Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS)
May 28th, 2015Via: Nature: Technologies have reached a point at which the deployment of such systems is — practically if not legally — feasible within years, not decades. The stakes are high: LAWS have been described as the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms. Autonomous weapons systems select and engage targets without human intervention; […]
Missing Morgan Stanley Trader Found Dead
May 18th, 2015Via: Bloomberg: Murray Abbott, an institutional sales trader at Morgan Stanley in Toronto who had been missing since April 25, was found Monday by the shore of Lake Ontario near the city’s Beaches neighborhood where he lived. He was 36. His death wasn’t suspicious, Mark Pugash, a Toronto Police Service spokesman, said Tuesday in a […]
Germanwings Crash
March 24th, 2015Officials: Co-Pilot Deliberately Crashed Flight 9525 Via: USA Today: The co-pilot of the Germanwings flight that crashed in the French Alps deliberately worked to destroy the plane while passengers shrieked in terror and the pilot pounded on the cockpit door, a French prosecutor said at a news conference Thursday in Marseille. “This was voluntary, this […]
Russian Opposition Politician Boris Nemtsov Shot Dead in Moscow
February 27th, 2015Putin will “personally” investigate. Via: Guardian: Prominent Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov has been shot dead in Moscow. Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister and a sharp critic of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, was reportedly shot four times in the chest by a killer in a passing car. The killing took place in the […]
JPMorgan Employee and His Wife Found Dead in Their Home in Apparent Murder-Suicide
February 10th, 2015Via: nj.com: A JPMorgan Chase & Co. employee and his wife were found dead in their home in an apparent murder-suicide. It happened in Closter Friday evening, where the bodies of Michael and Iran Pars Tabacchi were discovered. Authorities say Iran was stabbed and strangled, while Michael died of a self-inflicted stab wound. But it […]
Draft of Arrest Request for Argentine President Found at Dead Prosecutor’s Home
February 4th, 2015Via: New York Times: Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor whose mysterious death has gripped Argentina, had drafted a request for the arrest of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, accusing her of trying to shield Iranian officials from responsibility in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center here, the lead investigator into his death said Tuesday. The […]
Litvinenko Post-Mortem: “The Most Dangerous Ever Undertaken in the Western World”
January 28th, 2015Via: BBC: The post-mortem examination of poisoned Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko was probably “the most dangerous ever undertaken in the Western world”, a pathologist has said. Dr Nathaniel Cary told the inquiry into Mr Litvinenko’s death that his body was “very hazardous” and had to be transferred to a secure site for tests. Mr Litvinenko […]
Chris van Eeghen, ABN Amro Corporate Finance Executive, Dies
January 26th, 2015Via: Bloomberg: Chris van Eeghen, head of syndicate and corporate finance markets at ABN Amro Group NV, has died. His death was confirmed in an e-mailed statement from the state-owned Amsterdam-based bank. The statement, which described his death as “totally unexpected,” didn’t provide his age or the date and cause of death. Van Eeghen joined […]
Prosecutor Who Accused Argentinian President of Iranian Bomb Cover-Up Found Dead
January 20th, 2015Via: Independent: An Argentinian prosecutor who accused the country’s president of orchestrating a cover-up of the investigation into a notorious bomb attack on a Jewish community centre has been found dead – hours before he was to testify at a closed-door hearing. Reports said that Alberto Nisman, 51, who had been examining the 1994 blast […]
Body of Missing AIG Executive Found in Golf Course Pond
January 19th, 2015Via: Fox News: A body found floating in a pond on a golf course in California has been identified as the AIG executive who disappeared two weeks ago while attending a work conference in the area. The Riverside County Coroner’s Office confirmed that it was the body of Omar Meza on Friday, according to KESQ. […]
