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A pro-Russian armed fighter stands in guard on the platform as a refrigerated train loaded with bodies of the passengers departs the station in Torez, eastern Ukraine, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, Monday, July 21, 2014. Another 21 bodies have been found in the sprawling fields of east Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed last week, killing all 298 people aboard. International indignation over the incident has grown as investigators still only have limited access to the crash site and it remains unclear when and where the victims' bodies will be transported. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Train with MH17 plane crash bodies leaves rebel town in Ukraine

By Dmitry Lovetsky and David McHugh - Associated Press

** FILE ** Then-Rep. Ron Paul, Texas Republican, speaks during a campaign stop in Manchester, N.H., on Dec. 19, 2011, during his bid for the party's presidential nomination. (Associated Press)

Ron Paul: U.S. partly to blame for Malaysia Airlines disaster

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, sits in an aircraft cockpit the Progress State Research and Production Space Centre (also known as TsSKB-Progress) in Samara, Russia, Monday, July 21, 2014. Putin has lambasted those who use the downing of a passenger jet in eastern Ukraine for "mercenary objectives," the Kremlin said Monday. In a statement posted on the Kremlin website, Putin again lashed out at Ukraine for ongoing violence with pro-Russian rebels in the eastern part of the country. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Obama: Putin must force separatist cooperation with probe of Malaysian flight crash

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

A difficult duty: The stench of death was nearly overwhelming Monday as Alexander Hug (center right), deputy head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, led a forensics investigation team near the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine. (Associated Press)

Vladimir Putin pressured to aid Ukraine plane crash probe, rein in rebels

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

A pro-Russia fighter guards the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine on Sunday. If the Russian Federation is shown to be liable for the deaths of 298 people from various countries, it could lose "sovereign immunity" and face complex criminal charges and civil suits. (Associated Press)

Russia could lose sovereign immunity if implicated in Flight 17 downing

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul, Texas Republican (Associated Press) **FILE**

McCaul: Putin responsible for downed flight

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Pat Larracas of Los Angeles walks through the third level of Airforce One Pavilion at the Ronald Reagan Library and Museum in Simi Valley, Calif. (Garrett Cheen/Special to The Washington Times)

Feinstein to Putin: ‘Man up’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Sorrow: Ukrainian emergency workers carry a victim's body in a bag at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, located near the village of Hrabove. (Associated Press)

John Kerry: Growing evidence Russia-armed rebels that shot down plane

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-13M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Moscow: Continue U.S. cooperation in space

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

Rescue workers carry a plastic bag with a dead body at the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines jet near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, July 19, 2014. Ukraine accused Russia on Saturday of helping separatist rebels destroy evidence at the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines plane shot down in rebel-held territory &#8212; a charge the rebels denied. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Monitors try to secure Ukraine crash site of Malaysian airliner

Associated Press

President Obama pauses while speaking about the situation in Ukraine in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on July 18, 2014. Obama called for immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, demands credible investigation of downed plane. (Associated Press)

Obama calls for Ukraine cease-fire, blames Russia for downed passenger jet

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

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Kelly Ayotte: Moscow behind plane crash

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 15, 2012 photo, the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 with tail number 9M-MRD _ the same aircraft that was shot down near the Ukraine Russia border on Thursday, July 17, 2014 _ takes off from Los Angeles International Airport. Ukraine said the passenger plane was shot down Thursday as it flew over the country, and both the government and the pro-Russia separatists fighting in the region denied any responsibility for downing the plane. (AP Photo/JoePriesAviation.net)

MH17: Americans safe to fly after Malaysia Airlines shoot-down: DOT secretary

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks during an evening lecture at the U.S. Naval War College Thursday, June 12, 2014 in Newport, RI. McCain delivered a blistering assessment of the U.S response to the developing military situation in Iraq from the Senate floor earlier on Thursday. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

John McCain: There’ll be ‘hell to pay’ if Malaysia plane was shot down by separatists

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks during an evening lecture at the U.S. Naval War College Thursday, June 12, 2014 in Newport, RI. McCain delivered a blistering assessment of the U.S response to the developing military situation in Iraq from the Senate floor earlier on Thursday. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

MH17: U.S. lawmakers rocked by downed Malaysia Airlines jet in Ukraine

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama walks to greet guests, Thursday, July 17, 2014, in New Castle, Del. Obama is visiting Wilmington, Del., to announce an initiative to increase private sector investment in the nation's infrastructure. (AP Photo/Emily Varisco)

Obama: Downed Malaysian airliner ‘might be a terrible tragedy’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin informed President Obama of the downing of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet near the end of a telephone call about U.S. sanctions. (Associated Press)

Putin moves quickly to control of Malaysia Airlines crash information

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times