ROTTERDAM, October 12 -- When exactly a month ago the supposedly objective, impartial Netherlands released its official, 34-page preliminary report of the MH-17 crash over Ukraine, presumably based on black box data, air traffic control records, and other "authentic, verified" information, there were precisely zero mentions of "oxygen", "mask" or "oxygen mask." Which is odd, because in what should become the biggest Freudian slip scandal in false-flag history, certainly since the Gulf of Tonkin, yesterday Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans accidentally revealed for the very first time ever, that one of the Australian passengers aboard the doomed airplane "appears to have donned an oxygen mask before the fatal crash, suggesting some on board might have been aware of their impending deaths, a Dutch official disclosed." Clearly a crucial aspect of the crash, as it points at the severity of the alleged explosion, yet one which was not noted until yesterday and which completely skipped the purvey of the official crash report for reasons unknown. Needless to say, this makes a complete mockery of the story that the plane had exploded upon impact with the "Russian" missile, and is why there was supposedly no trace of any impact on the flight's black box recorder. Whether or not it also means that the alternative theory that a Ukraine jet had purposefully downed the Malaysian aircraft to serve as a pretext to implicate Russia, is unclear. But it also means that yet another conspiracy theory becomes fact: namely that whoever were the western powers who doctored and manipulated the "official" crash report of MH-17 to implicate Putin, not only lied but fabricated evidence. Immediately upon realization just how serious the implications of this slip are, the damage control started, but it was too late. From the LA Times: "Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans apologized on Thursday for making the revelation on a television talk show the previous night, before the families of the 298 victims of the disaster had been notified of the disturbing discovery." Timmermans gave an emotional speech at the United Nations four days after the crash in which he imagined the terrified passengers exchanging glances "one final time, in an unarticulated goodbye." When talk show host Jeroen Pauw interviewed Timmermans on Wednesday night, he provoked the minister with accusations that he had dramatized the victims' last moments as a preliminary investigation report suggests that the Boeing 777's destruction was so swift that those on board were unlikely to have known anything was amiss. "They did not see the rocket coming, but you know someone was found with an oxygen mask on his mouth?” Timmermans replied, according to the NL Times translation of his comments. "He thus had the time to do that. We cannot rule it out." Well, actually we did not know because the official report that your country released Mr. Timmermans, and which we posted a month ago said that "high-energy objects from outside the aircraft" struck the airplane as it flew at an altitude of 33,000 feet, suggesting it had been struck by a missile. Nothing on the flight data or cockpit voice recorders indicated the crew or passengers took any action in response to the fatal impact. "Which means the entire report is a fabrication" So what did happen? The mask found around the neck of the unnamed passenger, one of 88 Australian citizens and residents on board, was tested for fingerprints, saliva and DNA but produced no forensic evidence, De Bruin said. "So it is not known how or when that mask got around the neck of the victim," he said. The discovery of the mask and the implications it raised about the passengers' final moments were conveyed to the Australian's family before Timmermans' interview on Wednesday night, the prosecutor's office said. But information was sent out to other family members of the MH-17 victims only on Thursday morning. Timmermans issued a statement Thursday saying he regretted making the comment. We are confident that everyone else in the false-flag waving Western camp very much regretted Timmermans' comment as well.
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THE HAGUE, October 9 -- One of those killed in the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine had an oxygen mask on when the body was recovered, Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said on Thursday. The latest finding questions the earlier theory that the 298 victims on board the tragic flight had been killed instantly and indicates that they may have remained conscious after the Boeing aircraft was shot down. “People hardly had time to notice the missile coming, but do you know that one of the victims was found with an oxygen mask over the mouth?” the HOC TV channel quoted the minister as saying. “This means that someone had time to do that. At least, we cannot rule out this possibility,” Timmermans said. The Boeing 777-200 of the Malaysia Airlines en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed on July 17 in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk Region, some 60 km (over 37 miles) from the Russian border, in the zone of combat operations between the Donetsk self-defense forces and the Ukrainian army. All the 283 passengers and 15 crew onboard the aircraft died. Most of the passengers — 196 people — were Dutch citizens. The Dutch Safety Board, which is leading the investigation and coordinating the international team of investigators, said in its preliminary report in early September that “Flight MH17 with a Boeing 777-200 operated by Malaysia