U.S. Officials: No Evidence Of Direct Russian Link To Malaysia Plane Crash
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By KEN DILANIAN
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior U.S. intelligence officials said
Tuesday that Russia was responsible for "creating the conditions"
that led to the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, but they offered
no evidence of direct Russian government involvement.
The intelligence officials were cautious in their
assessment, noting that while the Russians have been arming separatists in
eastern Ukraine, the U.S. had no direct evidence that the missile used to shoot
down the passenger jet came from Russia.
The officials briefed reporters Tuesday under ground rules
that their names not be used in discussing intelligence related to last week's
air disaster, which killed 298 people.
The plane was likely shot down by an SA-11 surface-to-air
missile fired by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, the
intelligence officials said, citing intercepts, satellite photos and social
media postings by separatists, some of which have been authenticated by U.S.
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