Apparent Gas Leak Kills Georgian Premier

[merwin]

Apparent Gas Leak Kills Georgian Premier

57 minutes ago Europe - AP
By MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI, Associated Press Writer

TBILISI, Georgia - Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, who helped lead the revolution that toppled the corruption-tainted regime of Eduard Shevardnadze, was killed early Thursday by an apparent natural gas leak, the ex-Soviet republic's interior minister said.

Zhvania, 41, was at a friend's apartment when the leak occurred, Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili said in a live broadcast on Rustavi-2 television.

"It is an accident," Merabishvili said. "We can say that poisoning by gas took place."

Security guards broke through a window early Thursday when they heard no signs of life inside several hours after the prime minister arrived, Merabishvili said. Zhvania had entered the apartment at about midnight and the guards broke in between 4 a.m. and 4:30 a.m.
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Nobody told them that you can poke a hole in a gas pipe and cause an 'accident' to happen.

[Stockholm]

1. Hope Yukashenko is well protected....n/t

[NYC]

2. Natural gas?

In the U.S., an odor is added to natural gas so that people can smell it when it leaks. If they were awake, why did they not smell it?

Sounds strange.

[Pert_UK]

3. Nothing to see here....move along!

I wonder if Sideshow Bob is a suspect?

Seriously though, this is dodgy as you like.....

P.

[Up2Late]

4. Maybe this was a Freak Accident too?

Just thinking out loud here, Hmmmmmm

Car Bomb Kills Three Police in Georgia
Tue Feb 1, 2005 01:35 PM ET

By Margarita Antidze

GORI, Georgia (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded outside a police station in ex-Soviet Georgia on Tuesday, killing three police and destroying the building in what officials called a "terrorist act."

Only the outside walls remained of the burned-out police headquarters in the town of Gori, some 80 km (50 miles) to the west of the capital Tbilisi.

"As a result of today's terrorist act -- and we can definitely say it was a terrorist act -- three policemen died and 15 people were seriously injured," Interior Minister Ivane Merabishvili told reporters at the site.

It was not clear who was behind the bombing, which happened just a few kilometers (miles) outside the breakaway region of South Ossetia.

President Mikhail Saakashvili said the bombers wanted to derail tentative peace moves between Tbilisi and the breakaway regime, which is tacitly backed by neighbor Russia.

"We should not give the enemies of peace the opportunity to wreck the peace process," Saakashvili said after an unscheduled meeting of Georgia's national security council. "What happened (was) an act of political terrorism."

Foreign Minister Salome Zurabishvili said the bombing was planned outside Georgia, but did not say where.

(more at link)
<http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7502182>

[IndianaGreen]

5. Old habits die hard

and KGB-style assassinations made to look like accidents or sudden illness are back in vogue in the former republics of the USSR.

[Moderator]

6. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1207943