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2010-09-06 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Mystery over Russian GRU general found dead on Turkish beach

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Posted by Anonymoose 2010-09-06 00:02|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Historically, Russia's intelligence agencies have often been fierce rivals.

Not so difficult to believe, for anyone ever having worked in the US intelligence community.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-09-06 09:04|| 2010-09-06 09:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Whacked while visiting Syria, a state run like a crime family, and no saber rattling from the Russian government.

Medvedev doesn't look surprised. Hmmm.

Posted by Mike Ramsey 2010-09-06 10:03|| 2010-09-06 10:03|| Front Page Top

#3 A base for the Russian Black Sea Fleet?Tartus Syria has to be 500 600 miles from the Black Sea. Maybe a Med Base?

Posted by johnmorrissey 2010-09-06 10:54|| 2010-09-06 10:54|| Front Page Top

#4 The Qatar authorities swiftly arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment two Russian GRU spies who were said in court to have been acting under direct orders from the Russian leadership. The pair were extradited back to Russia in 2005 to serve out their sentences on home soil. Both then promptly disappeared.

Hummm, and now a biggie washes up in the beach?

I'd say the screwed folks got the message no More "Returning Home" to vanish.

(Except into a six foot hole in the ground.)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-09-06 12:04|| 2010-09-06 12:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Beach, huh? From Here to Eternity...

Posted by M. Murcek 2010-09-06 13:03|| 2010-09-06 13:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Currents in that region head inland for a bit around northern Syria, then circle north and counterclockwise toward Turkey. That would put his death somewhere near or north of Tartus.

Coincidentally, a Syrian general who oversaw Syrian weapons shipments to Hesb'allah was assassinated in Tartus as well, back in August 2008.

Posted by Pappy 2010-09-06 17:17|| 2010-09-06 17:17|| Front Page Top

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