Airlines broke up in the air probably as the result of structural damage caused by a large number of high-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside.” The preliminary report included no information on the oxygen mask. Forensic experts have been unable to recover all the bodies from the crash site due to the fighting in the area. The search resumed after the warring sides agreed on a ceasefire around the airliner wreckage area and on a security corridor for the arrival of experts and their work at the crash site. Source: Agencies HANOI, October 3 -- The bodies of a Vietnamese woman and her daughter who were killed in the MH17 disaster have been identified in the Netherlands, the foreign ministry has said. However, her son, who was on board the same flight, is yet to be identified, foreign ministry spokesman Le Hai Binh said at a news conference in Hanoi Thursday. Nguyen Ngoc Minh, 37, her daughter Dang Minh Chau, 17 and son Dang Quoc Duy, 13, were all born in Vietnam but later acquired Dutch citizenship. They were returning to Hanoi from the Netherlands for the summer holiday when the Malaysia Airlines flight was shot down in the Ukraine in July.The crash claimed the lives of all 298 people on board. As of Sep. 30, 251 victims were identified, according to Dutch authorities. "Their relatives in Vietnam have been informed. We are cooperating closely with the authorities in the Netherlands and Malaysia to [repatriate] the victims,” spokesman Binh said.Vietnam has also urged concerned agencies in the Netherlands to continue with the identification of Dang Quoc Duy, Binh said. Source: Agencies SINGAPORE, October 3 -- Five more bodies from the Malaysian passenger aircraft, which crashed in Ukraine’s southeast over two months ago, were airlifted from Amsterdam to the airport in Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur on Friday. The aircraft carrying the bodies was met at the airport was met by members of the Malaysian Royal family along with government officials and after the plane landed in Kuala Lumpur a minute of silence was observed to commemorate the victims of the tragic crash. The Boeing 777-200 of the Malaysia Airlines en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed on July 17 in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk Region, some 60 km (over 37 miles) from the Russian border, in the zone of combat operations between the Donetsk self-defense forces and the Ukrainian army. All the passengers and crewmembers onboard the aircraft - 298 people - died. Most of the passengers - 196 people - were Dutch citizens. Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Tun Hussein earlier said that a total of 42 bodies of the Malaysian nationals killed in the July plane crash were brought home, while bodies of two more Malaysian citizens were considered either missing or still unidentified. The Dutch Safety Board, which is leading the investigation and coordinating the international team of investigators, said in its preliminary report last month that “Flight MH17 with a Boeing 777-200 operated by Malaysia Airlines broke up in the air probably as the result of structural damage caused by a large number of high-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside.” International experts from the Netherlands, Australia and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) began arriving at the airliner crash site near the settlement of Gabovo, 79 km (49 miles) north of Donetsk, since July 31 in search of the missing bodies of passengers and aircraft’s remains. Before that, they had not been able to carry out their search operation for a week over incessant fighting between the local self-defense militia and pro-Kiev troops. The search resumed after the warring sides agreed on a ceasefire around the airliner wreckage area and on a security corridor for the arrival of experts and their work at the crash site. Source: Agencies
A sampling of these two issues was provided by Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop during the UN Security Council (UNSC) ministerial debate on Iraq, chaired by US Secretary of State John Kerry, on Friday. Malaysian Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman addressed the UNSC on that day too. Australia has been "actively affected" by the two issues, as one Australian official told Bernama on condition of anonymity. According to United States sources, there has been an informal "division of labour" drawn out between the US and Australia. While the US is coordinating with Arab countries and its traditional Western allies to form a coalition to combat the Islamic state menace, Australian interlocutors have started meeting counterparts from a number of Southeast Asian countries, particularly the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia to work out a strategy to counter their threat. About 40 Malaysians, including ex-ISA detainees, have gone to the war zone in Syria to fight where multiple factions are vying for supremacy. Source: Agencies NEW YORK, September 21 -- A final report on the results of the investigation into the crash of the Malaysian passenger aircraft in Ukraine two months ago will be presented next summer, Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said. The Boeing 777-200 of the Malaysia Airlines en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed on July 17 in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk Region, some 60 km (over 37 miles) from the Russian border, in the zone of combat operations between the Donetsk self-defense forces and the Ukrainian army. All the passengers and crewmembers onboard the aircraft - 298 people - died. Most of the passengers - 196 people - were Dutch citizens. Speaking at the UN Security Council’s session in New York on Friday, Timmermans said nothing would obstruct the completion of the investigation even the inability to conduct it at the site of the crash in Ukraine’s southeast. The top Dutch diplomat also said that the investigation into the crash is independent and no other party has the power to influence it. Last week Alexander Lukashevich, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said it seemed that the international commission investigating the crash of the Malaysian airliner in Ukraine had been intentionally dragging out the investigation as a result of pressure from some Western powers. “We point out that the process of the [report’s] publication and the process itself is delayed on purpose by the international commission,” Lukashevich said. “The presented report does not hold any convincing information on the circumstances of the airliner’s crash and the most important expertize was not conducted.” Related article: Preliminary report (.PDF) on causes of MH17 disaster published in Netherlands BERLIN, September 21 -- Survivors of German victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 downed over Ukraine plan to sue the country and its president Petro Poroshenko for manslaughter by negligence in 298 cases. Professor of aviation law, Elmar Giemulla, who is representing three families of German victims, said that under international law Ukraine should have closed its air space if it could not guarantee the safety of flights. "Each state is responsible for the security of its air space," Giemulla said in a statement emailed to Reuters. "If it is not able to do so temporarily, it must close its air space. As that did not happen, Ukraine is liable for the damage." Giemulla is saying that by not closing its airspace, Ukraine had accepted that the lives of hundreds of innocent people would be "annihilated" and this was a violation of human rights. The jetliner crashed in Ukraine in pro-Russian rebel-held territory on July 17, killing 298 people, two-thirds of them from the Netherlands. Four Germans died in the crash. Ukraine and Western countries have accused the rebels of shooting the plane down with an advanced, Russian-made missile. Russia has rejected accusations that it supplied the rebels with SA-11 Buk anti-aircraft missile systems. Giemulla planned to hand his case to the European Court of Human Rights in about two weeks, accusing Ukraine and its President Petro Poroshenko of manslaughter by negligence in 298 cases. He would also push for compensation of up to one million euros per victim. So far, the airline has offered survivors of each victim $5,000 in financial assistance but has said that would not be taken off final compensation or affect families' legal rights to claim. Source: Agencies VIENNA, September 15 -- Monitors from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) came under artillery fire at the MH17 crash site in eastern Ukraine on September 14, their report released on Monday said. It said “the patrol vehicles were damaged by artillery or mortar fire … the team left the area in the remaining useable vehicle and returned to Donetsk city”. In an earlier report, the OSCE said its monitors and representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) had come under a mortar attack in Donetsk, with shells exploding some 100-200 metres away. The head of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan on Monday urged all parties to the conflict in Ukraine to allow monitors to carry out their duties and verification of the ceasefire regime safely. The statement followed a series of incidents which had put the OSCE monitors’ lives at risk. “We profoundly regret the fact that our teams were substantially endangered during the course of their agreed monitoring mission. This is entirely unacceptable,” Apakan said. On the evening of 14 September, vehicles of an SMM patrol monitoring the east of Donetsk were struck by artillery fragments. No one was injured in the incident. On Sunday, monitors came under fire at the MH17 crash site in eastern Ukraine. Source: Agencies MOSCOW, September 13 -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov hopes that the world will ultimately learn the truth about the Boeing 777 crash in Ukraine. “I hope that we are going to learn this truth but that does not depend on me,” Lavrov told TV Tsentr's “Pravo Znat” (The Right to Know) programme. “Russia, its political leadership and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should constantly remind the world of the need to do that. It is not accidental that I cited the U.N. Security Council resolution (whose adoption we actively supported). What’s written in it must be implemented by all. Such is the nature of this document,” the Russian foreign minister said. “All the rest is in the hands of those who have been assigned with the task to conduct this investigation,” Lavrov added. He said that Malaysia’s Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein had visited Russia. "He has been to Ukraine and the Netherlands and is planning to visit Australia,” the Russian foreign minister went on to say. According to him, the Malaysians “want to get our assessments because they know about the preliminary conclusions the Russian Defense Ministry announced at a briefing on July 21; they want to discuss a list of questions formulated by the Federal Air Transport Agency and talk to experts. “We welcome this interest because there are no grounds to refuse from getting comprehensible answers or