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| Update on Killing in French Alps |
| 2012-09-09 |
| This BBC article has some better background info on the murders in the French Alps. See especially the 6-part timeline, which is halfway down the main page http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19534578 Had some discussions with friends over the weekend. Purely informal. If this incident was the result of a hit by a major western intelligence agency ... then it's bloody brutal and quite messy. Definitely lacking in precision and execution. I'll stick with my own theory that the unexpected arrival of the cyclist on the road caused confusion with the hit men ... they apparently had poor surveillance on the road where the killing took place. As a result, they did not carefully check that all of their intended targets were dead. If this was an intelligence agency ... standards are really slipping out there. One alternate theory is that this was actually the work of mafia-style hit men. Maybe the victim had business problems and he had borrowed substantially from some mafia organization in the Middle East. Then he was unable to pay it back. That would explain the cold-blooded brutality of the murder. French and British police are taking this incident very seriously. Someone has got a lot of heat headed in their direction. |
| Posted by:Raider |
| #6 *** cough *** cough - Penn State attacks the Alps *** cough ***... |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-09-09 22:54 |
| #5 one small detail that's been hard to figure out - how did the hit men get the victim's vehicle to stop? It was parked in a pullover area, and apparently everyone was killed at that location. at least two dozen shots were fired with silenced pistols - maybe 22 caliber (a guess). One possibility is that the victim had pre-arranged to stop at that spot. maybe the meeting was set up ahead of time. it's possible he thought he was meeting a contact to drop off a payment or information. instead - he was set up to be killed. the point is that the hit men may have been expecting him to come alone, and were not expecting the whole family. once the incident went down - they proceeded and killed all the adults. it's just one possiblity, but the police will have to look at it. |
| Posted by: Raider 2012-09-09 22:07 |
| #4 I put the BBC article URL in the source box to link to the headline, Nimble Spemble, though this is an original analysis by our own Raider. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2012-09-09 21:15 |
| #3 404 |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2012-09-09 20:19 |
| #2 "Who is Bourne?!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-09-09 19:59 |
| #1 Basically anyone can receive data transmitted from a satellite, but you need the crypto-keys to make sense of the data, which makes the keys very valuable. The beating of the child, described as 'severe', makes me think they were trying to get information out of Al Hilli. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2012-09-09 18:33 |