From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

George Sherwood wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:39:31 +0000, Adam wrote:
>
>> Wotcha reckon to Paul Joyal being bumped off?
>>
>> IMHO ....it's exactly wot I was saying about once you let these people
>> off the leash then...eventually the US will become just another killing
>> zone for them.
>>
>>
>> Or it could just be a robbery where nothing was taken.
>
> IMHO, the Soviets/Russians and many others (the US not being completely
> innocent) have been bumping off "enemies" in other countries
forever.  I
> still don't see your connection to anything the US has done recently.  I
> believe you are making an invalid connection.
>

Hum.. Following the end of the cold war (in fact it is possible that there
was an inter-agency understanding before that) the political cost of using
an intel org to kill enemies of the state within nations such as the US (or
indeed the US killing ppl within Russia) was understood to
 be not worth the political cost.

Now following the WoT the political cost has dropped to near 0 (i.e. due to
rendition/kidnapping etc as a matter of US policy)

Who knows though....possibly the EU investigations into rendition etc may
well raise that political cost back to where it should be.


> As far as his case, who know.  Most likely something to do with his work.
> There is a hugh Russian community in the DC area.
>

I can believe it. Do you reckon it was to do with his work in Georgia?

I have some photos of the Pankisi Gorge taken during (if memory serves me
well) during the 1990'es ("Adventure tourism" ) & I
seem to recall conversations in hotel lobbies with this bod (& at one
US embassy drinks
& cocktail sausages event).

Not too popular with some further north as a result.

Heck maybe it woz de abkazi....

I wonder if he even caught sight of the "robber".

Adam

Adam

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