Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
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 […]
Hiding Surveillance and Killer Drones in Plain Sight
June 20th, 2011Via: New York Times: Two miles from the cow pasture where the Wright Brothers learned to fly the first airplanes, military researchers are at work on another revolution in the air: shrinking unmanned drones, the kind that fire missiles into Pakistan and spy on insurgents in Afghanistan, to the size of insects and birds. The […]
Puerto Rico: Banker Shot Dead, Professional Hit
June 17th, 2011Via: Business Insider: A banker was gunned down in Puerto Rico on Wednesday and at least one Puetro Rican news agency suspects that it might have had something to do with an audit he had recently launched. The banker, 56-year old Maurice J. Spagnoletti, was Doral Financial corporation’s executive vice president of Mortgage and Banking […]
Britain: Attorney General Rules Against Dr. David Kelly Inquest
June 9th, 2011Drug Expert Claims David Kelly Was Murdered Secret Knife Evidence Points to Murder Via: BBC: The attorney general has rejected calls for an inquest into the death in 2003 of government scientist Dr David Kelly. Dominic Grieve said the evidence Dr Kelly killed himself was “overwhelming” and rejected claims of a “cover-up”. Dr Kelly was […]
Doctors Will Launch Court Fight if Dr. David Kelly Inquest Demand Turned Down
June 7th, 2011Apologies for the Daily Mail link. Via: Daily Mail: A group of doctors is preparing to mount a legal challenge if the Attorney General this week refuses an inquest into the death of weapons inspector Dr David Kelly. Dominic Grieve, who has spent nine months considering the case for a new inquiry, is expected to […]
Nickname for CIA’s Bin Laden Team: ‘The Manson Family’
June 3rd, 2011Via: Telegraph: Terrorist hunter Michael Scheuer tells Duncan Gardham and Iain Hollingshead how he was repeatedly ordered not to stop the al-Qaeda chief. There are not many sane people who can say with confidence that, had a president of America only listened to them, they could have saved $1.3 trillion and many hundreds of thousands […]
‘A Trader, an F.B.I. Witness, and Then a Suicide’
June 3rd, 2011Suuuuure. Via: New York Times: In a Manhattan courtroom last week, federal prosecutors played for a jury a secretly recorded telephone conversation between two Wall Street traders exchanging stock tips. Two days later, one of those traders, Ephraim G. Karpel, hanged himself in his Fifth Avenue office, according to a law enforcement official. Mr. Karpel […]
Amazon Rainforest Activist, and His Wife, Shot Dead
May 26th, 2011Via: Guardian: Six months after predicting his own murder, a leading rainforest defender has reportedly been gunned down in the Brazilian Amazon. José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife, Maria do Espírito Santo, are said to have been killed in an ambush near their home in Nova Ipixuna, in Pará state, about 37 miles […]
