Report: Russia's military intelligence chief killed in secret operation in Lebanon

The Jerusalem Pist ^ | March 3, 2016 | MAAYAN GROISMAN

[Sawdring]

The Head of Russia's military intelligence service, Colonel-General Igor Sergun, was killed in January during a secret mission in the Lebanon's capital, Beirut, the Lebanese daily newspaper al-Akhbar reported Thursday.

The Kremlin announced the death of Sergun on January 4, saying that he died in Moscow after a heart attack. The military intelligence chief played a key role in the Russian seizure of Crimea in March 2014, and reportedly died three weeks after he was sent to Syria by Russian President Vladimir Putin to demand Syrian President Bashar Assad step aside.

[2banana]

Russians always get revenge

[Neu Pragmatist]

Interesting ...bet I know what nation states were behind this ..

[soycd]

Ignore the secrets and nuke islam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npUacQgC3Xw

[lodi90]

Let me guess. He had a heart attack.

[WENDLE]

God bless him and his family. He was fighting the Godless.

[anton]

Doesn’t make sense. Putin supports Assad.

[MarMema]

Memory eternal.

[Inyo-Mono]

My thoughts too.

[grey_whiskers]

I don’t know...is Jerusalem really “Pist” about this? (check the FR article header information)

[SatinDoll]

Yes Putin supports Assad. Beirut is in Lebanon. And the USA assassinates people with a substance that kills by heart attacks.

Now do you understand?

[Sawdring]

Lol, fat fingers on the tablet tonight!

[Nifster]

keep an eye on the middle east....it is getting way too interesting

[VanShuyten]

Beirut must be just an ant nest of the world’s clandestine services. It could be hard to point a finger at any one of them.

[JimSEA]

Me three? Assad has looked to a Russian savior. This doesn’t make sense.

[PAR35]

he was sent to Syria by Russian President Vladimir Putin to demand Syrian President Bashar Assad step aside.

Makes me doubt the entire story.

[mvonfr]

JPost is deteriorating lately.

The story about Sergun's being killed in Lebanon is not new, it originated at Stratfor who cited an anonymous ISIS source on January 6th, and was rebutted by the Russians on Jan 8th. It took two months of recycling through arab media for JPost to catch it.

Yes, the cause of general's death was reported as a heart attack, seemingly linked to the New Year celebrations.

[mvonfr]

There seems to be a problem with this particular reporter at JPost. A quick check resulted in two more fake stories, one about a Turkey invasion of Syria and one about DOZENS of Russian Generals killed in Syria.

[FlyingEagle]

He got breitbart disease

[Sawdring]

Good catch, thanks for the input.