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Heartstopping moment would-be assassin aims gun at Bulgarian opposition leader's head
The Daily Mail ^ | 19 January 2013 | Richard Hartley-parkinson

Posted on 01/19/2013 4:08:04 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

A Bulgarian politician today survived an extraordinary assassination attempt when a man stormed the stage and held a gun to his head as he was giving a speech.

Fortunately for Ahmed Dogan, leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, the weapon misfired giving him time to react and hit the would-be assassin's hand out of the way.

Before he could attempt a second shot the unidentified suspect was tackled to the ground by security guards and delegates attending the conference in Sofia.

The unnamed man clearly had a security pass for the Movement for Rights and Freedom party's annual conference

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1 posted on 01/19/2013 4:08:08 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Dogan was in the Bulgarian KGB. I’m not sure who to cheer for here.


2 posted on 01/19/2013 4:13:24 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998

This begs for a photoshop reply.


3 posted on 01/19/2013 4:32:29 PM PST by Kolath
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To: MinorityRepublican

MRF party is the political movement of Turks and Moslems in Bulgaria. The assassin is very likely the good guy here, though he will not be seen as such.
This is likely a photo of a man trying to stop growing islamist power in Bulgaria. Done emotionally, not intelligently.


4 posted on 01/19/2013 4:49:40 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Or maybe not ,,,looks like the assassin was an ethnic Turk with a criminal and doper history. So some kind of moslem/mafia intramural sports looks like a better guess.


5 posted on 01/19/2013 4:53:00 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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Was that legal? Doesn't Bulgaria have leftist extremist gun control? How could such a thing happen?
6 posted on 01/19/2013 5:24:07 PM PST by Standing Wolf
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7 posted on 01/19/2013 6:47:16 PM PST by reagan_fanatic (You are not now, and will never be my President, Mr. Obama.)
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