
way or the other offended their sensibilities.

It is the same people that refused to designate and label Boko Haram as a terrorist
organisation up until late last year even though that evil organisation had butchered over
15,000 innocent Nigerians as at that time. It is the same people that have manipulated the
ugly events in Pakistan and Afghanistan and that have killed more innocent civilians in
secret drone attacks than they care to admit.


It is the same people who, through their ally and puppet Saudi Arabia and their salifist
friends, covertly supported islamist terror and barbaric islamist militias like the Al Nosra
Front and ISIS more than anyone else and who have brought sheer chaos and destabilised
and removed more governments in north Africa, eastern Europe and the Middle East than
any other in world history.

It is the same people that have consistently undermined the security of the State of Israel
in the most subtle and deceitful manner whilst pretending to be a friend and ally of the
Jews.


It is the same people that believe in and support homosexual marriage and same-sex
unions and that have sought to impose their patently anti-Christ and humanist values and
philosophies on the rest of the world in the name of ''yes we can'' and liberalism.


It is the same people that believe that the world does not need God, that have banned
prayer in their public schools and that believe that they are now the new gods of this
strange and unfolding new world.


It is the same people that believe that the end justifies the means and that they can do
anything to further their evil agenda no matter how horrendous and no matter what the
cost is in human lives.


It is the same people that tell you that they don't believe in barbaric behavior, butchery,
human sacrifice and the systematic and well-orchestrated massacre of innocent civilians but
that actually indulge and encourage it in various parts of the world on a regular basis.


Need I say any more? May God save the world and humanity from these demons that are
working for the dark forces.
Late Thursday afternoon, a field of sunflowers in the village of Torez in eastern Ukraine was transformed
into a scene of a tragedy when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was brought down by a surface-to-air missile.
Jerome Sessini, a French photographer with the agency Magnum Photos, was one of the first people to
arrive at the scene. A veteran war photographer who has worked in conflict sites like Iraq and Somalia,
Sessini says he wasnt prepared for the weight of what he saw.
Sessini, who had been working in a nearby mining village in Donetsk, first heard about the crash when
his driver received a call from a local journalist, who explained that a plane had been downed in nearby
Torez, apparently by pro-Russian rebels. Initially assuming it was a Ukrainian military planethe pro-
Russian rebels had already destroyed a military transport plane and reportedly brought down two other
military aircraftSessini and his driver headed out.
As we made our way to Torez, we learned that it was in fact a civilian plane, the photographer told
TIME. It didnt take the pair long to reach the scene and they had no trouble accessing the crash site, as
there were very few people in the area at the time. Yet the rebels soon arrived, and they initially gave
Sessini trouble, taking his memory card away. They eventually returned it and allowed Sessini to take
photographs.
[What I saw] was horrific, almost unreal, he says. In addition to the charred wreckage and debris of
the destroyed Boeing 777 plane, there were bodies strewn across the fields. Some were still attached to
their seats. I was in shock. I dont think I ever felt so sick.
More than a hundred bodies have been found so far, with some located as far as 6.2 miles (10 km) away
from the crash site. I found one body that went through the roof of a house and landed in someones
bedroom, says Sessini. Its a real nightmare.
Sessini noted that while some of the bodies were virtually intact, others had broken apart in the
explosion and crash. But for the seasoned photographer, one of the hardest sights to take in wasnt the
dead themselves, but the mementos from their lives, strewn across the ground. One of the saddest
parts was to see all of their luggage in the grass, he says. All these Duty Free bags, the swimsuits, the
childrens books.
I dont think Ill be able to board a plane without thinking about these images, Sessini says.
-interview by Olivier Laurent

Jerome Sessini is a French photojournalist represented by Magnum. Megan Gibson is a writer and
reporter at the London bureau of TIME. Find her on Twitter at @MeganJGibson. Olivier Laurent is the
editor of TIME LightBox. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram @olivierclaurent.


