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Another US claim about the downing of Malaysian flight over Ukraine goes up in smoke.

"So here we are, with no US smoking gun (thus far). Only social media and highly suspect voice intercepts and satellite photos of BUK launchers.
Russia “shares responsibility” for the shoot-down because, according to the US, it provided training and weapons to the separatists in eastern Ukraine. Only according to a CNN reportbased on a classified intelligence assessment, “there is no intelligence suggesting Russia ever transferred [a BUK missile system] across the border.”"

$100 billion buys nothing but uncertainty.

Ukrainian separatists shoot down two coupmeister fighter jets.

279 killed, 144 injured in Iraq.