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| Reports: Todashev unarmed when killed by FBI - USA TODAY Posted: 30 May 2013 09:06 AM PDT A Florida man with ties to Boston bombing suspect Tamarlan Tsarnaev was unarmed when he was shot to death last week while being questioned by an FBI agent, according to media reports quoting FBI and law enforcement sources. Initially, at least one law enforcement official told USA TODAY that Ibragim Todashev, a 27-year-old ethnic Chechen, was armed with a knife or other sharp object when he violently attacked an FBI agent during questioning in Orlando. WESH-TV reported Thursday that unidentified FBI sources now say that Todashev was unarmed. The Orlando NBC affiliate quotes sources as saying a sword was inside the apartment, but that the weapon was moved to the corner of the room before questioning began. The sources said, according to WESH, that when Todashev lunged, the FBI agent opened fired because he believed that Todashev could have possibly been going for his gun or the sword in the room. The unidentified sources tell WESH that Todashev might have been lunging toward a sword, but he was not in possession of it. The Washington Post quoted one law enforcement official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the investigation, said Wednesday that Todashev overturned a table but did not have a gun or a knife. A second official also said Todashev was unarmed, the Post reported. An advocacy group is demanding a civil rights investigation into the death of a Chechen immigrant who was shot to death by authorities in central Florida while being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects. (May 30) An official, the newspaper reported, said that according to one account of the shooting, the other law enforcement officials had just stepped out of the room, leaving the FBI agent alone with Todashev, when the confrontation occurred. The Florida branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations has called for a federal civil rights investigation into Todashev's death. "We have confirmed through senior sources within the FBI that Ibragim was indeed unarmed when he was shot seven times in the head, what appear to be even in the back of the head," said Hassan Shibly, executive director of the CAIR Florida. "That's very disturbing." Later, according to the Orlando Sentinel reported, Shibly told reporters that CAIR has an "intermediary" who said the FBI told him Todashev was unarmed. Shibly did not identify the intermediary. Shibly, speaking to reporters in Orlando on Wednesday, said the group was calling for the independent investigation "to make sure excessive force was not used against this unarmed individual." The FBI has been tight-lipped in its public statements on the case. At the time of the shooting, the FBI said that an agent, along with two Massachusetts State Police troopers and other law enforcement personnel, were interviewing "an individual" in connection with the Boston bombing case when "violent confrontation was initiated by the individual." Two law enforcement officials have also told USA TODAY that Todashev was being questioned about the unsolved 2011 murders of three men in Waltham, Mass. ABC News reported last week that Todashev was about to sign a confession to the killings when he became violent. Todashev has not been directly implicated in the April 15 Boston Marathon bombings that killed three people and injured more than 260. The FBI has said only that Todashev, a martial arts enthusiast like Tsarnaev, knew the bombings suspect when he lived in Boston. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 27, and his brother, Dzhokhar, 19, were both named as suspects in the bombings. Tamerlan died three days after the April 15 bombings during a shootout with police that also left Dzhokhar injured. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was later captured and charged in connection with the bombings. He is being held at a prison medical center near Boston. |
| David Petraeus named chair of private-equity firm KKR's research arm - Newsday Posted: 30 May 2013 07:28 AM PDT Photo credit: AP | Retired Army general and then-CIA Director David Petraeus testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. is appointing Petraeus as chairman of its newly created KKR Global Institute, the investment firm said Thursday. (Feb. 2, 2012) David Petraeus, whose 14-month tenure as CIA director was cut short when an extramarital affair became public in November, has been hired by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., the private equity firm announced Thursday. The retired four-star general will become chairman of the newly created KKR Global Institute, which will function as a research arm of the New York City firm and will analyze investments in the areas of public policy and regulatory, macroeconomic and technology trends, the company said. "As the world changes and we expand how and where we invest, we are always looking to sharpen the KKR edge," Henry Kravis, co-founder and co-CEO of KKR, said in a statement. VIDEO: Petraeus testifies on Libya | Petraeus: CIA blamed terrorists for Libya attack | Name of FBI agent in Petraeus scandal revealed In the news release, Petraeus said he was happy to become "part of a new initiative to provide additional insights to KKR's clients and companies." Petraeus, a Cornwall-on-Hudson native and West Point graduate, also will help the firm evaluate the risks in investing in "new geographies," the company said. In April, Petraeus accepted a one-year appointment as visiting professor of public policy at City University of New York's Macaulay Honors College in Queens. Petraeus, who commanded U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, chronicled his career in "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus," a biography written with Paula Broadwell. After he was appointed the nation's top spy, disclosures of his affair with Broadwell forced his resignation. Besides a bachelor's degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Petraeus also has master's and doctorate degrees from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. KKR, which has been around for 37 years, manages assets of more than $78.3 billion. The firm has been a leader in leveraged buyouts, in which it borrows money to acquire companies it considers undervalued and then seeks to make a profit through strategies like changing management, trimming the workforce and selling off pieces of the firm. KKR's 1989 leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco, was chronicled in "Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco," a book that was made into a television movie. Be the first to rate: Click to rate |
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