Eindhoven (Netherlands) (AFP) - The first bodies from flight MH17 arrived in the
Netherlands on Wednesday almost a week after it was shot down over Ukraine, as
the conflict flared yet again near the Malaysian airliner's crash site.
Uniformed Dutch military personnel solemnly hoisted 40 wooden coffins from two
planes and placed them in individual hearses at Eindhoven airport in the south of the
country in a powerfully sombre ceremony, as a trumpeter played the Last Post and a
large crowd of the bereaved watched, shielded from the press.
The televised two-hour ceremony watched across the Netherlands and abroad came in
stark contrast to the chaotic and disturbing scenes filmed in the aftermath of the plane
crash.
Church bells rang throughout the country as the planes touched down in a much-
delayed return for the first as-yet unidentified remains of the 298 people killed in the
disaster, most of them Dutch.
In a dramatic new development in the conflict hampering the recovery and investigation
effort, Kiev said missiles fired from Russia -- accused by the West of provoking the
MH17 disaster -- took down two of its warplanes in the rebel-controlled area of the
crash.
The Netherlands has been united in grief and growing anger because of delays in
getting bodies home and over the way pro-Russian separatists have treated the site, the
victims' remains and personal possessions.
The planes left from Kharkiv in Ukraine, where the remains were carried on board by
army cadets before a small party of officials.
- 1,000 bereaved -
Around 1,000 bereaved relatives of the 193 Dutch dead, King Willem-Alexander and
Queen Maxima, Prime Minister Mark Rutte and representatives of the other nations that
lost citizens on the flight met the planes.
The bodies were then driven under police escort to a military base at Hilversum,
southeast of Amsterdam, where forensics experts will identify them.
Flags of the 17 nations that lost citizens flew at half mast at the airport. Malaysia
Airways counted 11 nationalities on the passenger manifest, but some had double
nationality.
Motorways along the 100-kilometre (65-mile) route from Eindhoven to Hilversum were
closed for the long convoy to pass, with crowds gathering on bridges overhead to throw
flowers at the hearses.
A minute's silence was observed nationwide, during which no flights landed or took off
at Amsterdam Schiphol airport, from where the doomed Boeing 777 left on Thursday.
US intelligence officials have said they believe rebels mistakenly shot down the plane
flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with a surface-to-air missile.
Violence erupted again Wednesday in the zone of the crash, as the International
Committee of the Red Cross said it considered Ukraine to be in a state of civil war, and
warned both sides to abide by the Geneva Conventions.
Ukraine said it appeared that missiles that shot down two of its fighter jets in the volatile
east were fired from Russia.
"According to preliminary information, the rockets were launched from Russian
territory," Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council said.
A spokesman for the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic told AFP its fighters
shot down the two aircraft.
Both pilots managed to parachute out of the Su-25 jets, which the security council said
were flying at an altitude of 5,200 metres.
It said the planes came down some 45 kilometres (25 miles) south-east of the MH17
crash site towards the Russian border.
- DNA samples taken -
Experts and world leaders have expressed concern that not all victims' remains have
been recovered from the sprawling impact site, littered with poignant fragments from
hundreds of destroyed lives.
More bodies are due to arrive in the Netherlands on Thursday, among the 200 which
Dutch officials in Ukraine say they have received from the rebels.
Rutte has warned it could take months for the bodies to be identified, although some are
expected to be returned to families soon.
Dutch police have been visiting the bereaved for counselling but also to retrieve DNA
samples such as from hairbrushes, details of tattoos and fingerprints, as well as medical
and dental records, to help with the identification.
- 'Massive obstacles -
The rebels controlling the crash site released the first bodies and handed over two black
boxes to Malaysian officials only after intense international pressure.
The black boxes were delivered to Britain for expert analysis, and Dutch analysts said
on Wednesday they had successfully downloaded the data from the cockpit voice
recorder and there was no evidence it had been tampered with.
The flight data recorder is to be analysed on Thursday, the investigators said.
A truce has been declared by rival sides around the impact site, but international
investigators still face massive obstacles.
Kiev said the Netherlands and other countries that lost citizens are proposing to send
police to secure the area, amid concerns vital evidence has been tampered with.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged to "do everything" to influence the
separatists and ensure a full probe.
Putin is staring down fresh European sanctions just a week after the latest set was
unveiled over its role in the Ukraine crisis, which has chilled East-West tensions to the
lowest point in years.
And Ukrainian government troops are pushing on with their offensive to wrest control of
east Ukraine's industrial heartland from the pro-Moscow separatists.