A Hit In MD?

1:39 am EST March 4th, 2007 | Politics | 5 Comments

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.

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5 Responses to “A Hit In MD?”

  1. Dugger says:
    March 4, 2007 at 9:42 am

    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.

  2. Joshua Gaines says:
    March 4, 2007 at 11:54 pm

    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.

  3. Lib4 says:
    March 5, 2007 at 2:09 am

    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

  4. Lib4 says:
    March 5, 2007 at 11:02 am

    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

  5. mdhåtter says:
    March 5, 2007 at 7:08 pm

    Those Russians and their purges….