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Malta car bomb kills Panama Papers journalist
The journalist who led the Panama Papers investigation into corruption in Malta was killed on Monday in a car bomb near her home. Daphne Caruana Galizia died on Monday afternoon when her car, a Peugeot 108, was destroyed by a powerful explosive device which blew the vehicle into several pieces and threw the debris into a nearby field.
A blogger whose posts often attracted more readers than the combined circulation of the country's newspapers, Caruana Galizia was recently described by the Politico website as a "one-woman WikiLeaks". Her blogs were a thorn in the side of both the establishment and underworld figures that hold sway in Europe's smallest member state.
Her most recent revelations pointed the finger at Malta's prime minister, Joseph Muscat, and two of his closest aides, connecting offshore companies linked to the three men with the sale of Maltese passports and payments from the government of Azerbaijan.
Panama Papers. Daphne Caruana Galizia's blog.
Also at BBC and The Washington Post.
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(Score: 4, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday October 19 2017, @05:26AM (12 children)
I don’t think anybody knows it was Russia that planted the bomb. They keep saying "Russia, Russia, Russia," and maybe it was. It could be Russia but it could be China, could also be lots of other people. I think it was Russia, but I think it was probably other people and/or countries, and I see nothing wrong with that statement. Nobody really knows. Nobody really knows for sure.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Thursday October 19 2017, @05:42AM (3 children)
Of course is wasn't Russia. It was the Illuminati.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @06:33AM (2 children)
Or, it could have been aWhite Salamander. [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday October 19 2017, @07:02AM (1 child)
The Maltarese Oval more likely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 4, Informative) by MostCynical on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:13AM
A cross Maltese (not a Maltese Cross nor a Malteser)
https://www.maltauncovered.com/malta-history/maltese-cross/ [maltauncovered.com]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltesers [wikipedia.org]
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:08AM (1 child)
Nobody knows, so it must have been a hit called in by the Donald. Careful what you say, lest he disagree. This is what you signed up for, you stupid Americans.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday October 19 2017, @02:06PM
I prefer to blame the Jews for everything. Jews and Catholics often did not get along.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by anubi on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:13AM (1 child)
Stuff like this is what happens if you piss the wrong people off.
We humans have a weird mode, called "agentic", which we can be placed in when we are subordinate. When in this mode, we can do unthinkable things, including murder, if that is what we are ordered to do.
The recinding of the judgements of the Nuremberg trials cemented the belief that people are not to be held accountable for their acts if committed in "agentic" mode. Had those people been held accountable for their acts, it would be likely nearly impossible for any authority to subordinate people sufficiently to carry out orders to murder.
( Stanley Milgram's study - Obedience to Authority - Psychology - Yale University )
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by etherscythe on Tuesday October 24 2017, @07:02PM
(citation needed)
When did they get rescinded? IIRC, there were still a few Nazi hunters still trying to track down the accused up to a few years ago.
"Fake News: anything reported outside of my own personally chosen echo chamber"
(Score: 3, Touché) by bzipitidoo on Thursday October 19 2017, @12:08PM (2 children)
What's the Maltese government doing about this murder? Nothing? Declare it a total, unsolvable mystery or pass it off with some pablum, you know, stuff happens, must have been the act of some deranged, unbalanced loner, which happens all the time (see Las Vegas), nothing anyone can do about that. In Malta, do citizens have the right to bear bombs?
Is the US going to invade Malta, and capture and imprison Muscat and his aides?
How about the EU, will they do something?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @02:57PM (1 child)
Who made the car battery?
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday October 19 2017, @06:30PM
Lawyer SOP: blame the party with the most money: Peugeot!
(Score: 3, Funny) by FatPhil on Thursday October 19 2017, @12:39PM
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