Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
Pakistan Army Is Said to Be Linked to Many Killings in Swat
September 15th, 2009Via: New York Times: Two months after the Pakistani Army wrested control of the Swat Valley from Taliban militants, a new campaign of fear has taken hold, with scores, perhaps hundreds, of bodies dumped on the streets in what human rights advocates and local residents say is the work of the military. In some cases, […]
Police Seeking Missing Yale Student Find Body Inside Wall
September 14th, 2009Maybe the authorities should interview people who hang out inside the tomb. Possibly Related: Dead Scientists Via: New York Times: It was supposed to have been Annie Le’s wedding night. But hours after the missing Yale graduate student was to have been married, investigators found a body stuffed inside a wall of the lab building […]
Indicted Financier Danny Pang Dies in California
September 13th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: Danny Pang, the founder of Private Equity Management Group Inc., who U.S. regulators claim bilked Taiwanese investors, died today, a spokesman for the Pang family said. Pang, 42, had been taken from his Newport Beach, California, home yesterday afternoon by paramedics who had responded to a call from the house, said Sergeant Doug […]
Christopher Kelly, Key Figure in Blagojevich Corruption Probe, Is Dead
September 13th, 2009Oh Sure: Possible Overdose on Over-the-Counter Medicines Via: Chicago Tribune: Christopher Kelly, a key figure in the federal corruption probe into former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, is dead. The Cook County medical examiner’s office today confirmed that Christopher Kelly of Burr Ridge was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital at 10:46 a.m. The office said Kelly died […]
Glock’s Secret Path to Profits
September 11th, 2009You can’t even shake a stick at all the weird stuff in this one. Via: Business Week: Allegations of corruption permeate Gaston Glock’s empire. His former business associate, Charles Marie Joseph Ewert, now resides in a prison in Luxembourg, having been convicted in 2003 of contracting to have Glock killed. The murder plot—thwarted when the […]
Australia: Unconfirmed Claims of Police Officer Involvement in Michael McGurk Murder
September 8th, 2009Via: The Australian: THE NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption is to investigate the murder of Michael McGurk, amid unconfirmed claims a police officer could have been involved in the Sydney businessman’s death. NSW police and the corruption-fighting body met yesterday, with the police handing over undisclosed evidence, understood to include a tape recording that allegedly […]
Documentary Filmmaker Shot Dead in El Salvador
September 4th, 2009Via: CNN: A French filmmaker who recently finished a documentary about a violent street gang in El Salvador was found shot dead in the town of Tonacatepeque, about 10 miles northeast of the capital city of San Salvador, authorities said. Christian Poveda, 52, was shot at least four times in the face, according to local […]
Saudi Royal Escapes Assassination Attempt
September 1st, 2009How did the assassin get so close to Mohammed Bin Naif with a bomb? I read several articles about this incident and none of them made any sense. Surely, the security procedures would have revealed the bomb. Right? Yes, friends, behold: The rectum-packed-with-explosives trick. Via: The Media Line: New details reveal the man who tried […]
CIA Hired Blackwater for Assassination Program
August 21st, 2009“Blackwater is a CIA cutout that got so big that it just happened to become a household name.” —Feds Investigating Blackwater USA for Selling Weapons to Iraqi Insurgency I’ve asserted (for years) that Blackwater was a CIA contractor. Now that Blackwater’s involvement with CIA covert assassination programs has been admitted, my guess is that it’s […]
Brazil TV Host Turned Politician ‘Ordered Killings to Boost Ratings’
August 12th, 2009Via: Guardian: A Brazilian politician who fronts a popular television crime show is being investigated for allegedly ordering a series of executions in a bid to boost his ratings. Wallace Souza, a former police officer who used his lunchtime television slot to rail against the violence sweeping the jungle city of Manaus, is suspected of […]
