Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
Billionaire French Hotelier Shot Dead in Professional Hit
October 28th, 2011Via: Telegraph: A billionaire French hotelier has been shot dead in a wealthy Paris suburb in what police believe was a professional hit. The lifeless body of Claude Dray, 76, was found with three bullet holes in the neck in Neuilly-sur-Seine, the Paris suburb where President Nicolas Sarkozy built his career and still owns property. […]
Qaddafi Was Captured Alive—Who Killed Him?
October 21st, 2011Via: The Atlantic: What did happen to Qaddafi after the video above cut away? No one can seem to say for sure. Libyan interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril admitted late on Thursday that Qaddafi had been found alive but insisted he had been killed accidentally. “There was cross-fire and he was shot while they were […]
Navy Seaman Acting as NCIS Informant on Day of Death
October 13th, 2011Via: Deerfield Patch: In February 2010, Navy seaman Kyle Antonacci was found hanging by a belt in the closet of his room at Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois. His cause of death was ruled asphyxia by hanging but how he died is yet to be determined. Kyle was 22 years old and had recently […]
Dozens of Fast and Furious Weapons Found in Mexico Cartel Enforcer’s Home
October 9th, 2011Via: Los Angeles Times: High-powered assault weapons illegally purchased under the ATF’s Fast and Furious program in Phoenix ended up in a home belonging to the purported top Sinaloa cartel enforcer in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, whose organization was terrorizing that city with the worst violence in the Mexican drug wars. In all, 100 assault weapons […]
Mario Cal: The Mysterious Suicide That Has Rocked The Vatican
October 6th, 2011Via: Independent: On a Monday morning in July, a gunshot rang out in the administration section of Milan’s San Raffaele hospital. Seconds later, a frightened secretary entered the office of the institution’s vice-president, Mario Cal, and found him lying in a pool of blood. Mr Cal clung briefly to life, but the Smith and Wesson […]
Secret U.S. Panel Puts Americans on ‘Kill List’
October 6th, 2011Hopey Changey. Via: Reuters: American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior U.S. government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to U.S. officials. There is no public record of the operations or decisions of the panel, which is a subset […]
The Secret Memo That Explains Why Obama Can Kill Americans
October 3rd, 2011Via: The Atlantic: Outside the U.S. government, President Obama’s order to kill American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki without due process has proved controversial, with experts in law and war reaching different conclusions. Inside the Obama Administration, however, disagreement was apparently absent, or so say anonymous sources quoted by the Washington Post. “The Justice Department wrote a […]
U.S. Assembling Drone Bases in Africa, Arabian Peninsula
September 21st, 2011Via: Washington Post: The Obama administration is assembling a constellation of secret drone bases for counterterrorism operations in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as part of a newly aggressive campaign to attack al-Qaeda affiliates in Somalia and Yemen, U.S. officials said. One of the installations is being established in Ethiopia, a U.S. […]
Swissair Crash May Not Have Been an Accident
September 15th, 2011Via: CBC: An investigator looking into the crash of Swissair Flight 111 near Peggys Cove, N.S., says he was prevented by senior RCMP and aviation safety officials from pursuing his theory that an incendiary device might have been the cause. “There was sufficient grounds to suspect a criminal device on that plane,” retired RCMP sergeant […]
Fast and Furious: ‘Keep Selling, They Told Him’
September 12th, 2011Via Los Angeles Times: In the fall of 2009, ATF agents installed a secret phone line and hidden cameras in a ceiling panel and wall at Andre Howard’s Lone Wolf gun store. They gave him one basic instruction: Sell guns to every illegal purchaser who walks through the door. For 15 months, Howard did as […]
