Quote: (09-26-2016 10:03 AM)El Chinito loco Wrote:
I like reading about high level assassination incidents.
One of my favorites is the Herrhausen assassination. I won't bore you with the details but let's just say it involves the Bilderberg group, lots of bankers, and disagreeable policies. This guy had an extensive bodyguard and armored car with motorcade detail with front and back car escorts. He knew that various world leaders were extremely pissed at him.
The people who assassinated him rigged an explosive charge with a metal plate projectile trigged by laser trip which went through his bulletproof vehicle door and killed him via shaped charge.
The Herrhausen assassination is a joke. There's no way the students-turned-terrorists and amateur bombmakers of the RAF were behind it, the official explanation is ridiculous.
Just look at
what happened:
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Herrhausen fell victim to a sophisticated roadside bomb shortly after leaving his home in Bad Homburg on 30 November 1989. He was being chauffeured to work in his armoured Mercedes-Benz, with bodyguards in both a lead vehicle and another following behind.
The bomb had been hidden in a saddle bag on a bicycle next to the road that the assassins knew Herrhausen would be traveling in his three-car convoy. In the bag was a 7 kg bomb that was detonated when Herrhausen's car interrupted a beam of infrared light as it passed the bicycle.
The bomb targeted the most vulnerable area of Herrhausen's car – the door where he was sitting – and required split-second timing to overcome the car's special armour plating. The bomb utilized a Misznay-Schardin mechanism. A copper plate, placed between the explosive and the target, was deformed and projected by the force of the explosion. The detonation resulted in a mass of copper being projected toward the car at a speed of nearly two kilometers per second, effectively penetrating the armoured Mercedes. Herrhausen's legs were severed and he bled to death.
No one has ever been charged with the murder.
The Federal Criminal Police Office (Germany) presented a chief witness Siegfried Nonne who later retracted his statements in which he claimed to have sheltered four terrorists in his home. His half-brother Hugo Föller furthermore declared that no other persons had been at the flat at the time. (Föller died shortly after this statement aged 42: pneumonia) On 1 July 1992 German television broadcast Nonne's explanations of how he was coached and threatened ("You are known to be suicidal. Somebody might lend you a hand") by the Verfassungsschutz, the German internal intelligence agency, to become the main witness. (He used to be an informant for the Verfassungsschutz. He was also released from a psychiatric clinic only four days before his original claims.)
In 2004 the federal prosecutor dropped the charges against the Red Army Faction; the investigation was to continue without naming a suspect. Certain German and US media connected the assassination of Alfred Herrhausen to the Staatssicherheitsdienst (Stasi) of the GDR.
The search of the motive for his killing strikes attention to the fact that Mr. Herrhausen strongly suggested to write off all debts owed by developing countries, a proposal he brought before the World Bank in 1987 as well as to a Bilderberg Meeting in 1988. His suggestions however were met with strong opposition, especially from U.S. bankers who were prepared to battle him on his proposal, and who also objected to internal reforms of the Deutsche Bank which he intended to implement for Germany.
From then on concern for his safety made him wear a bullet-proof vest, his Mercedes car was armor-plated and accompanied by 2 cars staffed with security guards. When the bomb went off and struck his side of the door, none of his security guards stepped out to see to his safety and aid. He died bleeding to death from having the main artery on one of his legs severed.
All of Mr. Herrhausen’s proposals for structural changes to the Deutsche Bank as well as the idea of debt relief to third-world countries were abandoned by his successor Mr. Hilmar Kopper and belittled as “not-to-be-taken-serious” expressions of Herrhausen’s ideas.
Some more facts from the German version:
Herrhausen, despite being the Chairman of the Deutsche Bank, was very concerned with the responsibility banks and their managers have for society and often warned about the growing power of banks and the financial world. He was considered an intellectual, rhetorical and business giant.
One of his most famous quotes:
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Of course we have the power. The question is not whether we have it or not, but how we use it and if we wield it in a responsible way or not.
Another one:
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One also has to want power
(Meaning that if you have power, it's because you desired it in the first place. If you don't care about power, you don't get it. It doesn't just fall into your lap.)
He stated his conviction that debt-relief for third world countries is the only way to help them, saying that "they suffer from continuous insolvency/illiquidity, which in the history of economics has never been solved by increasing the debts even more. It's not only the right thing to do from a moral/ethical point of view, but also better for the creditors in the long run.
After those remarks the chairmen of other large banks accused him of a lack of solidarity, to which he replied "The Deutsche Bank doesn't need extra lessons in solidarity, and in any case solidarity hopefully doesn't mean we should stop using our brains."
His proposal for a restructuring of Deutsche Bank, which he was supposed to present on the day of his assassination, was far ahead of its time and is the standard in today's banking world.
The other board members and chairmen of other large banks hated him. "He was an intellectual snob with the typical arrogance of a genius."
The idea of debt relief for third world countries was ahead of its time as well, and applied many years later.
There exists speculation that he intended to use this concept to strengthen the position of Deutsche Bank at the expense of major US banks. At that time their credits to poor nations were much less secured and their risk exposure much higher than those of Deutsche Bank, which in the event of widescale debt relief could have made the US banks easy pickings for a hostile takeover by Deutsche Bank.
His assassination:
The bomb exploded after the car triggered a laser trap, with the projectile created by the explosion exactly piercing the right backdoor. For example, the driver only suffered light injuries, it was that precise.
The setting up of the laser trap was disguised as road construction work. Nobody knew who authorized it, nobody knew the men working there. They disappeared without a trace.
The site was hard to overlook, but neither police nor the German equivalent of the FBI were suspicious of this suddenly appearing construction site where Herrhausen passed everyday on his commute to work. Herrhausen was officially listed as one of most threatened people in Germany at the time, under police protection and with his house under constant surveillance.
A few days before his assassination the security detail provided to him by the internal intelligence agency, usually the second front car in his motorcade, was withdrawn.
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