Oranges and apples Rushdie has been attacked by a religious fanatic, "zealot" if you will, who improvised himself as executioner with a blade, over a decades old islamic fatwah from Iran. And iran is declining any responsibility lol And what's the result btw? His book sold like never before as a result... That's precisely what I was refering to by saying "counter productive" ... This however, is clearly a sohpisticated terrorist attack, with roadside bomb, on russian soil... Nobody in his right mind, is going to take that much risk to kill what was until now in the west, a nobody-conspiracy-theorist author, over a book that will still remain widely available anyways... The cons largely outweight the pros... Imagine the world of shit in which schwab would be if this was connected to him, that's outright terrorism fuckingfucks, it's not even "bordering legal", it's totally illegal, it's above murder, and on top of that you're doing it to the russian bear... You don't want to get directly involved in that sort of shit when you're schwab, you don't even want to get remotely involved in that, way too risky. There are other means to get at russia, legal ones, financial means, political means, judicial means