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Type of pistol?
From this source: On page 37:
 * Raising Red Flags: An Examination of Arms & Munitions in the Ongoing Conflict in Ukraine – Jonathan Ferguson & N.R. Jenzen-Jones, ARES RESEARCH REPORT No. 3, 2014
 * ''Handguns are not in themselves significant military weapons. However, like their larger counterparts, they can tell the observer something about the user, their organisation, and lines of procurement. For example, despite the availability of Ukrainian and Russian-designed sidearms, a Ukrainian general was recently pictured with an Austrian-made Generation 3 Glock 17 pistol, chambered for 9 x 19 mm.

Page 38:
 * ''Photo 31 Former Ukrainian Defence Minister Valeriy Heletey pictured following the recapture of Slovyansk in July 2014. He is armed with a Generation 3 Glock 17 pistol in retention holster with lanyard.

-- Petri Krohn (talk) 09:02, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

UAE special forces?
A comment by User:PavewayIV on Moon of Alabama:


 * ''The build team they sent over in 2011 was mostly Aussie, including some colonel that was allowed to retired directly out of the Aussie Army to head the UAE SF. A lot of other Aussie (and western) SF types followed him over for lucrative positions as well. The UAE is tiny, so while the SF is officially under the Emirates' military command, it's mostly non-UAE mercs. The more conspiratorial among us would say it was a private western/Israeli/GCC merc army created and intended to be used initially in Libya and then in Iraq, Syria and Yemen. Other skeptics might just observe that the UAE with its tiny army hardly needs dedicated SF forces numbering in the thousands.
 * ''The UAE uses and treats their SF exactly like it's their own private merc army, spreading the weaponized Muslim Brotherhood love across the Middle East and putting the screws to Iran. Other SF-types apparently don't care much for them - they're mostly butchers (and quite intentionally so).
 * ''I quite often use the terms fake-al Nusra and fake-ISIS. The UAE SF would be perfect in that role, including the head-chopping part. They are still experienced, well-trained pros and good at their jobs, they're just homicidal psychopaths as well. Israel used them as part of the fake al-Nusra to take out Syrian air defenses and listening posts in the hills bordering the Golan. The GCC and western powers seem to frequently employ them in other operations that it can't trust to the everyday head-choppers.
 * ''It was suggested - internet rumors of course - that they had some part (rather than the Saudis) in killing and staging the victims for the (fake) East Gouta chemical weapons attack. The few accounts of direct Saudi involvement were just a red herring, although I'm sure their intelligence guys were part of the scheme. That makes sense, and these psychos are certainly capable of such inhumanity.
 * ''I certainly can't substantiate any of this with MSM citations, of course. You're not going to read about this in the NYT or hear it on ABC down under. This is SF-types gossip and the occasional observations (like yours) of, "Hey - those guys don't really look like your run-of-the-mill, Captagon-fueled jihadis." Then there's the occasional mil-types that report suspicious-looking head-choppers sporting titanium-barreled rifles (costs about as much as a truck there) running around Syria and Yemen. Add tin-foil had and you have the perfect cover for GCC/Israeli/western intelligence wet-work with plenty of plausible deniability.

I think the killer here fits the description. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 03:29, 13 November 2016 (UTC)