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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Dogan was in the Bulgarian KGB. I’m not sure who to cheer for here.
This begs for a photoshop reply.
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.
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.
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