Posted on 02/11/2009 2:13:19 AM PST by james500
The air force chief of Azerbaijan, an oil producing state in the fragile southern Caucasus region, was shot dead outside his home on Wednesday, officials said.
General-Lieutenant Rail Rzayev was the most senior official to have been killed in ex-Soviet Azerbaijan, a country where Russia and the United States vie for influence, since the 1990s.
It was not immediately clear whether the motives for the killing were political.
"At approximately 8 a.m. (0400 GMT) at the entrance to his home the head of the air force and missile defense system was shot in the head and later died of his wounds in hospital," a source in the Interior Ministry said.
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Could have been a hunting accident, right?
Did he accidentally shoot himself in the back of the head several times?
Hmmmmm.....
He didn’t by any chance offer to host U.S. fighter planes after the recent events, did he?
/mark
Was there a trail of polonium leading to the body?
wasn’t/isn’t the Great Wagyu’s emmisary David Plouffe visiting Azerbijan?
Archduke Ferdinand moment?
no.
Hmmmm,
Start in Georgia, fly over Azerbaijan, bomb Iran back to 615AD
Then, drill and pump rich Azerbaijan oil fields to supply world markets
Next Problem!
Too bad they didn’t shoot them all down.
RIP.
However it was done whoever did it -— this scum deserved far worse.
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