Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
D.C. Madam Found Dead: “Apparent Suicide”
May 1st, 2008Update: DC Madam Predicted She Would Be Suicided Via: WTOP: D.C. Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey has been found dead in a home in Florida, police say. Police in Tarpon Springs, Fla. were called to the home of Palfrey’s mother, Blanche, to investigate an apparent suicide at 10:52 a.m. Police confirmed the dead woman as 52-year-old […]
Activist Under FBI Investigation Found Dead in Lake, Hands and Legs Bound, Eyes Covered with Duct Tape; Police Leaning Toward Suicide Ruling
April 22nd, 2008Via: American Statesman: Austin police said Thursday that they are leaning toward a ruling of suicide in the death of a middle school teacher and activist whose body was found Wednesday in Lady Bird Lake with his hands and legs bound and tape over his eyes. Police identified Riad Hamad, 55, at a news conference […]
Alexander Farrell, Berkeley Biofuels Expert, Dies At 46
April 19th, 2008Via: ktvu: Alexander Farrell, a University of California, Berkeley associate professor who was advising the state on the use of alternative fuels, died this week at his home in San Francisco, according to the university. He was 46. Colleagues and friends expressed shock and grief at Farrell’s death, noting that it came at a time […]
Man at Center of Las Vegas Ricin Case Arrested, Charged
April 17th, 2008Small caliber weapons without serial numbers… One of them, a Browning .22 caliber handgun, was fitted with a sound suppressor. Sound suppressors, and weapons capable of accepting them are tightly controlled in the U.S. Of course, standard weapons may be illegally modified to accept sound suppressors that have been illegally fabricated by competent metal craftspeople. […]
FBI Tracked King’s Every Move
April 1st, 2008Via: CNN: Hoping to prove the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was under the influence of Communists, the FBI kept the civil rights leader under constant surveillance. The agency’s hidden tape recorders turned up almost nothing about communism. But they did reveal embarrassing details about King’s sex life — details the FBI was able to […]
Banker Facing Prosecution Turns up Dead, Rest of Family Beaten to Death
March 27th, 2008“At some point, this thing is going to start looking less like a financial crisis and more like a mob war.” —Unloading Toxic Waste Mortgage Backed Securities: “We Americans Were Very Clever” Of course, Steven Sueppel acted alone. Fuggetaboutit. Via: AP: A mother and her four children found dead in their Iowa City home were […]
Top British Police Investigator Who Headed Inquiry Into CIA Torture Flights Found Dead at Bottom of Cliff
March 12th, 2008Via: AP: A city police chief who led an investigation into charges that Britain cooperated with secret CIA flights to transport terrorism suspects without formal proceedings has been found dead, his deputy said Tuesday. Manchester Chief Constable Michael Todd, 50, was found dead in Snowdonia, about 240 miles northwest of London, Deputy Chief Constable Dave […]
Guatemala to Expose Army Torture Files
February 26th, 2008Somehow, the Reuters article below doesn’t mention the CIA even once… As usual, the reader needs to look elsewhere for the basic, contextual facts: Jennifer K. Harbury Knows American Torture Starts at the Top, and It Has for Decades: …my husband had indeed been captured alive, had been held for two and a half years […]
New Evidence Challenges Official Story of RFK Shooting
February 25th, 2008Via: Guardian: The official record states that senator Robert F Kennedy, like his brother before him, was killed by a crazed lone gunman. But the assassination of a man who seemed to embody so much hope for a bitterly divided country embroiled in an unpopular war still troubles this nation. Little about the official explanation […]
Austrian UN Employee Dies in Fall from 19th Floor
February 18th, 2008Via: New York Daily News: A 44-year-old Austrian woman who worked for the United Nations plunged from the 19th floor of the iconic Secretariat building Sunday in an apparent suicide leap, police said. Maria DiBiase, who worked with the Austrian Consulate, was discovered in the complex’s rear courtyard by horrified UN staffers about 8 a.m., […]
