Mystery Over Russian General Found Dead on Turkish Beach

Guardian News (UK) ^ | Wednesday 1 September 2010 | Luke Harding

[anymouse]

Russians and muzzies going at each other again.

[onedoug]

¨From Russia With Love¨

[Beowulf9]

Over here, when they do you in, you never see the guy again, like Jimmy Hoffa.

Over there, they just let you be found and shrug.

‘eh, interresting.’

[WellyP]

Viktor Bout, the Russian Mafia weapons gun runner being extradited to the US by Thailand worked for the GRU and the same time as “The General”. Interesting timing, may be???

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This is very, extremely serious. Deputy head of Russia’s foreign military intelligence, the GRU. An organization as ruthless, perhaps more ruthless, than the KGB(*).

Unless his murder was ordered by the Russian government, which is a strong possibility, a whole bunch of people are going to die.

(*) Typically, back in Soviet times, someone declared a traitor in the GRU would be strapped to a gurney, and pushed headfirst into a blast furnace. They even made a video of that being done, to show new recruits.

[Doogle]

Jameski Bondski

[moovova]

Coincidence we have a dead Russian spy general and the movie “The American” with George Clooney opening on the same weekend?

I think not...

[FrdmLvr]

Did you see it? Was it any good?

[spokeshave]

Maybe he went surfing with former Aussie Prime Minister Harold Holt.

[rahbert]

Either Chechens masquerading as Syrian operatives,
or agents of a certain ME country (noted for efficient
spycraft) masquerading as Syrian operatives....

[shield]

This sounds like a Israeli operation and the Turks get the blame...LOL...

[Pan_Yan]

The Americanized headline would be:

'Top Russian Spy Unexpectedly Found Dead'

[Pan_Yan]

‘Went swimming’ in Syria.

Washed up in Turkey.

[shield]

Still sounds like an Israeli operation to me....now Syria gets the blame...

[Sawdring]

Over here, when they do you in, you never see the guy again, like Jimmy Hoffa.

Or they do it in front of a crowd in Dallas.

[Beowulf9]

“Or they do it in front of a crowd in Dallas.”

Oh, wow. Yes. Russian way.

[ScaniaBoy]

In 2004, two GRU agents killed the Chechen separatist leader Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, blowing up his SUV in Qatar. 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.

But at least they didn't forge any passports. /s

Note BTW, the Russians got caught, whereas the 52 or 101 or whatever Mossad agents all made it safely out of Dubai (even if some took the unorthodox route via Iran(!)).

[mmercier]

being in turkey must suck.

being dead on a beach in turkey must suck more.

a dead communist spook doesn't suck much.

[pissant]

SPECTRE

[SonsOfCollins_Wallace]

Bingo !!! You get the cigar.

There is no blame - one dead Commie enemy of Israel and a few more to come. By the way Serbia and Bulgaria have declared “in agreement with Israel” in past few weeks. Will Greece come in on the side of ALL former enemies of the "restarted" Ottoman Empire ??

Is an alliance around the Black Sea being created - Serbs/Croats/Bosnians/Georgians/Armenians/Kurds as prelude/start of the “Real Thang” ??

Recall that 3-4 years ago a report of Israel training the Kurds in use of auto-fired 155mm self-propelled guns in the northern Iraq region(adjacent to Iran). Then the info went "quiet".