Estonian Counterintelligence Officer Abducted to Russia at Gunpoint....

Estonian Public Broadcasting ^ | 9/5/2014

[Dagnabitt]

An official from the Internal Security Service (ISS), Estonia's national agency for counterintelligence and high-profile corruption investigations, was abducted at gunpoint at Luhamaa border checkpoint this morning where he was discharging service duties, and taken to Russia. There is no indication that the abduction is more than an isolated criminal incident, but on the backdrop of international tensions, the situation is being treated seriously. The incident occurred at about 9:00 on the Estonian side of the border and was preceded by jamming of communications and use of a smoke grenade, the agency said; the interference was said to originate from the Russia side.

[caligatrux]

There is no indication that the abduction is more than an isolated criminal incident...

Nothing to see here, move along.

[AU72]

Putin’s Baltic adventure begins.

[kabar]

Counterpoint to NATO conference.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Visions of Peter Graves.

[Dagnabitt]

Some initial probing along the front. Take some prisoners, gather intel.

[Dagnabitt]

Just some local vodka smugglers trying out their jamming equipment and smoke grenades.

[1rudeboy]

RT tweeted that he was a Nazi. So . . . no harm, no foul.

[no-to-illegals]

Wonder if Trout is hanging around?

[Dagnabitt]

Perhaps he resembled a Malaysian Airlines flight?

[GeronL]

Estonia is an easy target I guess having less than 2 million total people.

[Southack]

So 0bama visits, security goes into play, then one of the security guys gets abducted...

[Bogey78O]

Yup. I think Putin is growing tired of concealed warfare and is escalating till either he’s harmed his enemies or until they are forced to fight.

War is upon us and we’ve the least able president for it ever.

[WhiskeyX]

This event is reminiscent of the Venlo Incident in 1940 on the eve of the German invasion of neutral Netherlands, when the German SD agents engineered the abduction of two British intelligence officers and killed a Dutch officer. The Germans used the Venlo incident as a false pretext for the invasion of the neutral Netherlands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venlo_Incident

[sphinx]

Putin knows he has two and a half years of free runnning left before he faces even the possibility of challenge. D’ya suppose he can get the Berlin Wall rebuilt by then?

[Dagnabitt]

Scene of the crime.

[SMARTY]

That scene IS a crime!!

[ApplegateRanch]

an isolated criminal incident...

Putin's version of The Knockout Game.

[Dagnabitt]

Just a gentle giant defending itself.

[Alter Kaker]

The Russians haven’t invaded the Baltic states since 1944. And before that it hadn’t been since 1940 that they’d invaded. Give em a break.