Posted on 03/05/2007 1:58:29 PM PST by 3AngelaD
WASHINGTON: A few hours after meeting a former KGB general outside a spy museum here, a Russia scholar and outspoken critic of the Kremlin became engulfed in the kind of intrigue he studies, when he was shot outside his suburban Maryland home.
The shooting Thursday occurred four days after the critic, Paul Joyal, warned on "Dateline NBC," the television news magazine, that a "message has been communicated to anyone who wants to speak out against the Kremlin: 'If you do, no matter who you are, where you are, we will find you and we will silence you in the most horrible way possible.' " Joyal was speaking about the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, a KGB defector, who was poisoned last fall in London.
A spokesman for the Prince George's County Police Department declined to say whether the police viewed the shooting as a reprisal or a coincidence. The spokesman, Corporal Clinton Copeland, said the police had "a vague description of two black males" fleeing the scene.
The federal authorities were leaning toward the view that Joyal was the victim of a street crime...
Joyal, 53, who was shot in the groin, was in stable condition on Saturday, the police said....
In the mid-1990s, Joyal went into business with Oleg Kalugin, a former KGB general who became a leading KGB critic and moved to Washington. The venture failed.
The two men met Thursday afternoon at a restaurant next to the International Spy Museum in downtown Washington. Soon after Joyal arrived home at 7:30, Kalugin got a panicked call from Joyal's wife, Elizabeth, who had found her husband shot in the driveway. "She called me and said, 'Oleg, Paul is shot, I want to warn you,'" Kalugin said. "I couldn't believe my ears."...
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The gun shots were probably self inflicted.
And so, a new Cold War begin...
And so, a new Cold War begin...
First a journalist fell 5 stories and now this. Putin is getting busy.
Maybe I should start to post nicer things about Putin.
Wow
Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti is open for business and business is good.
There's no grudge like a Soviet grudge.
Shot in the groin. Ouch. That'll leave a mark.
Shot by two black males in Prince George's County = street crime.
And the HITS just keep on coming.
MAYBE they'll see a pattern when all of Putin's critics assume room temperature. But I doubt it.
Hence the groin shot.
If he'd been shot by a white man named Sergei or Vladimir I'd be more suspicious.
If I was running an op like this, I would think about subcontracting it to a local gang-banger. Probably wouldn't cost very much either.
Nothing to see here, move along /s
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