Vladimir Putin assassination attempt 'foiled'

Telegraph Media Group Limited ^ | 1:12pm GMT 15/03/2008 | Will Stewart

[samson1097]

I would be suprised too suprised if the real target were Medvedev. I can think of someone who would feel obligated to run the country with his passing.

[samson1097]

Whoops. I meant:

I wouldn't be too suprised if the real target were Medvedev. I can think of someone who would feel obligated to run the country with his passing.

[snarks_when_bored]

Where’s the polonium-210 when you need it?

[gondramB]

>>A man with a sniper rifle and Kalashnikov assault gun was found and detained in a rented apartment overlooking Moscow’s St Basil’s Cathedral, on March 2, the day of the Presidential election in Russia.<<

This is clearly the government’s fault for not banning assault weapons.

[Emperor Palpatine]

From “Pravda”

..and his name is Leonid Harveskovich Oswaldski.....known capitalist sympathizer who defected to the US for several years but decided to return....

The KGB has found backyard photos of this mad with the sniper rifle in one hand and a copy of “The Wall Street Journal” in the other. He is going to be transferred to the Moscow jail tomorrow morning.”

In other news....Moscow nightclub owner Yacob Rubynovitch is closing his clubs tonight in honor of failed attempt.....”

Filmski at 11.

[gondramB]

:)

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

[KarlInOhio]

Vladimir Putin assassination attempt 'foiled'

Was I the only one wondering if the title referred to an assassination attempt against Putin or an assassination attempt by Putin?

[higgmeister]

Shakhvelad Osmanov

RoP MA Bump!

[higgmeister]

Those Pycckos better learn who their friends are.

[Gorzaloon]

I doubt this happened.

It's just another Reichstag Fire to justify a further descent into totalitarianism. What little remains of the embryonic Democracy/Svboda beginnings died today

[Levante]

“Putin assassination attempt foiled”

Sounds like a trumped up excuse for Pukin to begin a purge...

[JasonC]

If true - which I doubt - nice try, next time get it right, it couldn't happen to a more deserving scumbag.

[JasonC]

Likely. The apartment bombings were also likely a "reichstag fire" event. All these dictators start off the same way.

[purpleraine]

Someone will be sore in the morning.

[Stonewall Jackson]

It’s not a secret if more than one person knows about it.

[JasonC]

Nah, if even two people agree to lie about it, and any third person believes them, it is still a secret in practice. When it is a lot more than one "third person", it is politically effective, too.

Plenty of people in the west know Putin is scum, but enough don't want to believe it that he gets away with murder. Literally.

[sono]

"and his name is Leonid Harveskovich Oswaldski..." The suspect proclaimed: "Я справедлив patsy." (I am just a patsy.)

[dr_who_2]

The gunman was named by the newspaper as Shakhvelad Osmanov, a 24-year-old Tajik national. His sniper rifle was said to be foreign-made and to have optical lenses, it said.

It would be interesting to see if anyone has ever made a sniper rifle with non-optical lenses.