1/9/20
The Ukrainian flight that crashed just outside the Iranian capital of Tehran
was struck by an anti-aircraft missile system,
a Pentagon official,
a senior U.S. intelligence official and
an Iraqi intelligence official told Newsweek.
Updated on: January 9, 2020
U.S. intelligence picked up signals of a radar being turned on, sources told CBS News.
U.S. satellites also detected two surface-to-air missile launches,
which happened shortly before the plane exploded,
CBS News was told.
Federal officials were briefed on the intelligence Thursday,
A source who was in the briefing said it appears missile components were found near the crash site.
These photos are incredibly frustrating, they're potential extremely significant,
but next to impossible to verify their location
because the angle of the camera is too high
to catch the details needed in the background (like buildings)
we'd need to geolocate it.