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| The Grand Turk |
| Kremlin hit squad 'assassinate Chechen Islamist in Istanbul' |
| 2011-09-23 |
| The relatives of three Chechen men gunned down in Istanbul last Friday have accused a Russian secret service hit squad of executing them on the Kremlin's orders. The triple murder was carried out by a lone gunman in less than thirty seconds using a 9mm pistol fitted with a silencer. It brought the number of Chechens assassinated in the Turkish city in the last four years to at least six. The gunman pumped eleven bullets into the three men in a busy Istanbul street before speeding off in a black getaway car. One of the murdered men, 33-year-old Berg-Haj Musayev, was said to be close to Doku Umarov, an Islamist terrorist leader who is Russia's most wanted man. The other two were said to be his bodyguards. It was Umarov who claimed responsibility for the January suicide bombing of Moscow's busy Domodedovo airport, an atrocity that left 37 people dead. Musayev's widow Sehida said she was sure the Russian secret service was behind her husband's murder, a view echoed by Murat Ozer, head of a Chechen diaspora group in Istanbul. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #12 Remember all of the hostages being taken in Beirut in the 1980s? Only happened to the Soviets once: they sent back assorted pieces in different boxes to the family of the man that they held responsible, their people were immediately released and no one else bothered the Soviets in that country. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2011-09-23 21:39 |
| #11 Who cares what they're called get the CIA/MI6 to copy them. I dont like accidents I want highly implausible deniability. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-09-23 21:28 |
| #10 "OVRA/NKVD/OGPU/OVRA/KGP" How about the Cheka? |
| Posted by: newc 2011-09-23 21:03 |
| #9 The Chechens didn't learn that you don't piss off Vlad. There is not a Chechen activist/thug/terrorist anywhere in the world that is safe from the reach of the OVRA/NKVD/OGPU/OVRA/KGP or whatever they call themselves now. Names don't mean a thing, if you screw with Russia, you will find you. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2011-09-23 11:11 |
| #8 What we should all appreciate about this is that it is cost effective and very surgical. However, this should be seen as just part of an effective campaign of three types of action. First is "plausible deniability". This is "making it look like an accident". This technique is important if there are more than one target, and you don't want to tip them, or the local authorities off. Second is the "mob hit". Pretty much this case, of walking up behind the target and giving him two in the back of the head, then walking away. The "two (or three) guys on (a) motorcycle(s)" is this kind of hit. Third is quite rare. I suppose it could be called "extreme prejudice", in which the assassination is meant to send a powerful message to the target's peers and superiors. In this case, death covered with bacon, and missing some parts. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-09-23 10:48 |
| #7 Actually, it is called flushing the prey. Works pretty good too. Call them and tell them the hit is on the way...GET OUT NOW!!! Prey panics, flees, hit team(s) is/are waiting, target gets popped. Everybody is happy...well, not everybody. |
| Posted by: Secret Asian Man 2011-09-23 10:41 |
| #6 This is Turkey "he left his room right before the special forces entered it". Tip off. |
| Posted by: Dale 2011-09-23 09:52 |
| #5 Update |
| Posted by: tipper 2011-09-23 09:28 |
| #4 The Russians can't afford all the trinkets for UAV kills, so they rely upon the 'old fashion' way. It's cheaper. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-09-23 09:11 |
| #3 Heh! |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2011-09-23 08:52 |
| #2 Bravo! The Russians aren't playing the catch and release game. |
| Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 2011-09-23 08:27 |
| #1 when neo Tzarism meets neo Ottomanism |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2011-09-23 08:06 |