23-01-2011, 07:18 PM
Of course it was an intel op, Jim -- for all the reasons you properly state and more.
And it was not conceived out of whole cloth; rather, it smacks of antecedents/influences that date back as far as the assassination of Julius Caesar
Security stripping is one of the elements common to almost all conspiratorial, power-based assaults on targets routinely protected by professional, non-conspiratorial guards.
In our time, JFK, MLK, Diana, and the 9-11 targets were stripped of some/all of their defenses immediately prior to attack. Rabin and Bhuto too, if I'm not mistaken.
Not to mention Michael Corleone.
Why are the curtains open?
RFK was uniquely unprotected.
And it was not conceived out of whole cloth; rather, it smacks of antecedents/influences that date back as far as the assassination of Julius Caesar
Security stripping is one of the elements common to almost all conspiratorial, power-based assaults on targets routinely protected by professional, non-conspiratorial guards.
In our time, JFK, MLK, Diana, and the 9-11 targets were stripped of some/all of their defenses immediately prior to attack. Rabin and Bhuto too, if I'm not mistaken.
Not to mention Michael Corleone.
Why are the curtains open?
RFK was uniquely unprotected.
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If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene