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From: jj@rabbit.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics
Subject: Re:  Did it really happen?
Message-ID: <1897@rabbit.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Sep-83 12:24:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: rabbit.1897
Posted: Fri Sep  2 12:24:59 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Sep-83 06:01:41 EDT
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	"Subject: Korean Jet
	Message-ID: <2765@rochester.UUCP>
	
	What's up?  Did the jet land or get shot down?  Could it be
	arch-conservative congressman could have decided that he
			. . .
	damned fishy to me.  The Russians are sometimes clumsy, but
	blowing up a real 747 would rate as a major slip, I'd say.
			Politically Aware in Rochester"


PLEASE DO NOT EVEN REPLY TO THIS NOTE UNLESS YOU HAVE INFORMATION
OF A FACTUAL NATURE THAT LEADS YOU TO THE SAME CONCLUSIONS.

DO NOT FLAME AT THE AUTHOR IF YOU DISAGREE.
DO NOT ADD TO THE ATTENTION THAT THE ABOVE MESSAGE GETS, UNLESS YOU HAVE
GOOD REASON!

I don't want flaming at this author (either the above, or me) to obscure
other discussion.
The one thing I wonder about is ?WHY?   I can't understand any
reason why the USSR would shoot down a commercial airliner 
for overflying an area, when that area is photographed twice a
day by sattelite, and heavily monitored for any sign of
electronic activity.  

I don't doubt that it happened, simply because I don't think that the
US news media is either that controlled or that stupid.

I can offer two suggestions to why it happened:
	The first <which I'd like to see proven> is that it
was a mistake on the part of an overzealous commander at whatever
level.
	The second is that there is something hokey going on
on the Kamchatka Peninsula, and we don't know about it yet. I'd
rather that wasn't the case, but close inspection is clearly 
indicated.
rabbit!<uh oh!>jj