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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Yep.
'zactly .....
we have not yet seen a Hillary grudge yet.
You're probably right. Putin wouldn't hire punks who couldn't do the job. Good call, I missed the two black males bit.
"If I was running an op like this, I would think about subcontracting it to a local gang-banger."
It's a possibility, but so is a street hold-up.
True, but it could even be a combination of the two.
Hire a gang-banger to put a bullet in his balls -- which is even more effective of a warning than killing him in some ways -- the shooter does it, but grabs the guy's wallet and watch as a sort of added bonus, or merely from force of habit.
Whatever it was, it couldn't have been timed more effectively to impress upon and remind Russian critics that the KGB -- let's forget the new name -- is capable and willing do perform "wet-work" anywhere in the world.
Shudder.
Two men interviewed for the Dateline program.
1 dead.
1 shot in the abdomen, but thankfully recovering.
I'd avoid ordering tea in a restaurant.
If I were going to shoot myself, it definitely wouldn't be in the groin.
FMCDH(BITS)
Clinton is somewhwere reading that article with a wistful smile, remembering the days when he could do that sort of thing with impunity.
Or a contract killing meant to look like a street crime.
Most like paid in "product" not cash. Likely a product of Afghanistan, which in turn was obtained by trading for weapons, of which the Russians still have a great surplus.
And which could be brought into the country in diplomatic bags, thus avoiding even the slightest security check.
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