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Of course there's dozens of articles there. What makes you think this source is credible?

If a passenger aircraft was supposedly shot down with a surface-to-air missile over, for example, Argentina, would you expect an international investigation team to say they checked with Argentinian air defence bases and made sure their launchers don't have traces of a recent launch? Has JIT said anything of this sort?

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I've tried to summarize here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17191001

> What makes you think this source is credible?

This is an international investigation team. I think it's credible enough.

Imagine a similar incident in, say, Syria, investigated by an international team lead by Russians with some involvement of Belarus and Iran. Let's say they publish a report blaming US-supported rebels. Would you lend the same credence to this hypothetical report?

Add North Korea and Abkhazia to the list and you will get your answer.

Why not. That probably makes the team even more international. I even heard North Korea has quite a bit of expertise in missiles.

I just read the fresh news about Malaysian minister not convinced with the evidence [1] and have to admit you can be right here. We'll see what happens next, but it doesn't seem entirely impossible that this bunch of officials is indeed just one nation too diverse to lie in concert.

[1] https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/no-conclusive-evid...

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