US Satellite Images Crucial To Probe Of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17
By ALIZA SHAH - 30 October 2014 @ 8:10 AM
KUALA LUMPUR: THE Dutch team leading the criminal investigation into the shootdown of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 is still waiting crucial data from the United States to help in their probe.
The “intelligence mother lode” in this case would be high-resolution images from US surveillance satellites on their overpass over the area in eastern Ukraine, where the Boeing 777-200ER was shot down.
The US had said that it had satellite images of the area to support its claims that Russia regularly fires missiles into Ukrainian territory.
Media reports, which quoted a Reuters’ interview with the Dutch team, said investigators had said that the “US was not being any more cooperative, refusing to send its intelligence data to the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 investigative team”.
“But the Dutch diplomatically blamed technicalities in US laws for the lack of American cooperation.
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