Ross Hartinger: The Armenian Connection?   
     
    
   
   
    
     By Robert Bodrog-Goodland 
     
    
   
   
    
     It happened last Tuesday 
     
     morning, just before 8 a.m. 
     
     Three armed terrorist storm- 
     
     ed the Turkish embassy in 
     
     downtown Ottawa, killing a 
     
     lone security guard, and be- 
     
     ginning what was to be a 
     
     four-hour ordeal for police 
     
     and five hostages. The gun- 
     
     men finally surrendered, 
     
     realizing the futility of the 
     
     situation. Their target — the 
     
     Turkish ambassador man- 
     
     aged to escape during the 
     
     initial seige and found shelter 
     
     out of the line of gunfire. 
     
    

    
     But the story gees deeper 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     than that. In August 1982, 
     
     Armenian terrorists assasi- 
     
     nated the Turkish militarv 
     
     attache in his car —- again 
     
     in Ottawa. That August, 
     
     Ross Hartinger, noted sports 
     
     writer and columnist for the 
     
     Gem was in Ontario, alleged 
     
     to be on “vacation”, and was 
     
     actually in Ottawa on the 
     
     very day the assassination 
     
     occurred. 
     
    

    
     1983 and 1984 were dor- 
     
     mant years for the Armenians 
     
     in Canada, and it wasn’t until 
     
     last Tuesday’s resurgence 
     
     that they were heard from 
     
     again. ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     The suspect. (Photo: Bodrog-Goodland) 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Ironically enough, at the 
     
     very moment the seizure was 
     
     taking place, Hartinger was 
     
     flying home on a 737 from 
     
     the capital, after supposedly 
     
     covering the AUAA finals for 
     
    
   
   
    
     the Gem and CIMN. This 
     
     was also Ross’s first trip to 
     
     Ottawa since the August inci- 
     
     dent in 82. 
     
    

    
     Mere coincidence? 
     
    

    
     I think not. 
     
    

    
     After an extensive investi- 
     
     gation involving a complex 
     
     network of sources and in- 
     
     formants, I managed to 
     
     obtain the negatives of startl- 
     
     ing photographs which docu- 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ment the planning of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     embassy operation, code 
     
     named: OPERATION BLACK 
     
     BIRD. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The photos clearly show 
     
     our own Roscoe working out 
     
     the final phases of the plan, 
     
     right down to the minutest 
     
     detail. This clearly indicates 
     
     that Hartinger is not, a 
     
     native Islander as'he says but 
     
    
   
   
    
     - rather a full-fledged Armen- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ian terrorist, probably trained 
     
     somewhere in the Middle 
     
     East by the KGB. 
     
    

    
     The photos were imme- 
     
     diately turned over to the 
     
     RCMP, who issued a Canada 
     
     -wide warrant for Hartinger’s 
     
     arrest for questioning in con- 
     
     nection with the Ottawa inci- 
     
     dent. .' 
     
     But as this goes to print, 
     
     no one has seen or heard 
     
     from Hartinger since last 
     
     Tuesday evening, around the 
     
     time the Warrant was issued. 
     
    

    
     What does all this mean? 
     
     Is Ross the Armenian con- 
     
     nection? And if so, why is he 
     
     using Prince Edward Island 
     
     as a base? There are still a 
     
     multitude of questions which 
     
     remain unanswered, but once 
     
     fact is clearly evident: You 
     
     never really know your c'o- 
     
     workers, do you? 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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