...life is cheaper as you move east...
Posted on 07/14/2004 3:09:33 PM PDT by Flavius
Klebnikov Died of 10 Bullet Wounds — Paper
Created: 14.07.2004 13:01 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 16:35 MSK, 9 hours 28 minutes ago
MosNews
U.S.-born journalist Paul Klebnikov, the head of the Russian version of Forbes magazine, killed Friday night, died not in the hospital elevator but in the ambulance, Gazeta newspaper wrote Wednesday. It also reported that he had not four but ten fatal wounds.
The physicians in the ambulance did not immediately notice all the bullet holes, including one in Klebnikov’s head, the head of the information department of emergency station, Marina Zakharova, was quoted by the paper as saying.
The journalist began to faint in the ambulance. It was earlier reported that there had been no oxygen bags. Zakharova quoted by the paper said that it was impossible to use oxygen because a forced ventilation would have only intensified the internal hemorrhage in the lungs. Klebnikov’s heart stopped before the vehicle reached the hospital.
It was earlier reported that the elevator in the hospital got stuck after physicians entered with Klebnikov on the stretcher. A hospital surgeon, Zurab Marghiani, quoted by the paper said that at the last moment two unidentified persons, one in a police uniform, burst into the elevator. The man in the uniform told Marghiani he was to guard Klebnikov. Those two were the cause of the elevator sticking, the surgeon was quoted by the paper as saying.
After the physicians had taken the journalist to the operating room, they discovered up to 11 bullet holes on his body. Two of them were in his head, six in his breast, two in his stomach. “There were not less than nine, or maybe ten bullets,” Marghiani was quoted by the paper as saying. “All of them together were incompatible with life, but even each one of them separately could cause death.” Later, a forensic medical examination found that Klebnikov was wounded by 10 bullets.
Klebnikov’s brothers, Michael and Peter, speaking at the press conference in the U.S. embassy in Moscow, expressed confidence that Russian law enforcement structrures would find the murderers. They said that the disclosing of this crime was important for the United States and for Russia as well. Speaking about Forbes material on the richest people in Russia, they said that there was nothing uncommon in it and that it might not be connected with Klebnikov’s murder.
...life is cheaper as you move east...
One less pesky reporter drawing unwanted attention to the oil for food scandal.
This was a message that Russians don't want to be on any "richest" lists.
When Forbes published a list of the richest Russians it was met with high criticism. To be identified as rich there opens a person up to kidnappers and other scammers.
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That wasn't an example of socialized medicine it wasn't even a example of medicine! That was no medical misadventure either it was an assasination & yes the cops are involved from beginning to end. Also don't rule out the "Organizatsia" .
They always die in the ambulance?
/sarcasm
My wife went to school with his sister, and knew him as a child. She remembers how kind he was. She is heartbroken. Our prayers are with his family.
Amen.
wow had no idea it was this close to home
my opinion is the 'democracy' or whatever it is that was suppose to be there is non existant...
might as well put the curtain back up...
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