Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
RFK Assassination Witness: There Was a Second Shooter
April 30th, 2012Via: CNN: As a federal court prepares to rule on a challenge to Sirhan Sirhan’s conviction in the Robert F. Kennedy assassination, a long overlooked witness to the murder is telling her story: She heard two guns firing during the 1968 shooting and authorities altered her account of the crime. Nina Rhodes-Hughes wants the world […]
Libya’s Former Oil Minister Shukri Ghanem Found Dead in Danube River
April 30th, 2012Via: BBC: The body of Libya’s former Oil Minister Shukri Ghanem has been found in the Danube River, Austrian police say. A spokesman said there were no signs of violence to Mr Ghanem’s body, which was in the river that flows through Vienna. The former prime minister, 69, worked as a consultant for a Vienna-based […]
Possible Arsenic Poisoning Probed in Death of Coroner’s Official
April 29th, 2012Various conspiracy backwaters have lost their minds over a rumor that this has something to do with Andrew Breitbart’s death. I’m just posting this so I don’t receive several dozen submissions for Sucha Fool, ATS, GLP, etc. Via: Los Angeles Times: Authorities said a Los Angeles County coroner’s official, Michael Cormier, appears to have died […]
Briton Killed After Threat to Expose Overseas Financial Dealings of Chinese Politician’s Wife
April 16th, 2012Via: Reuters: The British businessman whose murder has sparked political upheaval in China was poisoned after he threatened to expose a plan by a Chinese leader’s wife to move money abroad, two sources with knowledge of the police investigation said. It was the first time a specific motive has been revealed for Neil Heywood’s murder […]
Drug Lords Targeted by Fast and Furious Were FBI Informants
March 29th, 2012Via: Los Angeles Times: When the ATF made alleged gun trafficker Manuel Fabian Celis-Acosta its primary target in the ill-fated Fast and Furious investigation, it hoped he would lead the agency to two associates who were Mexican drug cartel members. The ATF even questioned and released him knowing that he was wanted by the Drug […]
And Now… Degrees in ‘Drone Studies’
March 29th, 2012Via: The Daily: America’s newest college major may well be Drone Studies. Amid a worldwide boom in unmanned aerial vehicles, a handful of U.S. colleges have begun offering classes and even four-year degrees for students looking for jobs in the fast-growing field where even newcomers can earn six-figure salaries. Jeb Bailey, 28, who has taken […]
Martin Luther King Assassination: Dick Gregory on the Comments of Reverend Samuel “Billy” Kyles
March 29th, 2012Via: YouTube:
The Death of Neil Heywood in China
March 28th, 2012Via: Telegraph: Immaculately dressed, often in cream linen, Neil Heywood was the epitomy of a British gentleman abroad, but his death in a hotel room in China has left those who knew him asking what secrets he may have taken to his grave. The 41-year-old Old Harrovian was a vastly experienced China hand, who advised […]
Call to Examine MI5 Link to Murder of Nuclear Activist
March 20th, 2012Via: Guardian: One of Britain’s leading human rights lawyers has demanded a fresh police inquiry to establish what the British intelligence services knew about the murder of a prominent anti-nuclear campaigner. Michael Mansfield QC said new evidence meant that an independent police force should be appointed to examine enduring concerns and inconsistencies relating to the […]
Latest Attack in France Kills 4 Outside Jewish School
March 19th, 2012[???] Via: ABC: A motorcycle gunman opened fire Monday in front of a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse, killing a rabbi, his two young sons and a schoolgirl, the prosecutor’s office said. It was the third deadly motorcycle shooting in the same area in recent days. French prosecutors were studying possible terrorist […]
