The United States and other Western powers were tonight grasping for intelligence on the precise circumstances of the loss of the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 over eastern Ukraine today amid troubling, if as yet unproven, suspicions that Russia may in the end be forced to take either direct or indirect responsibility. The diplomatic fall-out from the disaster was potentially enormous in scope and complexity but determining what it could be exactly has to await confirmation on what befell the aircraft. If indeed it was shot down, the question of who targeted it, and with what, will become paramount. …read more
Source: The Independent
