I have to say this is sad and have to say two Australians who died worked at the school l work at And have to say we have had teachers and students upset by this the teachers name was Frankie and her husband Liam l work in the catering part of the school and have to say l knew these two personly but l associated and had conversations with both There will be a memorial service where teachers students can attend I know we hear of these things happening but you don't expect it to be two wonderful people Frankie was a teacher at the school for 20yrs her husband liam was a teacher at a local Rage teaching writing and was a arthor and has two books out Also they had two children 23 and 26 and they went overseas to cost there son and there daughter was there too
They had booked the plane but could only book two tickets so the daughter decided to take a earlier flight she was waiting for mum and dad to arrive in aus and well we all know what happened But have to say out of 37 aus I was shocked to know that we lost two beautiful people we have a church at the school and it was covered inside with flowers and there was a condonese book where everyone put down beautiful things Umm it is just so sad RIP Frankie and Liam you will be missed
Re: Re: Malaysian Airlines Passenger Jet Crashes In Ukraine
Yeah, really. This is why I have always said (to some varying degrees of agreement or hatred, that Germany should have won WW2, because Stalin and his little puppet govt's would have been a memory.
Korea, Vietnam, The Cuban Missile Crisis, Pol Pot's Killing Fields, the arming of several Middle Eastern states (most notably Lybia and Syria, which still has Cold War era Soviet bases. Egypt in the 60's was almost the stage for the Suez Canal and in the 70's the second stab at WW3 (withthe Cuban Missile crisis being the first.)
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I wouldn't say it's the exact same thing. 007 was in restricted Soviet airspace so they kinda sorta have that excuse. This is more or less a state-sponsored terrorist attack.
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Right, but the effects will probably be similar. One helped to foster anti-Soviet sentiments, the other will foster anti-Russian(or, hopefully, anti-Putin) sentiments.
__________________ And from the ashes he rose, like a black cloud. The Sin of one became the Sin of many.
And if it were a Soviet aircraft in someone else's restricted airspace, we'd hear that it was "an act of aggression" and we'd never hear the end of it.
Very true. As I said earlier, any credibility the Russians may have had is finished, kaput. No doubt this will leave the door open for a case of one upmanship until there's an outright war. No doubt both sides are planning their next moves.
It's just sad that a group of innocent passengers had to be the pawns in someone's twisted game.
A Dutch court on Thursday convicted three men of murder for their role in shooting down a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet with a Russian surface-to-air missile, killing all 298 people aboard the aircraft as it flew over a separatist-controlled region of eastern Ukraine in 2014.
The convictions, along with the life sentences handed to the two Russians and a pro-Moscow Ukrainian who were tried in absentia, were seen as directing the blame for the jet’s downing at the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin, even though the Kremlin has always denied any connection to it.
The trial, held in a courtroom near Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport where Flight MH17 took off for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, put the Kremlin’s involvement in the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine at the heart of the case. -snip
A small measure of justice for the families of the 298 victims.
Jul 17th, 2014 04:42 PM
