Malaysia Flight MH17
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- detritus0
Also — where the passports are concerned..
I — for reasons that are beyond me — watched a really sad series of videos the other week about the aftermath of an artillery strike on a civilian Russian rebel-held area. In it you see a number of mangled bodies, and amongst them one woman, broken and twisted, but still barely alive, gesturing for help. As the videos progress, she gradually dies, unaided by the pathetically-panicking smartphone footage-taker who doesn't have a clue what to do, locked in recording and sobbing.
Really, really sad.
Anyway, after the lady dies, you see in the background another woman going around the bodies, ostensibly checking them.. but then she quite clearly removes at least a ring from the very-recently-deceased's finger.
I'd like to think she was a friend and was keeping it safe for the deceased's family.. but then just as equally, life is probably not great over there, so she may as well be taking it because it has value for her own situation, her own survival.
Whatever.
Passports are worth a fucking fortune. They're also, if you're an authority (read: solider/local commander/etc) valuable as data points or evidence for whatever.
What I'm saying is - there're perfectly 'legitimate', non-conspirational reasons for there to be a bunch of passports very quickly rounded up.
- Just like they found a passport in the rubble of one of the terrorists involved in 911. Utterly hilarious.********
- That was a bit neat, yes.detritus
- Just like they found a passport in the rubble of one of the terrorists involved in 911. Utterly hilarious.