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2020-02-11 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Blogger and Putin critic Imran Aliev succombs to French hotel stay

[NYP] An outspoken blogger who routinely attacked Russia and Chechnya has been found dead in a French hotel with his throat slit and 100 stab wounds ‐ and police suspect a "political motivation," according to reports.

Chechen blogger Imran Aliev,

...also spelt Imran Aliyev, though neither appears in the Rantburg archives....

44, was found late last month in a hotel bloodbath in Lille that reflected "extreme savagery," sources told Agence France-Presse. His throat had also been slit, Business Insider said.

Aliev had political refugee status and was living in Belgium under police protection "because of threats out of Russia and Chechnya over his opposition blogging," a senior French police official told the outlet.

What precisely did he oppose? Was he a bearded liberal fighting for liberty and democracy, or a bearded keyboard jihadi furious that Messers Putin and Kadyrov stood in the way of a beloved Caucasian caliphate? It is curious that I can thus far find no mention of the dead gentleman’s politics.

Using the online handle "Mansur Stariy,"

...also not in Rantburg’s archives...

he became known mostly for his strident diatribes critiquing Chechen ruler Ramzan Kadyrov as well as Russian President Vladimir Putin, the report says.

"We had him under police protection for a reason," a Belgian law enforcement official told Business Insider, saying there had been "specific and credible threats on his life from certain political sectors in Chechnya and Russia."

Related article from Breitbart, which suggests the situation is more complicated than originally suggested.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Why the f--- are we and our allies giving aid and comfort to Islamist terrorists who do nothing but provoke Russia in its backyard?

How does this benefit us?

What possible interest do we have here?
End this madness.

Posted by Lex 2020-02-11 00:48|| 2020-02-11 00:48|| Front Page Top

#2 found dead in a French hotel with his throat slit and 100 stab wounds

"A clear case of suicide - messing with me this way IS suicide" - Vlad ~~Taltos~~.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-11 05:21|| 2020-02-11 05:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Arrest the doorman and concierge on unrelated gambling charges. Permit the remaining hotel staff to return to Chechnya, the Ukraine, and Pakistan immediately.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-11 05:26|| 2020-02-11 05:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Did a search under Мансур Старый and his very few Youtube vids came up. Indeed strange as he doesn't appear to have been very popular (few followers). There one clip (the only one with a substantial number of viewers) that shows him in a very aggressive stance, hurling expletives at Kadyrov.

He doesn't seem to be important enough to get murdered.

Posted by European Conservative 2020-02-11 05:46|| 2020-02-11 05:46|| Front Page Top

#5 He doesn't seem to be important enough to get murdered. ... hurling expletives at Kadyrov

Eastern ideas of face.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-11 06:41|| 2020-02-11 06:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Well Kadyrov maybe, Putin certainly not.

Posted by European Conservative 2020-02-11 08:49|| 2020-02-11 08:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Which suggests the situation is more complicated than originally suggested:

I will readily accept a Barisma related, LGBT love-triangle involving Hunter Biden and Mike Obama, no questions asked.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-11 09:45|| 2020-02-11 09:45|| Front Page Top

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