[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] A Bulgarian politician today survived an extraordinary liquidation attempt when a man stormed the stage and held a gun to his head as he was giving a speech.
Fortunately for Ahmed Dogan, leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, the weapon misfired giving him time to react and hit the would-be assassins hand out of the way.
Before he can attempt a second shot the unidentified suspect is tackled to the ground by security guards and delegates attending the conference in Sofia.
Television footage showed the man jumping out of the audience and interrupting a speech by 58-year-old Dogan, who has led the party for almost a quarter of a century.
In a split second, he raises the gun to Mr Dogan's head but it appears to misfire.
The politician then knocks gone the gun away and falls to the floor as he attempts to flee.
Security guards and delegates rush onto the stage where they wrestle the attacker to the ground. A separate group surrounds a shocked Mr Dogan in a protective shield.
Politicians then appear from the audience and begin raining blows on the suspect as he is pinned to the ground. He was later pictured being taken away by police bloodied and bruised.
'Ahmed Dogan is in good health. Everything is under control,' Movement for Rights and Freedoms official Ceyhan Ibryamov told journalists.
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Grill him (Yes torture's OK) and execute him.
(BE DAMN SURE TO GET THE NAMES OF HIS HANDLERS)
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
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I watched the video. Holy crap.
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That fellow he tried to shoot did the right thing and attacked the attacker before he could chamber o re-chamber a round. Had he turned and ran, might have been a different outcome. Brave old bugger he was.
[An Nahar] Prosecutors on Friday accused Ukraine's tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko of organizing the 1996 murder of a powerful politician and warned that a guilty verdict could put her behind bars for life.
Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka said the fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... 52-year-old has been informed by prosecutors she and another former prime minister jugged You have the right to remain silent... in the United States are now formal suspects in the murder of deputy Yevgen Shcherban.
"We have collected evidence from the pre-trial investigation indicating that Tymoshenko really did order this murder together with (former prime minister Pavlo) Lazarenko," Pshonka told news hounds.
"Today, an investigative team from the prosecutor general's office visited Tymoshenko in order to hand her (her documents on) suspicion of having committed a crime."
He said the opposition leader has been named as suspect under an article in the criminal code which meant she could spend the rest of her life in prison.
Tymoshenko was sentenced to a seven-year jail term in 2011 amid Western outrage at her treatment by the government of her rival, President Viktor Yanukovych.
She is currently being treated for back pain in a hospital outside her prison in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
The start of her second trial on embezzlement and tax evasion has been delayed until February 12 because of her medical condition.
Tymoshenko has also refused to cooperate with either her state doctors or the courts.
Both the 2004 pro-democracy Orange Revolution leader and her supporters claim that all the charges against her as well as the possible murder charges are retribution by the Yanukovych government.
The charges against Tymoshenko and Lazarenko -- a former prime minister and close ally who was convicted and tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! for money laundering in the United States in 2006 -- state that the two paid $2.8 million to a contract killer to eliminate Shcherban.
The powerful politician and businessman was bumped off in a gangland-style shooting at an airport in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk in November 1996.
He was shot by men who pulled up to Shcherban in a car as soon as he stepped down from a passenger jet onto the tarmac.
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