Assassination Attempt ?

[blackfeather]

A young man has reportedly just been arrested in Moscow in connection with an attempted assassination of Tucker Carlson. According to reporter Simon Ateba, the man who has been arrested was reportedly being paid by Ukrainian intelligence to plant an explosive device in a vehicle used by Tucker while he was there to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin.


A video has just been released showing a 35-yr-old man by the name of Vasiliev Pyotr Alexeieovich, who claims he was ordered by the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ukraine Ministry of Defense in November 2023 to take an explosive device to the parking garage of the Four Seasons Hotel in Moscow and place it under the vehicle used to transport Tucker Carlson. Mr. Alexeievich claims he was going to be paid $4,000 for completing the task of attaching the explosive device to Carlson’s vehicle, but he was detained in the planning process. Near the end of the videotaped confession, the stone-faced alleged criminal admits his target was “American journalist Tucker Carlson” and says, “I’m sorry for what I did.”

- via @planettoday #PlanetToday: www.planet-today.com/2024/02/breaking-report-attempted-assassination.html

For what it is worth?  If this is true, the Ukrainians would not attempt an assassination on an American Journalist without permission of the United States officials.  I saw the video, of his confession.  There is a flurry of foreign reports out there concerning this I wonder if we will see it in US media?  This article seems to be from New Zealand.  If true, it is curious how they would have known he was going to be in Moscow.  I would think only the NSA who had tapped into his e-mails before would have the power to find out about his trip that early on.  I'd be eager to see if there is more information one way or the other concerning the validity of this report.

[Ozarks Tom]

blackfeather, Like you, the whole story makes no sense. Carlson is one of the most, if not the most like journalist in the country. Assassinating him would be the absolutely last thing the Ukrainians would want to be blamed for. Their support here would be gone in an instant.

That's not to say the Russians wouldn't kill him if they thought they could blame it on Ukraine though.

[farmrbrown]

I'm sad to say that I lost credibility on arrest reports in THIS country long ago and never had any for those coming out of Moscow.

[sunny225]

[blackfeather]

The Myrotvorets web site mentioned above is the Ukrainian kill list. Anyone they don't like is put on the list as a target to kill, several have been killed so far. Interestingly the kill list was originally hosted on NATO servers, till people complained about NATO hosting a kill list. Reporters who don't toe the Ukrainian line are often listed on it.

A US citizen reporter was arrested and killed in prison in Ukraine, true, he was against the war and reported stories unflattering to the Ukrainian cause, and the US didn't see fit to lift a finger.

[blackfeather]

Feb 27, 2024 0:18:09 GMT Ozarks Tom said:

blackfeather , Like you, the whole story makes no sense. Carlson is one of the most, if not the most like journalist in the country. Assassinating him would be the absolutely last thing the Ukrainians would want to be blamed for. Their support here would be gone in an instant.

That's not to say the Russians wouldn't kill him if they thought they could blame it on Ukraine though.

Not that they have much support left any way.  I believe this fight in congress is largely staged, no one wants to send bad money after worse, and keep funding a failure.  So they act as though they can't come to an agreement and hope Ukraine will go away. 

The Russians like Carlson, he is popular even in Russia.  Besides, the Putin interview was a win for the Russian government, you had Putin tell a half hour of Russian history without notes, and making only one mistake, that was claiming it was Zelensky's Father who fought NAZIs when it was his grandfather.  Then on the same night you have Biden stumbling over words and mixing up leaders of Egypt and Mexico, and making a fool out of himself.  As the world compared the two, it was a win for Russia.