Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
Congo Gold Smuggling Ring’s Big Texas Ties
March 2nd, 2011Via: Mad Cow Productions: A Dallas-based Gulfstream V luxury jet seized for gold smuggling last month by authorities in the war-torn eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is also under investigation for drug running by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The Gulfstream implicated in gold trafficking in Goma was on the DEA’s […]
Kenyan Official, Investigating Congo Gold Smuggling Case, Shot and Killed
February 28th, 2011Via: Reuters: A senior Kenyan official has been shot dead while investigating gold smuggling from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kenyan police said on Monday. Eric Kiraithe, a police spokesman, said the man was an official at Kenya’s Revenue Authority. “We have not arrested any suspects involved in gold smuggling but we have identified […]
The Two Men Gunned Down by U.S. National Raymond Davis Were Working for ISI
February 14th, 2011Via: Times of India: The two men gunned down by US national Raymond Davis in Lahore last month were working for ISI which was tailing the American because he was spying and “encroaching on their turf”, according to a media report. The two men were sent to track Davis by the ISI, which believed that […]
The Octopus Conspiracy: One Woman’s Search for Her Father’s Killer
February 9th, 2011Via: Wired: On the morning of July 1, 1981, three bodies were discovered behind a shabby, concrete ranch house on Bob Hope Drive, a main drag in a sand-swept stretch of California’s scorching Coachella Valley. The corpses were sprawled in a semicircle, on chairs and beds that had been dragged into the backyard. Each of […]
The Deepening Mystery of Raymond Davis and Two Slain Pakistani Motorcyclists
February 9th, 2011Update: It’s Official: Raymond Davis Is a CIA Contractor Via: Los Angeles Times: Pakistani and U.S. authorities say U.S. Embassy worker Raymond Davis, who killed two alleged robbers in Lahore, works for the CIA. —End Update— Wow. You have to check out hyperion-protective.com. No really. Must see. But be warned: Your sides will hurt from […]
Son of Ex-Enron Boss Found Dead
February 4th, 2011Via: AP: The youngest son of former Enron President Jeff Skilling was found dead in his Southern California apartment this week. John Taylor Skilling, 20, was found dead in his Santa Ana home around 10.30pm on Tuesday after his friends called police when he didn’t show up for a planned dinner, police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna […]
Julie Powers Schenecker: Russian Linguist, Previously Associated with U.S. Army Intelligence, and Wife of U.S. Army Intelligence Colonel, Who’s ‘Mainly Responsible for the National Security Agency’s Support to Military Operations,’ Shot and Killed Their Two Children in Florida
January 30th, 2011Update: Video of Perp Walk —End Update— Update: 2009 Forum Post Indicates Julie Schenecker (Née Powers) Was Army MOS 97E: Human Intelligence Collector 97E: Human Intelligence Collector: Major Duties: The Human Intelligence Collector (HUMINT Collector) supervises and conducts tactical HUMINT collection operations that include, but are not limited to, debriefings, interrogations and elicitations in English […]
Peter Dale Scott: The Doomsday Project, Deep Events, and the Shrinking of American Democracy
January 24th, 2011Via: Asia Pacific Journal: In recent years I have become more and more concerned with the interactions between three important and alarming trends in recent American history. The first is America’s increasing militarization, and above all its inclination, even obsession, to involve itself in needless and pernicious wars. The second, closely related, is the progressive […]
Blackwater’s Prince Building Mercenary Force with Apartheid-Era ‘Hit Squad’ Officer
January 21st, 2011Via: Raw Story: According to news reports published Thursday, Prince has partnered with an African-based security company, Saracen International, to win security contracts from the Somali government that would see the mercenaries fight the on-land part of the war against Somali high-seas pirates, and would also go after al-Shabab, the Islamist militant group that has […]
BMW Explodes in Arlington
January 11th, 2011Two exploding BMWs in two days, within about six miles of each other… Move along, citizen, nothing to see here? Perhaps. That’s why we have the Coincidence category. See: Ashley W. Turton: Energy Lobbyist, Wife of Key White House Aide, Dies in Fire Via: ARLNow: A white BMW exploded around 8:15 a.m. this morning in […]
