Thu Dec 19, 2019, 12:26 PM
Roland99 (53,230 posts)
Heavy gunfire heard near FSB HQ in MoscowLink to tweet BREAKING: Heavy gunfire erupts near FSB building in central Moscow; reports of fatalities
Wtf is going on there?? Edit: update Link to tweet UPDATE: BBC correspondent says additional gunfire heard after Russian officials said the attacker was 'neutralized' Link to tweet … BNO News ✔ @BNONews BREAKING: Suspect "neutralized" after shooting near FSB headquarters in central Moscow, officials say; number of victims not yet clear - TASS
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Roland99 | Dec 2019 | OP |
Scotch-Irish | Dec 2019 | #1 | |
Roland99 | Dec 2019 | #2 | |
Scotch-Irish | Dec 2019 | #3 | |
durablend | Dec 2019 | #5 | |
Marengo | Dec 2019 | #28 | |
Atticus | Dec 2019 | #29 | |
Poiuyt | Dec 2019 | #4 | |
dewsgirl | Dec 2019 | #7 | |
The Polack MSgt | Dec 2019 | #12 | |
dewsgirl | Dec 2019 | #21 | |
Yavin4 | Dec 2019 | #6 | |
Botany | Dec 2019 | #8 | |
Scotch-Irish | Dec 2019 | #9 | |
mopinko | Dec 2019 | #13 | |
Botany | Dec 2019 | #15 | |
mopinko | Dec 2019 | #16 | |
Botany | Dec 2019 | #18 | |
Ilsa | Dec 2019 | #26 | |
Botany | Dec 2019 | #27 | |
woodsprite | Dec 2019 | #10 | |
eppur_se_muova | Dec 2019 | #11 | |
SunSeeker | Dec 2019 | #14 | |
mopinko | Dec 2019 | #17 | |
SunSeeker | Dec 2019 | #19 | |
mopinko | Dec 2019 | #20 | |
Hortensis | Dec 2019 | #22 | |
mopinko | Dec 2019 | #23 | |
Hortensis | Dec 2019 | #24 | |
ck4829 | Dec 2019 | #25 |
Response to Roland99 (Original post)
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 12:27 PM
Scotch-Irish (464 posts)
1. WTF is an FSB building? n/t
Response to Scotch-Irish (Reply #1)
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 12:27 PM
Roland99 (53,230 posts)
2. FSB is the successor to the Soviet KGB
Response to Roland99 (Reply #2)
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 12:29 PM
Scotch-Irish (464 posts)
3. Holy shit! That's pretty weird!
Thanks for the info. Wonder what is going on?
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Response to Scotch-Irish (Reply #3)
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 12:30 PM
durablend (7,174 posts)
5. Disappointment over the impeachment of their asset?
Response to Scotch-Irish (Reply #1)
Fri Dec 20, 2019, 09:01 AM
Marengo (3,477 posts)
28. The infamous Lubyanka, a monolith of sorrow
Response to Scotch-Irish (Reply #1)
Fri Dec 20, 2019, 09:13 AM
Atticus (15,124 posts)
29. You beat me to it. Obscure acronyms really suck (or, "OARS", I guess) nt
Response to Roland99 (Original post)
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 12:29 PM
Poiuyt (17,767 posts)
4. More
Media reports in Russia say that an unidentified person opened fire from a Kalashnikov assault rifle near the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB) in Moscow on December 19.
The shooting reportedly took place in a parking area and police cordoned the area. There were conflicting reports about the number of casualties. The Izvestia newspaper reports that three people were killed in the shooting. Another Russian daily, RBC, quoted a source in the Moscow police as saying that one person might have been shot dead in the incident that took place near the Kuznetsky Bridge not far from Lubyanka Square. https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-deadly-shooting-fsb-building-moscow/30334399.html |
Response to dewsgirl (Reply #7)
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 12:53 PM
The Polack MSgt (12,220 posts)
12. in the RU, handguns are strictly regulated but -
semiautomatic rifles are pretty easy to get as are shotguns
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Response to The Polack MSgt (Reply #12)
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 02:40 PM
dewsgirl (14,956 posts)
21. I remember the teenagers that were shooting at police,
and then killed themselves, in Russia.
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Response to Roland99 (Original post)
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 12:31 PM
Yavin4 (34,251 posts)
6. Putin is just tying up loose ends
Covering all tracks.
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Response to Roland99 (Original post)
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 12:31 PM
Botany (68,142 posts)
8. Is Putin doing some clean up work?
Did Trump tell Sergey Lavrov the names of agents we have inside of the FSB?
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Response to Botany (Reply #8)
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 12:41 PM
Scotch-Irish (464 posts)
9. Probably. Trump has given a LOT of sensitive intel to russia.
He is a traitor, and that should have been part of the impeachment.
