One has to wonder if it’s possible that Vladimir Putin’s government is pulling off attempted assassinations in Maryland.
Federal and local law enforcement authorities are investigating a shooting in Prince George’s County that critically injured a prominent intelligence expert who specializes in the former Soviet Union.
Paul Joyal, 53, was shot Thursday, four days after he alleged in a television broadcast that the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin was involved in the fatal poisoning of a former KGB agent in London.
Doubt it. Prince Georges has a high murder rate. Joyal is a long time US citizen and not a Russian or ex Soviet. He’s influential in a few insider circuits here, but not particularly so over there. Makes little sense for Putin to have him killed – in the US.
Them Rooskies ain’t that stupid.
They still have a lot of institutional intelligence left over the KGB era. There’s hardly any reason for them to engage in this and a world of reasons for them not to.
They’d have a busy couple of decades if they wanted to silence every one of their critics.
Dont be so quick to write off this atttmpt…Putin has left a trail of bodies connected to this case for well over 2 years
Wow that was fast……I just read that a 14th journalist has died in under mysterious circumstances in Russia…..
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/03/russian_journal.html
Those Russians and their purges….