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MOSCOW (AP) A top pro-Russia rebel commander in eastern Ukraine has given a version of events surrounding the Malaysian jetliner crash suggesting many of the victims may have died days before the plane took off.
The pro-rebel website Russkaya Vesna on Friday quoted Igor Girkin as saying he was told by people at the crash site that a significant number of the bodies werent fresh, adding that he was told they were drained of blood and reeked of decomposition.
Girkin, also known as Strelkov and allegedly a former Russian military intelligence agent, said he couldnt confirm the information. But its sure to add to the intense emotions surrounding the crash, with the rebels accused of shooting down the plane.
Girkin said Ukrainian authorities are capable of any baseness.
http://www.salon.com/2014/07/18/rebel_suggests_malaysia_plane_victims_long_dead/
LordGlenconner
(1,348 posts)These people may be even more slap dick than the Bundy Ranch folks, if that's possible.
conservaphobe
(1,284 posts)gwheezie
(3,580 posts)RKP5637
(67,108 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)Something very similar was part of the plot in the dominatrix story-line on Sherlock not too long ago....
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)There will be a special maybe to air in 2015 and a new season in 2016.
http://screenrant.com/sherlock-one-off-special-before-season-4/
Coventina
(27,120 posts)Seems the Russia backed rebels are Cumberbitches!
Not that I blame them for THAT! I am as well!
But really, I wouldn't try to cover my crimes with stealing the plot of one of the episodes.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)countingbluecars
(4,766 posts)when they were boarding the plane. How insane is that commander!
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Decomposition starts at death and proceeds rather quickly, especially in humid environments with temperatures in the high 80s, as was the case around Torez, Ukraine yesterday.
Coventina
(27,120 posts)due to the contents of the bowels being released.
(Sorry to be so graphic, but it's true).
nykym
(3,063 posts)Millennium
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)thucythucy
(8,052 posts)which is really bomb....
herding cats
(19,564 posts)That anyone could put forth such nasty BS as a fact is sick as hell!
GusBob
(7,286 posts)In Russia there is very little alternative media so they put out this propaganda for the people other than outsiders to read. Its how they control the narrative. IOWs it doesn't matter what outsiders think
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)CatWoman
(79,302 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Of course they were not fresh, they were just blown up
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)All that is missing is the vampire!
randys1
(16,286 posts)xfundy
(5,105 posts)In the cargo hold. In cardboard boxes. On their way back home to be buried by their families.
Most people have never thought about it, but shipping bodies is big business for airlines. Say you lived in California but died in England. Your loved ones want the body for a last goodbye.
Any flight you board may have a body, hopefully wrapped in plastic, in a box as big as a casket. I used to do contract work for a major US airline, and competition for the funereal industry is a big deal for them. They don't even have to serve half a can of soft drink in a plastic cup!
Having said all that, I doubt a significant number of the bodies werent fresh, unless the flight was a cargo plane. So, I call BS.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)JHB
(37,160 posts)A conservative chorus arose making the exact same claim -- and of course, Reagan played footsie with them. Not making the claim itself, but treating it like a realistic possibility that needed to be looked into.
Turbineguy
(37,331 posts)as a republican in the US.
Crunchy Frog
(26,587 posts)Algernon Moncrieff
(5,790 posts)Someone took a plane; loaded it with bodies; and then flew the plane into a combat zone in such a way to ensure that it would be shot down.
This is what I'm supposed to believe?
Takket
(21,568 posts)How about saying the bodies had amercian and Ukrainian flags branded on them, and "death to putin" too!
If you are going to bust out with insane propaganda that nobody is going to believe, you may as well go "all in!"
Kaleva
(36,301 posts)and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it." - Walter Langer