Murder and the Panama Papers

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/malta-car-bomb-kills-panama-papers-journalist

We've had countless incidents like this in the United States. Investigators and journalists have been killed under the most suspicious of circumstances and they're deemed accidents.

Of course a car bomb cannot be written off and yet once again in the US I would not be surprised if it were chalked up as a leaking fuel line or something to that effect. There have been some pretty outrageous rulings that beggar belief.

I could of course be wrong but in this case it's hard not to imagine that this will somehow be pinned on Putin and the Western media will certainly lower the investigative standards bar and will willingly promote this line whether any evidence suggests it or not. This statement is hardly controversial as we've seen multiple examples of this both from the Cold War and today.

Daphne Galizia certainly made a lot of enemies. The story was significant and yet perhaps in some ways there's just as much of story in the fact that the Mainstream media dropped it pretty quick... except when it has proven convenient to trot out some 'facts'.

The recent investigatory connections to Azerbaijan bear watching. They may not have any connection to her death but Malta has been a smuggling hub for a long time. It's the sort of place where fighters are slipping in (possibly as refugees) and weapons and drugs are being moved by organised crime. It's just the sort of place the Anglo-American alliance makes use of in its Middle Eastern and Southern European intrigues. The Azerbaijan connection piques my interest to be sure.

Of course there are Panama Papers connections to Margaret Thatcher's mercenary son, members of the Spanish royal family, the Clinton Foundation and Ukraine's Poroshenko among many others. Will (or would) the media even consider such angles in this journalist's murder? I don't think so.

Obviously we'll just have to watch and wait. Maybe it was just domestic Maltese politics. It's a sad story but obviously this journalist knew the risks. She had angered some of the most powerful people in the world. She was courageous but did not take the necessary precautions to protect herself and now she leaves a husband and children behind.

The fact that Malta has called in the American FBI is also a point of interest. Yes, fine they're the 'premier' forensic investigators to be sure and yet I can't help but be a little cynical. I've read too much to be otherwise.