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Roland99

(53,342 posts)
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 12:26 PM Dec 2019

Heavy gunfire heard near FSB HQ in Moscow




BREAKING: Heavy gunfire erupts near FSB building in central Moscow; reports of fatalities


Wtf is going on there??

Edit: update




UPDATE: BBC correspondent says additional gunfire heard after Russian officials said the attacker was 'neutralized'

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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Heavy gunfire heard near FSB HQ in Moscow (Original Post) Roland99 Dec 2019 OP
WTF is an FSB building? n/t Scotch-Irish Dec 2019 #1
FSB is the successor to the Soviet KGB Roland99 Dec 2019 #2
Holy shit! That's pretty weird! Scotch-Irish Dec 2019 #3
Disappointment over the impeachment of their asset? durablend Dec 2019 #5
The infamous Lubyanka, a monolith of sorrow Marengo Dec 2019 #28
You beat me to it. Obscure acronyms really suck (or, "OARS", I guess) nt Atticus Dec 2019 #29
More Poiuyt Dec 2019 #4
Here's a vid. dewsgirl Dec 2019 #7
in the RU, handguns are strictly regulated but - The Polack MSgt Dec 2019 #12
I remember the teenagers that were shooting at police, dewsgirl Dec 2019 #21
Putin is just tying up loose ends Yavin4 Dec 2019 #6
Is Putin doing some clean up work? Botany Dec 2019 #8
Probably. Trump has given a LOT of sensitive intel to russia. Scotch-Irish Dec 2019 #9
i'm still waiting for someone to connect the dots between the dude who had a bag thrown mopinko Dec 2019 #13
That was in Dec. 2016 and the man was one of the key computer/cyber workers in Putin's Botany Dec 2019 #15
thank you. iirc, there was another dude found dead in his car. mopinko Dec 2019 #16
This "thing" is so big that nobody outside of Putin and maybe Trump's consigiliere, Bill Barr know . Botany Dec 2019 #18
Right after the election, trump started getting security briefings, Ilsa Dec 2019 #26
No doubt .... once Trump was "elected" it was then time for Putin to start calling in his debt. Botany Dec 2019 #27
Was probably Putin doing away with some agents tasked with woodsprite Dec 2019 #10
Sounds like the safest guess. nt eppur_se_muova Dec 2019 #11
Keep following the trail of dead Russians.... SunSeeker Dec 2019 #14
it didnt get much attention here that the woman from the trump tower meeting mopinko Dec 2019 #17
You mean her boss? SunSeeker Dec 2019 #19
ah. thank you. mopinko Dec 2019 #20
It was a male boss of Vesel-whats-her-face back in Russia. Hortensis Dec 2019 #22
well, nothing is risky now, apparently. mopinko Dec 2019 #23
Actually, we know they're worried about after Trump. Hortensis Dec 2019 #24
Some loose ends being tied up? ck4829 Dec 2019 #25

Poiuyt

(18,087 posts)
4. More
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 12:29 PM
Dec 2019

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

The Polack MSgt

(13,159 posts)
12. in the RU, handguns are strictly regulated but -
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 12:53 PM
Dec 2019

semiautomatic rifles are pretty easy to get as are shotguns

Botany

(70,291 posts)
8. Is Putin doing some clean up work?
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 12:31 PM
Dec 2019

Did Trump tell Sergey Lavrov the names of agents we have inside of the FSB?

 

Scotch-Irish

(464 posts)
9. Probably. Trump has given a LOT of sensitive intel to russia.
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 12:41 PM
Dec 2019

He is a traitor, and that should have been part of the impeachment.

mopinko

(69,809 posts)
13. i'm still waiting for someone to connect the dots between the dude who had a bag thrown
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 12:58 PM
Dec 2019

over his head, and dragged out of a high level meeting.
it was about the time of the last visit from lavrov, iirc.

Botany

(70,291 posts)
15. That was in Dec. 2016 and the man was one of the key computer/cyber workers in Putin's
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 01:05 PM
Dec 2019

.... 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.

mopinko

(69,809 posts)
16. thank you. iirc, there was another dude found dead in his car.
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 01:09 PM
Dec 2019

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.

Botany

(70,291 posts)
18. This "thing" is so big that nobody outside of Putin and maybe Trump's consigiliere, Bill Barr know .
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 01:13 PM
Dec 2019

...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.

Ilsa

(61,675 posts)
26. Right after the election, trump started getting security briefings,
Fri Dec 20, 2019, 07:54 AM
Dec 2019

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.

Botany

(70,291 posts)
27. No doubt .... once Trump was "elected" it was then time for Putin to start calling in his debt.
Fri Dec 20, 2019, 08:06 AM
Dec 2019

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.

woodsprite

(11,854 posts)
10. Was probably Putin doing away with some agents tasked with
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 12:41 PM
Dec 2019

babysitting and controlling the US political situation.

mopinko

(69,809 posts)
17. it didnt get much attention here that the woman from the trump tower meeting
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 01:11 PM
Dec 2019

was killed in a helicopter crash recently. last week, i think.

mopinko

(69,809 posts)
20. ah. thank you.
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 02:39 PM
Dec 2019

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.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
22. It was a male boss of Vesel-whats-her-face back in Russia.
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 02:44 PM
Dec 2019

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.

mopinko

(69,809 posts)
23. well, nothing is risky now, apparently.
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 03:18 PM
Dec 2019

and i recall first hearing that line about the dead russians from clint watts, who would know.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
24. Actually, we know they're worried about after Trump.
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 03:52 PM
Dec 2019

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.

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