{"id":232071,"date":"2016-03-17T03:43:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T03:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-ever-curiouser-mh-17-case\/"},"modified":"2016-03-17T03:43:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T03:43:48","slug":"the-ever-curiouser-mh-17-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-ever-curiouser-mh-17-case\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ever-Curiouser MH-17 Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"308.8676056338\">\n<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> The shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine has served as a potent\u00a0propaganda club against Russia but the U.S. government is hiding\u00a0key evidence that could solve the mystery, writes Robert Parry.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-18042\"\/>By Robert Parry<\/p>\n<p>The curious mystery surrounding the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014,\u00a0gets more curious and more curious as the U.S. government and Dutch investigators balk at giving straightforward answers to the simplest of questions even when asked by the families of the victims.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to the mystery Dutch investigators have indicated that the Dutch Safety Board did not request radar information from the United States, even though Secretary of State John Kerry indicated just three days after the crash that the U.S. government possessed data that pinpointed the location of the suspected missile launch that allegedly downed the airliner, killing all 298 people onboard.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12440\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/malaysia-airways-boeing777.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12440\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12440\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/malaysia-airways-boeing777-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A Malaysia Airways' Boeing 777 like the one that crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014. (Photo credit: Aero Icarus from Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/malaysia-airways-boeing777-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/malaysia-airways-boeing777-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/malaysia-airways-boeing777-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/malaysia-airways-boeing777.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12440\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/malaysia-airways-boeing777-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A Malaysia Airways' Boeing 777 like the one that crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014. (Photo credit: Aero Icarus from Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/malaysia-airways-boeing777-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/malaysia-airways-boeing777-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/malaysia-airways-boeing777-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/malaysia-airways-boeing777.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Malaysia Airways\u2019 Boeing 777 like the one that crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014. (Photo credit: Aero Icarus from Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Although Kerry claimed that the U.S. government knew the\u00a0location almost immediately, Dutch investigators now say they hope to identify the spot sometime \u201cin the second half of the year,\u201d meaning that something as basic as the missile-launch site might remain unknown to the public more than\u00a0two years after the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>The families of the Dutch victims, including the father of a Dutch-American citizen, have been pressing for an explanation about the slow pace of the investigation and the apparent failure to obtain relevant data from the U.S. and other governments.<\/p>\n<p>I spent time with the family members in early February at the Dutch parliament in The Hague as opposition parliamentarians, led by Christian Democrat Pieter Omtzigt, unsuccessfully sought answers from the government about the absence of radar data and other basic facts.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18044\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/h30knpKj.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18044\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18044\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/h30knpKj-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Dutch parliamentarian Pieter Omtzigt.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/h30knpKj-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/h30knpKj-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/h30knpKj-160x160.jpeg 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/h30knpKj.jpeg 361w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18044\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/h30knpKj-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Dutch parliamentarian Pieter Omtzigt.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/h30knpKj-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/h30knpKj-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/h30knpKj-160x160.jpeg 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/h30knpKj.jpeg 361w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dutch parliamentarian Pieter Omtzigt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>When answers have been provided to the families and the public, they are often hard to understand, as if to obfuscate what information the investigation possesses or doesn\u2019t possess. For instance,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2016\/03\/16\/the-ever-curiouser-mh-17-case\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: The shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine has served as a potent\u00a0propaganda club against Russia but the U.S. government is hiding\u00a0key evidence that could solve the mystery, writes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry The curious mystery surrounding the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014,\u00a0gets more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-232071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}