The Estonian foreign minister has said the very same thing to Catherine Ashton as soon as he returned from the scene of the killings . According to him so has the doctor who was dealing with the dead and wounded at the scene, and who has since refused the offer of a government post. [. . .]
Here's the (folksy) doc in Q:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Bogomolets
Her expertise is skin &, by extension (substantively, not figuratively), cosmetic surgery. She is neither an emergency physician nor a pathologist. Nor is she a forensic weapons examiner, nor a handwriting expert. No-one has said she was either in Maidan or assisting the qualified pathologist in the morgue. More likely she was working her way thru a theatre list to keep the $$$$$ rolling in.
All this should be borne in mind when considering the truth-content of what seems to be a consensus between said plastic surgeon, the Estonian Foreign Minister, Paet, & an experienced administrator, Ashton:
1) same snipers (presumably means same team, not that a particular sniper necessarily murdered peeps from both sides);
2) same type of bullet (calibre?, batch?); &
3) same handwriting (on what? Other than death certificate what could this be?).
My transcript of The Gosh Moment (Paet, then the ex-chair of an NHS health authority):
"And in fact then what was quite disturbing the same Olga told that well [i.e. convincingly] all the evidence shows that people who were killed by snipers, from both sides, among policemen & people from the streets, that they were the same snipers killing people from both sides."
"Well that's . . . yer . . . that's [general indistinctness from our Lady of Upholland, the EU High Representative]"
"And then she also showed me some photos, she said that
as medical doctor, she can, you know, say that it is the same . . . same handwriting, the same type of bullets, & it's really disturbing that now the new . . . ah, new coalition that they don't want to investigate what exactly happened. So that there is now stronger & stronger understanding that behind snipers they . . . it was not Seeanikovich [sic] but it was somebody from the new coalition."
"I think
we [EU?] do want to investigate. I mean I suppose - didn't pick that up - that's interesting -
gosh."
"Yeah, so that it was in [indistinct] disturbing that
if it starts now to live its own life very powerfully it already discreditates [sic] from very beginning this new coalition."
(from 8:21 to 9:24; my emphases)
I may not be alone in being struck by Ashton's reaction to the two pieces of news: one set of snipers, & the new gov not wanting an inquiry. Her indifference was chilling, preferring to respond by emphasising, in effect, that a mere doctor & activist needs to get all real & start to effin' well act like a politician. Glad to see it's an easy transition from the new NHS ethics to those of promoting the national interest in the shark-infested oceans of foreign affairs.
But there's another possibility explaining this apparent indifference. Given that she knows this Olga I surmise this was not news to her at all. And thru repeatedly talking about it with countless others, when the perhaps Etonian Estonian raised it with her it was a case of oh-not-that-old-news-again-&-from-someone-else-who-thinks-they're-relating-a-scoop-Jesu.
