MH17 shot down with captured missile - German intelligence

Tony Abbott's "shirtfronting" threat now looks even more embarrassing for him. Putin has always said that Russia wasn't responsible for shooting down the plane. Now according to German intelligence, this wasn't the case at all. They reckon it was shot down by pro-Russian rebels who captured the missile from a Ukrainian base.

German intelligence has reportedly accused pro-Russian rebels of shooting down a Malaysian passenger jet over Ukraine using missiles captured from government forces. 

Kiev and the West have previously charged that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was blown out of the sky in July by separatist fighters using a BUK surface-to-air system supplied by Russia, charges denied by Moscow. 

But the head of Germany's BND foreign spy agency Gerhard Schindler said intelligence indicated the rebels had captured a BUK system from a Ukrainian base and fired a missile that exploded directly next to the plane, Spiegel magazine reported. Read more 

Shit Tone, what have you done? Let's see you extricate yourself out of this fuckin mess you've got yourself in to. Perhaps a grovelling apology to Putin in front of all might suffice?