http://www.thepunch.com.au/art...-is-how-to-rob-a-bank/
Now that is crazy. It seemed to have been perfectly executed. Very awesome.
Now that is crazy. It seemed to have been perfectly executed. Very awesome.
Bank robbery skillz
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IMO the best way to rob a bank is a way in which you don't wind up arrested. In this respect, these guys failed hard.
The guy arrested is not even a suspect yet. Who knows if he has anything to do with the crime at all
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Not as successful, but a great read nonetheless:
The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist
The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist
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Originally posted by: Mike Gayner
Originally posted by: thecrecarc
The guy arrested is not even a suspect yet. Who knows if he has anything to do with the crime at all
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Damn unemployed Serbians. They are some bad boys, but they were operating out of their home turf and looks like they didn't get away fast enough.
Red Berets SOU
Crvene Beretke
The Frenkies - midway down the page
The Frenkies
They drive armor-plated Humvees, use the latest in Western weaponry and operate in near-total secrecy. Serbia's most elite fighting force?known as the Unit for Special Operations (JSO)?has earned a reputation of ruthlessness in ten years of war in the Balkans.
In the communist era, it was the all-powerful secret police that enforced the will of the Party. As Yugoslavia disintegrated in the early 1990s, Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic chose this same network of secret police agents to launch wars in Croatia and Bosnia.
Dejan Anastasijevic, a Serbian journalist who has written extensively on Serbia's security forces, says Milosevic's agents struggled to mold a fighting force from ragtag paramilitary gangs. "They consisted mostly of ex-prisoners who were promised reduced sentences," he says. "Formally, these organizations were voluntary and composed of people who wanted to protect Serbs from the Croatian regime. However, it was a state-sanctioned operation?behind them was the state of Serbia, specifically the secret service."
As fighting intensified, Milosevic's police agents assume closer control by creating an elite, highly-disciplined commando squad that would command paramilitary groups and oversee special operations. The unit originally had 50 to 100 men, had no real name and was well equipped with western weaponry and communications gear. "They were the all-star team," says Anastasijevic. To lead the unit, Milosevic's then spymaster Jovica Stanisic chose his most trusted agent, Franko Simatovic.
Unlike other men in his unit who had criminal histories, Simatovic was a career intelligence officer. He spoke fluent English from his days hunting American spies in Belgrade, according to police sources. Curiously, Simatovic is reportedly of Croatian ethnicity, a fact that did not seem to bother his men.
Initially, Simatovic's fighters were identified only by their Red Berets. Their ranks grew slowly, so that by the end of the Bosnian war the unit had several hundred fighters. They were closely associated with warlords like Vojislav Seselj and Zeljko Raznatovic (better known as Arkan).
It was only after the Bosnian war that Simatovic's fighters stepped out of the shadows and received an official name?the Unit for Special Operations (JSO is the Serbian acronym). But to many people, the JSO continued to be known as the "Frenkies," or "Frenki's Boys."
For individual fighters, service to Milosevic's Serbia was secondary to making money. "War is about business, about money," says one former JSO member who served in Kosovo. "That was our reason to fight. Why else take such risks." These fighters say they were given bonuses for combat operations in Kosovo in addition to a percentage of looted Albanian property.
Anastasijevic says the JSO's role was to conduct "black operations." "They were not just swat teams or special forces because Yugoslavia already had such units within the police and military. This unit was for a long time outside of any chain of command. It's highly unusual for the security service to have its own combat unit. Intelligence services are there to get information. But these people are killers. They were Milosevic's Praetorian guard."
When Albanian insurgents began pushing for Kosovo's independence from Serbia by assassinating state officials, JSO units were deployed to crush the rebellion. As fighting intensified and a conflict with NATO loomed, the JSO added at least 500 "reservists."
JSO reservists interviewed for this report said operations in Kosovo initially focused on hitting Albanian guerrilla targets and terrorizing civilian sympathizers. But as soon as Nato launched its air campaign against Serbia, JSO units were ordered to coordinate expulsions of Albanian civilians.
In mid-April, 1999, Milosevic's senior commanders also ordered JSO units to assist in an unusual operation-destroying war crimes evidence by hiding and incinerating bodies of Albanian victims. According to Serbian army and police sources, JSO units escorted deliveries of Albanian corpses to graves in Serbia proper and to the Trepca mining complex in northern Kosovo. There the bodies were burned in the blast furnace of the lead refinery.
According to police and army sources, JSO field operations in Kosovo were led by an officer named Milorad Ulemek, better known as Legija or "The Legion" (he is also known as Milorad Lukovic). Serbian fighters say Ulemek's nickname reflected an earlier career in the French Foreign Legion.
Ulemek led major operations in western Kosovo during the war, according to army and police sources. These included the May 14th attack on Cuska and two other villages in which 72 ethnic Albanians were summarily executed. A Serbian intelligence officer says Ulemek ordered the Cuska assault in a meeting with army and police commanders in Pec on May 11.
War crimes investigators say it will take a high-level defector to unravel the complex and closely held secrets of JSO operations and expose its links to Milosevic.
"They changed their names like shirts," Anastasijevic says of the JSO. "They had sets of different identity papers, they were sometimes in uniforms of different units?police, army, civilians. Most of their commanders were only known by nickname. They were never photographed."
Anastasijevic says all evidence suggests the JSO operated under the direct control of Milosovic through his top advisors, Rade Markovic and Nikola Sainovic. "This unit and Simatovic knew very well where their loyalties were. It would almost impossible to launch a large-scale operation without Milosevic's approval. He might not have known the details, but he'd have known it was going on."
Despite the JSO's fealty to Milosevic for nearly ten years, it is widely believed that Ulemek and other commanders refused to suppress a public uprising that led to Milosevic's fall from power in October, 2000.
The JSO's indirect role in helping the opposition assume power in Yugoslavia fostered relations between Ulemek and members of Yugoslavia's new leadership, according to press reports. That has led to charges by Serbian human rights groups that politicians such as Zoran Djindjic are actively collaborating with Milosevic's one-time henchmen.
Indeed, Milosevic's secret police chief, Rade Markovic, is still in office despite calls for his dismissal.
Anastasijevic says there may be moves to sack Markovic and disband the JSO after Serbia's newly-elected government takes office. "There is no reason for this unit to exist. In most countries, a unit of this kind would not be allowed to exist. ... The whole Serbian security structure has to be deconstructed and then reconstructed. I think reform is an understatement."
Yea I remember reading this, either the robber got played by the "jeweler" and his friends by them taking out their diamonds right before the heist, or he has a bunch of diamonds stashed somewhere. That and his friend that lost his cool should have been shot.
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or do it the old skool way with massive firepower and go out in a blaze of glory:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...Y8F4xE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...Y8F4xE&feature=related
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Originally posted by: BlahBlahYouToo
Originally posted by: Mike Gayner
Originally posted by: thecrecarc
The guy arrested is not even a suspect yet. Who knows if he has anything to do with the crime at all
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i can say with a good amount of certainty that these suspects were not black.
:thumbsup:
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