Hiding Then Spinning

From MT:
"Ukraine Rebel Commander Acknowledges Fighters Had BUK Missile"

A powerful Ukrainian rebel leader has confirmed that pro-Russian separatists had an anti-aircraft missile of the type Washington says was used to shoot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 and it could have originated in Russia.  In an interview with Reuters, Alexander Khodakovsky, commander of the Vostok Battalion, acknowledged for the first time since the airliner was brought down in eastern Ukraine on Thursday that the rebels did possess the BUK missile system and said it could have been sent back subsequently to remove proof of its presence.  Before the Malaysian plane was shot down, rebels had boasted of obtaining the BUK missiles, which can shoot down airliners at cruising height. But since the disaster the separatists' main group, the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk, has repeatedly denied ever having possessed such weapons.  Since the airliner crashed with the loss of all 298 on board, the most contentious issue has been who fired the missile that brought the jet down in an area where government forces are fighting pro-Russian rebels.  Khodakovsky blamed the Kiev authorities for provoking what may have been the missile strike that destroyed the doomed airliner, saying Kiev had deliberately launched air strikes in the area, knowing the missiles were in place.  The officials said the "most plausible explanation" for the destruction of the plane was that the separatists fired a Russian-made SA-11 — also known as a BUK — missile at it after mistaking it for another kind of aircraft.  U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has said it is convinced the airliner was brought down by an SA-11 ground-to-air missile fired from territory in eastern Ukraine controlled by pro-Russian separatists.  Other separatist leaders have said they did not bring the Malaysian plane down. Russia has denied involvement.  Khodakovsky is a former head of the "Alpha" anti-terrorism unit of the security service in Donetsk, and one of the few major rebel commanders in Donetsk who actually hails from Ukraine rather than Russia. There has been friction in the past between him and rebel leaders from outside the region, such as Igor Strelkov, the Muscovite who has declared himself commander of all rebel forces in Donetsk province.

^ I am shocked! A terrorist group shoots down a plane killing nearly 300 people, harasses and tries to stop the outside world from knowing the truth or viewing the wreckage and the bodies and then when the truth is being made clear they admit they had the missile and try to spin their story again. If these ethnic-Russian terrorists really had nothing to do with the attack or did the attack by mistake then they would have immediately came out to the world and admitted everything. Instead they acted like weasels and now the rest of the world only sees that. ^

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/ukraine-rebel-commander-acknowledges-fighters-had-buk-missile/503995.html