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Fearless

(18,421 posts)
Thu Jul 17, 2014, 08:50 PM Jul 2014

Top Researchers Traveling To International AIDS Conference Killed In Malaysian Crash

Several passengers aboard Malaysian flight MH17, which was shot down near the Ukraine-Russia border by a Russian surface-to-air missile, reportedly were AIDS researchers and staff traveling to the International AIDS Conference in Melbourne.

Reports are coming in from friends and colleagues that several, and possibly dozens, of the nearly 300 passengers aboard Malaysian flight MH17, enroute to Australia when it was blown out of the sky without warning by a Russian surface-to-air missile, were headed to the 20th anniversary of the International AIDS Conference in Melbourne.

http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/breaking_researchers_traveling_to_international_aids_conference_killed_in_malaysian_crash

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Top Researchers Traveling To International AIDS Conference Killed In Malaysian Crash (Original Post) Fearless Jul 2014 OP
Oh DAMN theHandpuppet Jul 2014 #1
My wife has a colleague attending the conference ... DreamGypsy Jul 2014 #2

DreamGypsy

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2. My wife has a colleague attending the conference ...
Fri Jul 18, 2014, 12:46 AM
Jul 2014

...and, though she is not certain, she thinks he is traveling the other direction (west from the U.S. west coast).

There is some reported evidence that the missile was launched by Ukrainian separatists:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/18/world/europe/us-officials-say-they-suspect-sa-11-or-sa-20-missiles-brought-down-malaysia-jet.html?partner=rss&emc=rss


Ukraine released what it said was audio from phone calls between rebels and Russian officers after the downing of Malaysia Airlines 17. In one call, a rebel says, “We have just shot down a plane.” Publish Date July 17, 2014.


I suspect the occupants of the plane were incidental to the killers. Just a show of strength.

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