Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
News of the World Phone-Hacking Whistleblower Found Dead
July 18th, 2011Via: Guardian: Sean Hoare, the former News of the World showbiz reporter who was the first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking by his staff, has been found dead, the Guardian has learned. Hoare, who worked on the Sun and the News of the World with Coulson before being dismissed […]
Billionaire’s Son and Girlfriend Die Within Days of Each Other; Girlfriend’s Bound and Naked Body Found Hanging from Mansion’s Balcony
July 18th, 2011Update: Death of Rebecca Zahau Officially Declared a Suicide Via: Los Angeles Times: Rebecca Zahau, the girlfriend of pharmaceutical executive Jonah Shacknai who committed suicide at his Coronado mansion, was distraught over injuries his son suffered in her care and that is apparently why she decided to hang herself, authorities said Friday. Zahau’s nude body […]
And Now… Bodyguard Who Killed Karzai’s Brother Was Trusted CIA Contact
July 16th, 2011Via: Independent: The bodyguard who assassinated President Hamid Karzai’s brother had been working closely with US Special Forces and the CIA before he was recruited by the Taliban, raising fears over the Islamist movement’s increasingly sophisticated intelligence apparatus which has managed to threaten the inner circles of power in Afghanistan. Sardar Mohammad, who shot Ahmed […]
Ahmed Wali Karzai, Brother of Afghan President, Killed by Trusted Guard
July 12th, 2011Update: Bodyguard Who Killed Karzai’s Brother Was Trusted CIA Contact Via: Independent: The bodyguard who assassinated President Hamid Karzai’s brother had been working closely with US Special Forces and the CIA before he was recruited by the Taliban, raising fears over the Islamist movement’s increasingly sophisticated intelligence apparatus which has managed to threaten the inner […]
Mysterious Deaths of Two Staten Island Marines
July 4th, 2011Via: SI Live: New Brighton natives Duane Robert Liburd Jr. and Hamson R. Daniels McPherson never knew each other. But the two young men wound up in the same place a half-world away — as U.S. Marines stationed on the Japanese island of Okinawa. And in a tragic coincidence, Liburd, 22, and Daniels McPherson, 21, […]
Author of Blog About the Sunny Sheu Case Claims Assault by Undercover Police Officer
July 1st, 2011Via: The Murder of Sunny Sheu: Today, June 29th, I spoke with a reporter from BI for two hours and then left for his office to give him some information I did not want to discuss on the phone. Outside I noticed a silver van with nobody in it illegally parked across the street from […]
U.S. War Number Six: Somalia
June 30th, 2011Via: Guardian: The US has conducted its first drone strike on Islamist militants in Somalia, marking the expansion of the pilotless war campaign to a sixth country. The missile strike on a vehicle in the southern town of Kismayo, reported last week as a helicopter assault, wounded two senior militants with al-Shabab and several foreign […]
Friend of British Prime Minister Found Dead in Toilet at Music Festival
June 27th, 2011Via: Belfast Telegraph: Detectives are hoping toxicology results will shed light on the death riddle of a senior Tory in a Glastonbury Festival VIP toilet. Christopher Shale, 56, a close friend of David Cameron, was discovered slumped in a cubicle in the backstage area on Sunday morning. The Prime Minister’s constituency chairman had been reported […]
Five Bushehr Experts Died in Russian Plane Crash
June 26th, 2011Via: AP: Russia’s top nuclear agency says that five experts involved in the construction of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant have died in Monday’s plane crash in northeastern Russia. Rosatom said Wednesday hat the five men were among 44 passengers of the Tu-134 plane that slammed into highway near the Petrozavodsk airport. It said the experts […]
Sunny Sheu: Murdered for Investigating NY Foreclosure Judge Joseph Golia?
June 24th, 2011Via: Naked Capitalism: The details are thin but they sure don’t smell right. The short form is that Sunny Sheu had his house stolen from him by fictive buyers who used forged documents. Judge Golia of Queens engaged in what appears to be highly questionable behavior in failing to reverse the sale. Sheu started investigating […]
