CNN Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield July 17, 2014 16:15:00
>> absolutely. if you look at the map, donetsk, right around that particular area on the yukraine/russian border which clearly leads towards one answer in that point. barbara makes a very good point. commercial aircraft are well used to flying around, over, through, avoiding conflict zones. normally they're a notice to airmen. there will be all sorts of warnings. they've had it in iran, in iraq, in georgia. i'm not sure why in this particular case they wouldn't have been except that there wasn't a need to be. a ground squirmish is not the same thing as a full-scale ground-to-air missiles with ...
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