Associate of dead Georgian PM commits suicide

[rooboy]

A political associate of Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, who died apparently of carbon-monoxide poisoning this week, has committed suicide, police said.

Georgy Khelashvili, 32, was found dead at his home last night of a gunshot wound, said Tbilisi police official Irakli Pirkhalala.

Khelashvili was a member of the presidential commission on pardons and part of Zhvania's United Democrats political bloc.

Pirkhalala said Khelashvili shot himself with a rifle that he had borrowed from a neighbour on the pretext of taking a hunting trip.

He left a note asking for forgiveness, Pirkhalala said, but did not give further details of the note's contents.

Though there was no immediate indication that the suicide was connected to Zhvania's death on Thursday, it is likely to add to the uneasy suspicions plaguing many Georgians after the passing of the widely respected prime minister.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Associate-of-dead-Georgian-PM-commits-suicide/2005/02/05/1107476857371.html

[T Roosevelt]

1. Coincidence?

I think not...

[annabanana]

2. Now I've got Georgia on my mind..

Can anyone here delineate this purge for me?

[merwin]

3. Someone else has been suicided? Something's fishy

[radwriter0555]

4. Wow, such a total coincidence!!! Kinda like thunderbolts and the bush

regime!

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. Sure, he had to borrow a rifle

to kill himself? How many times did he shot himself in the head?

[bemildred]

6. Ratshot no doubt. nt