{"id":256911,"date":"2016-07-20T08:22:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T08:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fraud-alleged-in-nyts-mh-17-report\/"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:19:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T16:19:38","slug":"fraud-alleged-in-nyts-mh-17-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/fraud-alleged-in-nyts-mh-17-report\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fraud\u2019 Alleged in NYT\u2019s MH-17 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> An amateur report alleging Russian doctoring of satellite photos on\u00a0the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 case \u2013 a finding embraced by The New York Times \u2013 is denounced by a forensic expert as an \u201coutright fraud,\u201d reports Robert Parry.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-20247\"\/>By Robert Parry<\/p>\n<p>Forensic experts are challenging an amateur report \u2013 touted in The New York Times \u2013 that claimed Russia faked satellite imagery of Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile batteries in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, the day that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot out of the sky killing 298 people.<\/p>\n<p>In a Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hackerfactor\/status\/754651165288128512\"><u>exchange<\/u><\/a>, Dr. Neal Krawetz, founder of the FotoForensics digital image analytical tool, wrote: \u201c\u2018Bad analysis\u2019 is an understatement. This \u2018report\u2019 is outright fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12440\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/malaysia-airways-boeing777.jpg\"><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-boeing777-160x106.jpg 160w, 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-boeing777-160x106.jpg 160w, 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>Another computer imaging expert, Masami Kuramoto, wrote, \u201cThis is either amateur hour or supposed to deceive audiences without tech background,\u201d to which Krawetz responded: \u201cWhy \u2018or\u2019? Amateur hour AND deceptive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, The New York Times, which usually disdains Internet reports even from qualified experts, chose to highlight the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armscontrolwonk.com\/archive\/1201635\/mh17-anniversary\/\"><u>report<\/u><\/a> by arms control researchers at armscontrolwonk.com who appear to have little expertise in the field of forensic photographic analysis.<\/p>\n<p>The Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/16\/world\/europe\/malaysia-airlines-flight-17-russia.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FMalaysia%20Airlines%20Flight%2017&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=timestopics&amp;region=stream&amp;module=stream_unit&amp;version=latest&amp;contentPlacem\"><u>article<\/u><\/a> suggested that the Russians were falsely claiming that the Ukrainian military had Buk missile systems in eastern Ukraine on the day that MH-17 was shot down. But the presence of Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile batteries in the area has been confirmed by Western intelligence, including a <u>report<\/u> issued last October on\u00a0the findings of the Dutch intelligence agency which had access to NATO\u2019s satellite and other data collection.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the Netherlands\u2019 Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) concluded that the only anti-aircraft weapons in eastern Ukraine capable of bringing down MH-17 at 33,000 feet belonged to the Ukrainian government, not the ethnic Russian rebels. MIVD made that assessment in the context of explaining why commercial aircraft&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2016\/07\/19\/fraud-alleged-in-nyts-mh-17-report\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: An amateur report alleging Russian doctoring of satellite photos on\u00a0the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 case \u2013 a finding embraced by The New York Times \u2013 is denounced by a forensic expert as an \u201coutright fraud,\u201d reports Robert Parry. By Robert Parry Forensic experts are challenging an amateur report \u2013 touted in The New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-256911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256911","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=256911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}