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Early Intelligence Suggests Prigozhin Was Assassinated, U.S. Officials Say
https://www.wsj.com ^ | Aug. 24, 2023 | Michael Gordon, Warren Strobel, Matthew Luxmoore, Alan Cullison

Posted on 08/24/2023 11:27:28 PM PDT by Enterprise

Preliminary findings indicate it wasn’t surface-to-air missile that took down Wagner leader’s plane.

The plane carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner paramilitary group, crashed as the result of an assassination plot but wasn’t shot down by a surface-to-air missile, U.S. officials said.

The preliminary U.S. government assessments, which officials stressed are incomplete, suggest that a bomb exploded on the aircraft or that some other form of sabotage caused the crash northwest of Moscow.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: alancullison; captainobvious; duh; kaboom; matthewluxmoore; michaelgordon; warrenstrobel
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1 posted on 08/24/2023 11:27:28 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: Enterprise

If a mob boss tells it’s ok, after you try and take him out, it’s really not ok.


2 posted on 08/24/2023 11:28:25 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: Enterprise
Early Intelligence Suggests Prigozhin Was Assassinated, U.S. Officials Say

Is "Early Intelligence" one of Captain Obvious' aliases or something?
3 posted on 08/24/2023 11:31:54 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Enterprise

Where was Vicky Nuland?


4 posted on 08/24/2023 11:49:41 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Enterprise

Where was Vicky Nuland?


5 posted on 08/24/2023 11:49:41 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Jonty30

Is old Russian saying: Revenge is best with chilled vodka and Ukrainian hooker while watching enemy crash and burn.


6 posted on 08/25/2023 1:17:42 AM PDT by Enterprise
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
“Early Intelligence suggests…”

Yeah, VERY early. Where’s all the concern over sources and methods now? The guy was probably offed but why announce it unless you want to sow discord? Maybe the IC knows nothing right now and this is just propaganda.

7 posted on 08/25/2023 1:27:49 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Enterprise

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8 posted on 08/25/2023 3:08:24 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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To: Enterprise

And they still don’t know who was selling that cocaine in the White House...


9 posted on 08/25/2023 3:17:51 AM PDT by Mashood
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To: Enterprise

If “American officials” say it, it is a lie.


10 posted on 08/25/2023 3:52:36 AM PDT by Gratia
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To: Enterprise
suggest that a bomb exploded on the aircraft

I saw the video of the jet going down but no prior sight of a rocket hitting it. My initial thought was a bomb too......

Unfortunately, there were other people on the jet too......

11 posted on 08/25/2023 3:58:29 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Enterprise

In another breaking story scientists have determined that water is wet!


12 posted on 08/25/2023 4:39:08 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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To: Mashood

The Crate of wine that was put on the plane—the one with the bomb that took him down—was it French Wine perhaps? No Wagner people to oppose the Foreign Legion when the roll into Niger. A very French way to handle a problem—an accident.


13 posted on 08/25/2023 4:42:11 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

He probably took his billions and quietly moved into retirement. Thats what was discussed in Moscow.


14 posted on 08/25/2023 4:48:32 AM PDT by Mashood
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To: mikey_hates_everything

“Maybe the IC knows nothing right now and this is just propaganda.”

Almost certainly true - my guess at the scenario:
1. Prigozhin plan goes down.
2. Top-level US meeting - objective: to come up with the scenario that most damages the Russian government (meaning blame it on Putin).
3. Send words to Washington Post and NY Times to publish that and claim it’s based on ‘intelligence’.

Much more likely:
1. Not Putin - too messy, too many innocents killed, would be a career-ender if traced to him (due to the innocents being killed). Much cleaner to ‘Epstein’ him or use one of the many other options.
2. Someone who teamed up with Prigozhin and was afraid he might talk. Makes a line-worker at the airport an offer he can’t refuse, like getting his family back alive.

(and no, for you Karens out there, I don’t have sources or links)


15 posted on 08/25/2023 5:06:52 AM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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To: Enterprise

Who and what to believe, eh?


16 posted on 08/25/2023 5:17:38 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: Enterprise

Well, duh. /s

“Bomb”

Gee: What happened to all the scuttlebutt about the ‘inward holes’ & ‘missile trail’?

Oh, you mean that might have been propaganda after all, just as some of us suggested?

Whooda thunk. /s/s


17 posted on 08/25/2023 5:22:41 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Mashood

Yes, they do.

The troubling part is that they know many believe it, and that nobody will hold them to account.

They also know exactly who is participating in the uke atm.


18 posted on 08/25/2023 5:25:12 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Enterprise

At least, that is the square the dart landed on.


19 posted on 08/25/2023 5:28:03 AM PDT by MMusson
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To: Mashood

“”””He probably took his billions and quietly moved into retirement. Thats what was discussed in Moscow.””””

Can a large, bold, charismatic, psychopathic, personality who is a billionaire simply disappear and live as a quiet unnoticed mouse?


20 posted on 08/25/2023 6:52:46 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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