MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Malta car bomb kills Panama Papers journalist
By artappraiser on Tue, 10/17/2017 - 3:28am |Daphne Caruana Galizia, a blogger whose investigations focused on corruption, was described as a ‘one-woman WikiLeaks’
By Juliette Garside @ TheGuardian.com, Oct. 16
The journalist who led the Panama Papers investigation into corruption in Malta was killed on Monday in a car bomb near her home.
Daphne Caruana Galizia died on Monday afternoon when her car, a Peugeot 108, was destroyed by a powerful explosive device which blew the vehicle into several pieces and threw the debris into a nearby field.
A blogger whose posts often attracted more readers than the combined circulation of the country’s newspapers, Caruana Galizia was recently described by the Politico website as a “one-woman WikiLeaks”. Her blogs were a thorn in the side of both the establishment and underworld figures that hold sway in Europe’s smallest member state [....]
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/malta-car-bomb-kills-panama-papers-journalist
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