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So command and control is not very strong. theres a complete lack of discipline, which is one reason why you see what you see. >> right. but youre not going to see the ukrainian government move into the area to seize control of the area, because if they had the capability to do that, they would have done it a long time ago. so that crash site is completely compromised. theres no evidence there that will be of any use to anybody whatsoever, especially in view of the fact the united states already...

It includes heavy weapons. and it includes anti-aircraft weapons. >> the anti-aircraft system that the united states says was responsible for the downing of malaysia airlines flight 17 is a soviet-era surface-to-air buk missile also called the sa-11. ukrainian government has those weapons in its possession as well. u.s. was unaware of any ukrainian systems near the scene of the crash, but as the ambassador to the united nations, samantha power, told the security council this morning, there were ...

Cheapest. the thought probably also is that if the aircraft is flying above 32,000, 33,000 feet, it is outside the range of most of the -- of all of the handheld, shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles, which have a slant range under ten miles and cant hit anything up at that level. and without even thinking about the sa-6s and sa-11s. and also complicated by the notion that nobody in his right mind would shoot down a civilian aircraft. and they would know that its a civilian aircraft because it...

Prepared to say at this point in time exactly where it was fired from. on june 2th overtook a base that had these sa 11s. u.s. intelligence source tells me knew they had the sa 11 a few weeks ago. they didnt think it was operational. in the last four days, three planes fall out of the sky in exactly the same location and they started to believe that sa 11 may be operational. >> did they know if that took down those other planes? it seems more likely that the separatists have it but there is no e...