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Kremlin critic shot in front of his Maryland home
International Herald Tribune ^ | March 4, 2007 | Jason DeParle

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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Everyone is still very doubtful the Kremlin had anything to do with this. Ahem.
1 posted on 03/05/2007 1:58:33 PM PST by 3AngelaD
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To: 3AngelaD

The gun shots were probably self inflicted.


2 posted on 03/05/2007 1:59:42 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: 3AngelaD

And so, a new Cold War begin...


3 posted on 03/05/2007 2:00:10 PM PST by paudio (WoT is more important than War on Gay Marriage!)
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To: 3AngelaD

And so, a new Cold War begin...


4 posted on 03/05/2007 2:00:11 PM PST by paudio (WoT is more important than War on Gay Marriage!)
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To: Paleo Conservative

First a journalist fell 5 stories and now this. Putin is getting busy.


5 posted on 03/05/2007 2:01:09 PM PST by unkus
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To: 3AngelaD

Maybe I should start to post nicer things about Putin.


6 posted on 03/05/2007 2:02:15 PM PST by mainepatsfan
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To: 3AngelaD

see also:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1795094/posts


7 posted on 03/05/2007 2:03:53 PM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: xcamel

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1795638/posts

And this...


8 posted on 03/05/2007 2:07:27 PM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: KylaStarr; Cindy; StillProud2BeFree; nw_arizona_granny; Velveeta; Dolphy; appalachian_dweller; ...

Wow


9 posted on 03/05/2007 2:08:33 PM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: 3AngelaD

Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti is open for business and business is good.


10 posted on 03/05/2007 2:09:52 PM PST by stm (Believe 1% of what you hear in the drive-by media and take half of that with a grain of salt)
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To: stm

There's no grudge like a Soviet grudge.


11 posted on 03/05/2007 2:10:43 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: 3AngelaD

Shot in the groin. Ouch. That'll leave a mark.


12 posted on 03/05/2007 2:11:23 PM PST by KellyAdmirer
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To: 3AngelaD

Shot by two black males in Prince George's County = street crime.


13 posted on 03/05/2007 2:12:15 PM PST by popdonnelly ([Democrats] are jubilant at our disasters and are cast down when the rebels are defeated -Sept. 1862)
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To: 3AngelaD

And the HITS just keep on coming.


15 posted on 03/05/2007 2:16:27 PM PST by Quick or Dead (Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms - Aristotle)
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To: 3AngelaD

MAYBE they'll see a pattern when all of Putin's critics assume room temperature. But I doubt it.


16 posted on 03/05/2007 2:17:16 PM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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'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.'

Hence the groin shot.

17 posted on 03/05/2007 2:17:55 PM PST by glorgau
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To: popdonnelly

If he'd been shot by a white man named Sergei or Vladimir I'd be more suspicious.


18 posted on 03/05/2007 2:19:25 PM PST by RockinRight (My wish for Islam - The Glass Parking Lot Formerly Known As The Middle East.)
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To: popdonnelly

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.


19 posted on 03/05/2007 2:19:32 PM PST by Ronin (Ut iusta esse, lex noblis severus necesse est.)
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To: 3AngelaD

Nothing to see here, move along /s


20 posted on 03/05/2007 2:25:17 PM PST by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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