Posted on 10/23/2009 10:05:26 PM PDT by roses of sharon
Police are investigating after a British nuclear energy expert involved in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme fell 40 metres to his death from a UN building in Vienna.
Officials announced today (Weds) that the man – named as Timothy Hampton – died on the spot yesterday after a fall from the 17th floor at Vienna International Centre (VIC), one of the United Nations’ (UN) main headquarters along with New York, Nairobi and Geneva.
Authorities said the 47-year-old man – a member of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) – had joined the UN’s current talks with Iran over its nuclear programme.
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This is shocking!
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Nuclear Fallout [Mark Steyn]
Strange developments at the Iranian nuke talks:
A British nuclear expert has fallen to his death from the 17th floor of the United Nations offices in Vienna.
The 47-year-old man died after falling more than 120ft to the bottom of a stairwell. He has not been named.
He worked for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, an international agency charged with uncovering illicit nuclear tests.
A UN spokesman in the Austrian capital said there were no “suspicious circumstances” surrounding the man’s death...
Four months ago another UN worker also believed to be British fell from a similar height in the same building, it has been reported.
Hmm. I’d advise Mohammed El Baradei’s surviving colleagues to take the elevator, but then again the aunt of Kofi Annan’s discredited sidekick Benon Sevan fell to her death accidentally stepping into an empty elevator shaft shortly before she was due to be questioned about the Oil-for-Food scandal. If you work at the UN, get a gig on the ground floor.
10/23 10:46 PMShare
I don’t.
From Sky News:
“Four months ago another UN worker also believed to be British fell from a similar height in the same building, it has been reported.”
IIRC throwing people from rooftops was a big yuck in saddams bathist iraq....hrmmm...
Steyn is the author? I hadn’t seen that.
I'm not prone to conspiracies...but this is just too much.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/16059
Before British nuclear experts “falling to their deaths” at CTBTO became news, the organization was arguably best known for being on vacation rather than on watch during the critical warning period when Dec. 26, 2005’s devastating tsunami hit South Asia.
I think the process used to be called “defenestration.” It described the tendency of inappropriate personnel falling out of windows in high buildings.
That Steyn is on this is ... a big deal.
“defenestration.”= It described the tendency of inappropriate personnel falling out of windows in high buildings
It the new Arkancide
I think the process used to be called “defenestration.” It described the tendency of inappropriate personnel falling out of windows in high buildings.
You are correct. It was popular in the USSR in the 1950s, and oddly enough during the Wars of Religion in Europe during the 1500’s.
I don’t suppose the UN uses security cameras in their stairwells.
A lot of journalists fell out of windows during Putin’s terms in Russia as well. I have a gut feeling this is Russia flexing its new muscle to assist Iran.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Safronov
Ruled self-defenestration after a trip to Abu Dhabi. natch.
Rooskies.
Nothing to see here. Move along...
That’s exactly what they said about all of these dead scientists...
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/deadbiologists.html
Defenestration is actually the process of going through the window. A guy being thrown through the window of a saloon in a brawl the Westerns were so fond of is defenestrated. The fall is another matter. Anyhow, these guys wound up at the bottom of a stairwell, so I doubt they were defenestrated.
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