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Response to Botany (Reply #8)
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 12:58 PM
mopinko (67,269 posts)
13. i'm still waiting for someone to connect the dots between the dude who had a bag thrown
over his head, and dragged out of a high level meeting.
it was about the time of the last visit from lavrov, iirc. |
Response to mopinko (Reply #13)
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 01:05 PM
Botany (68,142 posts)
15. That was in Dec. 2016 and the man was one of the key computer/cyber workers in Putin's
.... 2016 rat fucking of our elections. The meeting w/Lavrov and Kislyak with Trump in the
oval office was late winter/early spring 2017 but i have no doubt that Trump/Kushner/Manafort all would have given up any Russians we had working for us inside of Russia. |
Response to Botany (Reply #15)
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 01:09 PM
mopinko (67,269 posts)
16. thank you. iirc, there was another dude found dead in his car.
so, after the election, briefings given, and the investigation already well under way.
hmmmm. didnt need to have them in the oval to leak, of course. |
Response to mopinko (Reply #16)
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 01:13 PM
Botany (68,142 posts)
18. This "thing" is so big that nobody outside of Putin and maybe Trump's consigiliere, Bill Barr know .
...all the moving parts. Putin has been cleaning up loose ends ever since the election. I feel bad
for the guy but some poor bastard got pushed out of a 5th story window by his bath tub in Moscow. |
Response to Botany (Reply #15)
Fri Dec 20, 2019, 07:54 AM
Ilsa (61,226 posts)
26. Right after the election, trump started getting security briefings,
IIRC, and Jared Kushner was still talking to the family friends in Russia. I believe trump and family are full-in on helping Putin root out our intel sources in Moscow.
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Response to Ilsa (Reply #26)
Fri Dec 20, 2019, 08:06 AM
Botany (68,142 posts)
27. No doubt .... once Trump was "elected" it was then time for Putin to start calling in his debt.
Flynn was doing this in his calls to Ambassador Kislyak in Nov. & Dec. 2016.
Trump and company have no problem with "giving up" people to hostile foreign leaders look @ Kushner giving the PDB (Presidential Daily Briefing) papers (that are highly classified) to Saudi's Crown Prince MBS who then turned around and used that info to kill the Washington Post's Khashoggi. After which Trump and Pompeo ran a cover operation for the Crown Prince. BTW Turkey's thug leader Erdogan knows all about this scam and now has leverage over Trump so Trump gave him the green light to cross into Syria and kill our allies, the Kurds. Trump and company are highly compromised as is all the republicans in Congress who took all that Russian/NRA money. |
Response to Roland99 (Original post)
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 12:41 PM
woodsprite (11,538 posts)
10. Was probably Putin doing away with some agents tasked with
babysitting and controlling the US political situation.
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Response to woodsprite (Reply #10)
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 12:51 PM
eppur_se_muova (35,367 posts)
11. Sounds like the safest guess. nt
Response to Roland99 (Original post)
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 01:00 PM
SunSeeker (49,655 posts)
14. Keep following the trail of dead Russians....
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Response to SunSeeker (Reply #14)
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 01:11 PM
mopinko (67,269 posts)
17. it didnt get much attention here that the woman from the trump tower meeting
was killed in a helicopter crash recently. last week, i think.
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Response to mopinko (Reply #17)
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 02:28 PM
SunSeeker (49,655 posts)
19. You mean her boss?
Response to SunSeeker (Reply #19)
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 02:39 PM
mopinko (67,269 posts)
20. ah. thank you.
admit i didnt read the story at the time, clicked the link, saw another dead russian, and moved on. sad reality of the times that have found us.
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Response to mopinko (Reply #17)
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 02:44 PM
Hortensis (56,804 posts)
22. It was a male boss of Vesel-whats-her-face back in Russia.
He reportedly directed her activities. Helicopters do crash.
![]() We do have suspicion that a 2015 death in a NY hotel room may have been a Russian hit on U.S. soil. Mikhail Levsin had been close to Putin, and I read the hotel room was paid or arranged by our justice department. Federal investigation concluded he died after multiple falls over a days-long drunk. Murder on U.S. soil would have been very risky under previous presidents. |
Response to Hortensis (Reply #22)
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 03:18 PM
mopinko (67,269 posts)
23. well, nothing is risky now, apparently.
and i recall first hearing that line about the dead russians from clint watts, who would know.
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Response to mopinko (Reply #23)
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 03:52 PM
Hortensis (56,804 posts)
24. Actually, we know they're worried about after Trump.
Before Trump was elected there was a big schism over the wisdom of taking us on. Now, after some huge victories internationally, and against us, but no lifting of sanctions, no ability to finally profit from their huge oil investments, only at best new sanctions not YET applied, they're once again looking to the time to pay the piper. There's a big reason why they're trying to make American voters believe it was Ukraine that was behind electing Trump, or attacked Trump, depending on faction.
Of course, their need to make sure there's no accountability under Democrats after Trump has to worry us. They had lots of room to back off in 2016. No more. |
Response to Roland99 (Original post)
Fri Dec 20, 2019, 07:43 AM
ck4829 (34,480 posts)