[lbo-talk] Russian journalist murdered

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 8 10:12:59 PDT 2006


Any ideas on who'd want to kill her? The execution of a journalist seems unsettling, even to non-journalists.

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Cui bono? Three ideas come to mind.

1. She had been writing on the Dubrovka theater hostage-taking. Now, it is widly believed that the only way a van full of weapon-toting Chechens could carry this out is by bribing corrupt elements in the FSB and/or police to let them through the streets of Moscow. Perhaps one of them got concerned.

2. She may have made an enemy among some less savory element of the military.

3. Somebody wanted to make the Kremlin look bad. The Kremlin itself benefits from this in no way. Just the opposite.

Or some combination of the above.

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