"self inflicted" huh?

since when does someone shoot THEMSELVES in the mouth?...in order to punish themselves?

this happened JUST after he talked to the press about "corrosive" financial issues in the military?

sounds like he was punished for talking alright...but by someone else...

IMO: it's easy to imagine someone pointing a gun at your mouth and telling you to "shut the f up about that corruption bulljive!!"....and then pull the trigger (depending on careful circumstances)

it's a warning. an example for others to heed.

(from the corrupt): "don't go talking about our private interests like that or else you're going to get a bullet through the mouth!"

Very interesting.

Not to be redundant from another thread, but:

Not being a facial ballistics expert, is it not almost miraculous that someone who has suffered a gun shot to the cheek can be speaking just two days later?

Anyhow, there still is a suspicious aspect to all of this, in my humble opinion, especially considering his work on the infamous Smolensk plane crash case.

Thanks for posting.

the Billmeister

Anybody feel like pointing out what was actually leaked/under investigation?

Originally posted by metalshredmetal
"self inflicted" huh?

since when does someone shoot THEMSELVES in the mouth?...in order to punish themselves?

this happened JUST after he talked to the press about "corrosive" financial issues in the military?

sounds like he was punished for talking alright...but by someone else...

IMO: it's easy to imagine someone pointing a gun at your mouth and telling you to "shut the f up about that corruption bulljive!!"....and then pull the trigger (depending on careful circumstances)

it's a warning. an example for others to heed.

(from the corrupt): "don't go talking about our private interests like that or else you're going to get a bullet through the mouth!"

I'm more inclined to believe it was staged rather than being an assault. The room in which the press release was being conducted is also the same room that he shot himself in (e.i his office). Everybody was in that room and then everyone left, except for the Colonel. I'm not really sure where somebody could have hid themselves.

A lot of people mention the the window being open as well. "Why would a window be open during the winter?" they ask. "Perhaps, a gun man shot him and escaped through the window." I hardly believe this to be the case.

If you watch the full video where the camera man views his motionless body laying there after the shot, you can clearly see that his feet are lined up with the window, as if he was standing there. Maybe he wanted a breath of fresh air? Maybe he wanted to add to the validity of him staging his death? Maybe he wanted somebody to watch him?

Also, I can't imagine a gunman shooting this man in the cheekbone and causing the Colonel to completely go unconscious. A bullet to the cheekbone is in no way fatal. I would imagine that a military man of his stature (size-wise) would be more inclined to writhe in pain and yell than to fall face first into the ground and pass-out.