Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
Julius Baer CEO: Suicide
December 5th, 2008Oh sure. See the Wikileaks data on Julius Baer. Via: Reuters: Alex Widmer, the chief executive of Bank Julius Baer and a well respected figure in Swiss private banking, has died unexpectedly at the age of 52, the bank said. A source told Reuters he had been informed by close friends of Widmer’s family that […]
AFRICOM China and Congo Resource Wars
December 2nd, 2008Via: Engdahl: If France was the covert target of US ‘surrogate warfare’ in 1994, today it is clearly China, which is the real threat to US control of Central Africa’s vast mineral riches. The Democratic Republic of Congo was renamed from the Republic of Zaire in 1997 when the forces of Laurent Désiré Kabila brought […]
Lawyer for Chiquita in Colombia Death Squad Case May be Next U.S. Attorney General
November 20th, 2008Change™ and Hope™, now with 100% more WTF!? Via: Huffington Post: In its recent report entitled, “Breaking the Grip? Obstacles to Justice for Paramilitary Mafias in Colombia,” Human Rights Watch (HRW) had specific recommendations for the U.S. Department of Justice. Specifically, HRW recommended that, in order to assist with the process of ending the ties […]
Sean Nicholas Green
November 15th, 2008Via: Washington Post: Oxon Hill Man Fatally Shot at Stop Light By Aaron C. Davis Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, November 13, 2008; 6:53 PM An Oxon Hill man who worked with sensitive national security information was fatally shot Wednesday evening as he sat in his car at a stop light near his home, according […]
Kanika Powell
November 15th, 2008I tried to determine the nature of the work that she was involved with—or even where she worked at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory—but I couldn’t find anything solid at all. This is how she signed her emails: Kanika T. Powell, Special Security, 13-S448 JHU/APL. What’s 13-S448? I guessed that 13 might be […]
Eugene Mallove: Charges Against Suspects Dismissed
November 7th, 2008Via: Norwich Bulletin: More than three years after their arrests, a Superior Court judge Thursday dismissed charges against the two suspects in a 2004 Norwich slaying, leaving Norwich police with a four-year-old unsolved murder. “There are still unanswered questions that need to be answered,” said Chief State’s Attorney Kevin Kane, who was the former New […]
Ex-CIA Operative Dies After Volume on Heart Monitor Turned Down
October 25th, 2008Via: Manchester Evening News: A FORMER CIA man died at Manchester Royal Infirmary after the alarm on his heart monitor was mysteriously turned down. American Alan Bel – who had lived in Salford for 30 years after finishing working for the secretive agency – may well have been saved if staff had been alerted that […]
North Korean Mata Hari Jailed in Assassination Plots
October 20th, 2008Via: National Post: A North Korean spy, described as Asia’s Mata Hari, was jailed for five years yesterday for using sex to plot assassinations with poisoned needles and obtain secrets from military officers. Prosecutors claimed Won Jeong-Hwa, 35, entered South Korea posing as a refugee when in fact she was a spy with handlers in […]
Senior Barclays Executive, in Charge of Assets Worth £133 Billion in 21 Countries, Killed by Street Gang
September 30th, 2008Via: Times Online: Detectives hunting the killers of a senior banking executive are today hunting for at least five men who are believed to have been caught on CCTV running from the scene of the street attack early on Sunday morning. Frank McGarahan, 45, the chief operating officer of Barclays Wealth, in charge of assets […]
And Now: The Killer Drones that Can See Through Walls
September 21st, 2008Via: Slate: Both reports focus on “detecting and identifying humans enclosed in building structures.” “Through-the-wall sensing is currently a topic of great interest to defense agencies both in the U.S. and abroad,” says the April report. “The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has been active in all these fields of investigation, approaching these issues both […]
