Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
Bird Bomb? Afghan Police Kill Bird Bearing Antenna, Explosives
November 30th, 2014Via: NBC: Afghan police said they are investigating how a wild bird came to bear an antenna, electronic devices and explosives. Police came across the strange sight around 8 a.m. in the northern Faryab province, a volatile region ravaged by Taliban violence. When police spotted the white bird — which isn’t native to the area […]
Citigroup Executive Found Dead in Greenwich Village Bathtub With Throat Slashed
November 23rd, 2014Update: Suspected Suicide, Police Said Yeah, that’s the ticket. Via: Bloomberg: The death of Shawn D. Miller, a Citigroup Inc. (C) managing director found dead in his apartment in New York, is a suspected suicide, police said. — Via: NBC: Police are investigating the death of a Citigroup manager who was found in his Manhattan […]
Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s Business Partner Dies, Apparently in Suicide
October 26th, 2014Via: New York Times: Thierry Leyne, a French-Israeli banker and partner of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the disgraced former chief of the International Monetary Fund, was found dead on Thursday after apparently taking his own life in Tel Aviv. Mr. Leyne, 48, jumped off the 23rd floor of one of the Yoo towers, a prestigious residential complex, […]
Deutsche Bank Lawyer Found Dead by Suicide in New York
October 25th, 2014Via: Reuters: A senior Deutsche Bank regulatory lawyer has been found dead in New York after committing suicide, New York City officials said on Saturday. Calogero Gambino, 41, was found on the morning of Oct. 20 at his home in the New York borough of Brooklyn and pronounced dead on the scene, according to New […]
Total’s CEO Christophe de Margerie Dies in Moscow Plane Crash
October 21st, 2014Via: BBC: Christophe de Margerie, the chief executive of French oil company Total, has died in an air crash in Moscow. His corporate jet collided with a snow plough and was then engulfed in flames. All four people on board were killed. The driver of the snow plough was drunk, according to Russian investigators. Mr […]
Managing a Nightmare: The CIA Reveals How It Watched Over the Destruction of Gary Webb
September 25th, 2014Via: First Look: Eighteen years after it was published, “Dark Alliance,” the San Jose Mercury News’s bombshell investigation into links between the cocaine trade, Nicaragua’s Contra rebels, and African American neighborhoods in California, remains one of the most explosive and controversial exposés in American journalism. The 20,000-word series enraged black communities, prompted Congressional hearings, and […]
Colonel Sabow Reports
September 10th, 2014Via: Bryan Burnett / Meixatech: Evaluation of the gunshot residue, back spatter residue, cranial injuries, blood spatter, the Colonel s bathrobe and the position of the body lead to the conclusion that Colonel James Sabow was murdered and an attempt was made to stage the body to appear that he committed suicide. The Colonel was […]
Israel Rejects New Zealand’s New Ambassador
September 8th, 2014HA! A “protocol principle,” is it? You know, like Mossad trying to obtain New Zealand passports to carry out international assassination operations. Via: AP: New Zealand officials said Monday that Israel has rejected their new ambassador because he is also an envoy to the Palestinian Authority. Since 2008, New Zealand’s ambassadors in Turkey have been […]
NIH Scientist Martin Rogers Found Dead
September 6th, 2014Via: NBC: About two weeks after he went missing, police announced an NIH scientist has been found dead in his car. Martin John Rogers, 54, left his Gaithersburg home around 7:30 a.m. on Aug. 21 to go to work. As he was leaving, he told his wife of 25 years that he was going to […]
Top AIDS Researchers Killed in Malaysia Airlines Crash
July 18th, 2014Utopia, Series 2 Episode 1, 14 July 2014, Channel4, Britain: “We have to plant a bomb on board the plane and we have to kill all of them.” Utopia is probably the best show I’ve ever seen on TV. The first two episodes from series 2 were recently broadcast in Britain. Most people outside of […]