at least from discussing the questions which we have posed but which have so far remained unanswered,” Lavrov emphasized. Russia is preparing a new set of questions, Lavrov said. “International experts spent three weeks in Kiev, talking with the Ukrainian authorities. No answers were prepared in response to the questions raised after the catastrophe by the Russian Defence Ministry and the Air Transportation Agency. Our representative, who is a member of the international team of experts, is pointing out these ‘oddities’,” Lavrov told TV Tsentr’s Pravo Znat programme (The Right to Know). “We are preparing another set of questions from the Russian aviation authorities to identify issues that require urgent attention. On the whole, as I was told by experts who know how such investigations are conducted, many things that must have been done were not done. I don’t know why. Maybe some benefitted from the situation where hysterical accusations were made against militias and Russia immediately after the accident,” the minister said. “All front pages of newspapers and primetime on television, the Internet were full of that. Now that this ‘propaganda foam’ has been removed, some may not be so eager to investigate the actual causes of the accident,” he said. “This is not our approach. We are probably the only [country] who keep reminding [the world] that there is U.N. Security Council Resolution 2166, which I mentioned before and which calls for an immediate cessation of fire in the area of the crash so that experts could get access. It also says that the investigation must be thorough, international, transparent and accountable,” Lavrov said. “As for the international nature [of the investigation], there seems to be a group of experts under the ICAO aegis, and the organisation is taking steps to begin multilateral discussions, but there is neither transparency nor accountability,” he said. “I am not saying that the U.N. Security Council should conduct the investigation, but it set forth political requirements that match the acuteness of the tragedy and its perception in the countries whose citizens were aboard the plane and the international community as a whole, for it was a commercial plane that was downed,” Lavrov said. Russia is surprised by “a very calm tone” of the report on the investigation of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 accident and by its slow pace, Lavrov said. The Dutch Security Council’s report stated that the plane had fallen into pieces in midair presumably as a result of structural damage caused by external impact from numerous high-energy objects. “The report surprised us and even our specialists who understand these terms… mainly because despite so much fuss around this tragedy its tone is very calm and the work is going unhurriedly and leisurely. There have been no calls for resuming the work of experts at the crash site. There have been no attempts to go out there, collect the pieces and see how the whole plane looked like, and no one ever spoke about this out loud,” the minister told TV Tsentr’s Pravo Znat programme (The Right to Know). “There were many tales about Buks [surface-to-air missile systems],” Lavrov said, commenting on numerous media reports claiming that the system was used to down the plane. He said such allegations had been refuted. “They showed a Buk with a serial number that was moving around in the area controlled by Kiev’s army. And there are many other facts that are not just far-fetched but actually a blatant lie,” Lavrov said. Source: Agencies SINGAPORE, September 12 -- An investigation into the airliner crash in eastern Ukraine is in full swing and being conducted in several directions, Malaysian Prosecutor General Abdul Gani Patail said in an interview published in the New Straits Times newspaper on Friday. Investigators created a virtual form of the plane, using photo and video materials received directly from the crash site. Aside from the international investigation, Malaysia intends to independently find out what caused the crash and find those guilty of the tragedy. Earlier, Patail said Malaysia planned to head the legal process to bring those responsible to justice, since all the evidence belongs to the country. The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that was on a fight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, on July 17, killing all the 298 people who were on board. Source: Agencies SINGAPORE, September 11 -- A team of 30 Malaysian experts is still in Kiev waiting for a go-ahead to continue work at the site of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash over the embattled eastern Ukraine, according to the Malaysian minister of home affairs. Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the team remained on hold as the situation in eastern Ukraine was still unsafe despite a ceasefire declared last Friday and largely holding in the region. The minister said international experts had some 45 days left for work at the site as the cold season was approaching to cover the evidence by snow. The previous search operation in the area continued less than a week, as on August 6 international experts finished their work for safety considerations. Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said specialists had managed to comb less than half of the area, failing to bring any debris from the crash site. A Malaysia Airlines jet carrying 298 people crashed in east Ukraine on July 17 on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. Both sides in Ukraine’s conflict accused each other of shooting down the plane with a missile. Kiev’s military operation designed to regain control over the eastern Ukrainian breakaway Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which on May 11 proclaimed their independence at local referendums, was launched in mid-April and has involved armored vehicles, heavy artillery and attack aviation. The ceasefire was achieved at a meeting of the Contact Group on Ukraine in the Belarussian capital Minsk last Friday. Source: Agencies MOSCOW, September 9 -- Ukraine, Malaysia and the Netherlands could secretly agree not to reveal the facts about the mid-July crash of the Malaysian Boeing in eastern Ukraine, ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern said. In the interview, McGovern said that the United States and Russia know what in fact had happened, while Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and his advisers may not be aware of the details, and in particular, on the air defense system and SU-25 fighter jets in the crash area. Citing a saying that the winner is the one who tells a lie first, McGovern reminded that US Secretary of State John Kerry accused Russia of its alleged role in the tragedy several days after the MH17 crash. McGovern said the intelligence data on the MH17 crash provided by the US Department of State fail to prove anything and thus put US intelligence officials in an embarrassing situation. Earlier on Tuesday, the panel of investigators revealed a preliminary report on the causes of the crash saying that the Malaysia Airlines Boeing-777 fell into pieces during flight after being hit by "a large number of high-energy objects." The cause of the crash is still unclear. The Ukrainian government claims that independence supporters in the country’s eastern regions shot the plane down but it has not provided any evidence to support those claims. Local militia leaders insist that they do not have weapons that could’ve been capable of shooting the MH17 aircraft down. THE HAGUE, September 9 -- The possible cause of Malaysia Airlines’ Boeing 777-200 crash in Ukraine July 17 is “structural damage caused by a large number of high-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside”, The preliminary report conducted by the Dutch Safety Board says that the pattern of wreckage on the ground suggests that the aircraft split into pieces during flight. In particular, the Dutch Safety Board indicated in the report that the flight proceeded normally until 13:20 UTC, after which it ended abruptly. The voice recordings of the pilots point that there were no technical issues on board before the plane crashed. “There are no indications that the MH17 crash was caused by a technical fault or by actions of the crew,” the report says. An additional investigation will be needed in order to establish the precise causes of MH17 crash, and the full report is expected to be issued within a year, the Dutch Safety Board has added. THE HAGUE, September 09 -- Safety Board of the Netherlands published a preliminary report of the causes of the MH17 flight crash in Eastern Ukraine. Well-informed sources say the document will contain the factual information obtained from accessible sources including onboard flight records and radar stations, as well as satellite imaging and other visual sources. The council plans to publish final report within the twelve months after the tragedy that occurred July 17. Safety Board official spokeswoman Sara Vernooij told Itar-Tass earlier it was important to realize that preliminary reports and final reports always had definite difference. She said Safety Board officials were aware of the hopes that the public quarters, including the media pinned on this document but the problem was that only the first data produced in the course of investigation had been made public. This meant that the preliminary report would shed some light on the causes of the tragedy but many questions would remain open, Vernooij said. International investigators have not visited the site of the crash so far but Vernooij said there was no acute need in that visit, as experts could do a careful investigation and draft the final report without it, although a study of certain fragments of the jet lying on the ground and getting confirmation of certain data might still be desirable. The Dutch Safety Board coordinates investigation of the tragedy as of July 23 on the basis of an agreement with the Ukrainian side. The group of international investigators consists of about people including representatives of Australia, Malaysia, the Netherlands, the U.S., Russia, and Ukraine. Investigation procedures comply with the standards of the International Civil Aviation Organization. The team’s main objective is to establish the causes of the crash and to offer recommendations for furthering the safety of flights. The board does not have the right to apportion blame and to lay responsibility for the tragedy on anyone. These issues stay within the scope of powers of the Dutch prosecutorial authorities. Simultaneously, the board is working to provide answers to another two questions - why the jet was traversing precisely that path and why the list of passengers, who had checked in for the flight, was not accessible after the tragedy. Conclusions on them will most likely be known before the publication of the final report. Malaysia Airlines’ Boeing 777 crashed in Ukraine’s much-troubled war-torn Donetsk region July 17 when it was performing a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. All the 298 passengers and crewmembers died. A total of 196 passengers were national of the Netherlands. Source: Agencies |
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