Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
So Many Threats to Federal Officials that Secret Service May Curtail Investigations Into Financial Crimes
October 20th, 2009Wow, the Internet Tuff Guys are out in force on this one, leaving stupid comments all over the place—perfect for COINTEL purposes. Via: Boston Globe: The unprecedented number of death threats against President Obama, a rise in racist hate groups, and a new wave of antigovernment fervor threaten to overwhelm the US Secret Service, according […]
Shooting of Prominent IMF Economist Baffles Police
October 12th, 2009“It had to be random?” Is that the new “Probable Suicide”? Via: WJLA: Police are still looking for clues after a prominent economist was shot in the garage of his upscale home. Ashoka Mody has been identified in an email to his fellow employees at the International Monetary Fund as the man shot Thursday night […]
‘Two Bodies’ on Mafia Waste Ship
September 25th, 2009Via: BBC: Investigators in Italy examining a shipwreck containing possible radioactive waste say they may have found two bodies on board. An underwater camera also showed pictures of orange barrels, with the word “toxic” on their side. The boat lies in 500m of water off the south-western coast of Italy. Officials say they believe the […]
University of Chicago Professor Dies from Exposure to Plague
September 23rd, 2009Definitely one for the dead biologists list. Via: ABC News: A University of Chicago researcher died after being exposed to a strain of bacteria that causes plague. And Malcolm Casadaban’s family wants answers. The Chicago Department of Public Health says there’s no sign anyone else was exposed to the bacteria. The tragic irony is that […]
Nuclear Power Plant Engineer Dead in “Probable Suicide”
September 18th, 2009There’s absolutely no reason (as far as I can tell) to think that this is assassination. Just noting it anyway. Via: Arizona Republic: Police have confirmed that the man found dead in a vehicle on Wednesday in Yavapai County was a missing Glendale man, Cornelius Hardy. Yavapai authorities are investigating the incident as a probable […]
Former Beneficial CEO Finn Caspersen Dies in “Apparent Suicide”
September 16th, 2009Update: New York Times: Suicide Victim May Have Hidden Millions Abroad: He seemed, in many ways, like a man from another time, a Gatsbyesque figure who glided through a world of old money, private clubs and pedigree horses, his family name emblazoned on Ivy League halls. Then, in an instant, he was gone — his […]
Rockefeller & Co CEO Dies in “Apparent Suicide”
September 16th, 2009Via: Reuters: James McDonald, a prominent adviser to wealthy families as chief executive of investment management group Rockefeller & Co, died in an apparent suicide, on Sunday, local authorities said on Tuesday. McDonald, 56, was found with a single gunshot wound in his car near a strip mall in Dartmouth, Massachusetts on Sunday afternoon. Police […]
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 […]
