{"id":45169,"date":"2014-07-18T16:02:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T16:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_russian_separatists_mistook_malaysian_jet_for_transport_planes\/"},"modified":"2014-07-18T16:02:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T16:02:21","slug":"london_times_russian_separatists_mistook_malaysian_jet_for_transport_planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45169","title":{"rendered":"([London Times]) Russian separatists \u201d\u02dcmistook Malaysian jet for transport plane\u2019+shot it down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-Russian rebels shot down a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine after mistaking it for a military transport plane, according to phone-tapped recordings released by authorities in Kiev.<\/p>\n<p>The recordings suggest that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, which had 283 passengers and 15 crew aboard, was targeted by a Cossack unit supporting the separatist forces in the Donetsk region.<\/p>\n<p>It took the rebels about an hour to get to the scene of the crash and work out that the plane was not, as they had thought, a Ukrainian air force Antonov-26 but a passing passenger plane &#8211; prompting a Cossack commander to suggest that the aircraft must have been carrying spies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d\u009dThey shouldn\u2019t be ****ing flying. There is a war going on,\u201d\u009d he says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/news\/world\/europe\/article4151200.ece\">Read it all<\/a> (requires subscription).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-Russian rebels shot down a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine after mistaking it for a military transport plane, according to phone-tapped recordings released by authorities in Kiev. The recordings suggest that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, which had 283 passengers and 15<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45169\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,175,143,168,200,144,151,479,34,469],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-politics-in-general","category-russia","category-theology","category-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}