What are the odds this is a street crime?

Dave1001 said:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/04/news/shoot.php

This doesn't sound like a street crime to me. The sequence of events seem rather improbable.
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The test of whether a theory is a whacky conspiracy or a reasonable possibility is to consider what one would think before it happened. I hadn't heard about the man, but I would have thought it quite likely that he might have suffered a violent end.

That is not the same thing as certainty though. Another lesson of conspiracy theories is that more information comes out as time goes on, and that clinging to the limited and frequently erroneous suggestions of the initial news reports is a bad idea.
 
If it was a Russian hit, why didn't they finish him off?


Joyal, 53, who was shot in the groin, was in stable condition on Saturday, the police said.
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I really don't think a professional would panic and leave the scene after one shot, but a couple of petty thugs who surprised a homeowner are more likely to react as such.
 
Former KGB general who is now critical of the KGB, and police investigating the crime, both say it doesn't look like a hit. Seems pretty straight forward to me. I'm sure if it DID look like a KGB hit the local cops would be more than happy to say so.

-Gumboot
 
Seems a little fishy. But like others have said, I think a hitman would have finished him off.

This case could get interesting as more information is released.
 
This doesn't sound like a street crime to me. The sequence of events seem rather improbable.
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Well, if I were to rely solely upon the limited information provided in the linked article, I'd be inclined to put the wife near the top of the suspect list myself :)
 
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Well he was shot in the groin. Coulda been Peter the Puny, a pensive, polite, pathetic, pretentious, pint-sized peashooter from St. Petersburg.
 
I would like to add to this. I have no source, but if I recall correctly the CIA and the KGB had a gentleman's agreement to not kill eachothers citizens on their own soil; i.e an American in America.

But:
  1. I'm not sure if this is even true (perhaps someone else can comment?)
  2. This was in the Soviet era (assuming it is true)
  3. this doesn't even seem to be a KGB hit in the first place
 
KGB died with the Soviet Union. But the current secret services FSB and SVR do not exactly hold a high reputation either.
 
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KGB died with the Soviet Union. But the current secret services FSB and SVR do not exactly hold a high reputation either.
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Some people just call the FSB the KGB anyway. No idea exactly why. Maybe because it sounds cooler?

It's also still called the KGB in Belarus. What a mind-blowingly useless fact.
 
Coritani said:
Some people just call the FSB the KGB anyway. No idea exactly why. Maybe because it sounds cooler?
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Weird, we do the same thing in Britain. What are popularly known as MI5 and MI6 have been the Security Service and Secret Intelligent Service for decades. Probably Bond's fault.
 
jhunter1163 said:
I'm sure that if the KGB still existed, and they were out to get this guy, they'd have gotten him.
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Intel agencies don't just disappear. Maybe the name changes to "Russian Mafia," or something. Maybe they "go rogue." But they don't all just retire to a life of reading spy novels, just because the economy collapsed. lol
 
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