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Polonium 210 Found in Body of Former Russian Spy
Drudge Report.com ^ | November 24, 2006 | Drudge

Posted on 11/24/2006 7:04:42 AM PST by edpc

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To: MindBender26

FOX reporting the dose of Polonium massive!


61 posted on 11/24/2006 7:35:16 AM PST by Colonel Jim
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To: Right Wing Assault

> The guy sure looks like what I think a KGB should look like. <


Don't be naive. The KGB was shrewd enough to realize that their agents shouldn't look like the "typical" spy.

Many years ago, I was acquainted very casually with an ex-KGB agent (a defector). When I eventually learned about his infamous past, my immediate reaction was, "He sure doesn't look it." To which an elderly and wise Kremlinologist friend replied, "Of course not!"


62 posted on 11/24/2006 7:38:15 AM PST by Hawthorn
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To: spanalot

The US Congress published over 800 pages of documentation on Russias murder of 10 million over 20 years ago and the Kremlin still denies that too!==

In 1930th Russia didn't exist. The famine in Ukraine was exercised by members of Ukranian communist party under leadership of georgian Stalin. What non existent Russia has to do with that?


63 posted on 11/24/2006 7:38:37 AM PST by RusIvan ("THINK!" the motto of IBM)
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To: Colonel Jim
FOX reporting the dose of Polonium massive!

That being the case, I wonder why it was not identified sooner.

64 posted on 11/24/2006 7:38:59 AM PST by Churchillspirit (We are all foot soldiers in this War On Terror.)
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To: Wormwood
I looked into Pootie Poot's soul, and saw nothing. Nothing at all.

Then you didn't look very hard. You should have seen the soul of Josef Stalin. Ask Trotsky, the guy over there with the ice pick in his brain.

65 posted on 11/24/2006 7:39:07 AM PST by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Republicam)
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To: cricket

The case you are talking about was elected as leader of one of the republics that split off from the USSR. I think he had an American wife, but I can't remember his name.


66 posted on 11/24/2006 7:40:02 AM PST by hoosierpearl (To God be the glory.)
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To: Right Wing Assault; jdm

Oh - I thought it was a lack of adequate coffee intake on my part.


67 posted on 11/24/2006 7:40:04 AM PST by SuzyQue (Remember to think.)
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To: Caesar Soze

Speaking of which, who handles that for the Russians these days, outside of Russia? SVR, FSB, or GRU? Mafiya? Someone else?==

Oligarkhs like Berezovskii. Accually Litvinenko is his minion.


68 posted on 11/24/2006 7:40:31 AM PST by RusIvan ("THINK!" the motto of IBM)
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To: edpc

This is all very James Bondish, isn't it?

Poor spy, at least he went quickly. I'm curious as to how this was discovered? In autopsy, did he start glowing when the fluoroscope was passed over his body?


69 posted on 11/24/2006 7:41:07 AM PST by pillut48 (CJ in TX (Bible Thumper and Proud!))
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To: cricket

His name was Yushchenko, from the Ukraine. The one who was poisoned by dioxin.


70 posted on 11/24/2006 7:41:37 AM PST by hoosierpearl (To God be the glory.)
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To: Hawthorn

I'm not being naive about it. I didn't say all KGB agents look like KGB agents. I said THIS guy in the photo looks like what I think a KBG agent should look like. The fact that his hair is gone and he is dying might change his looks. If I were casting a typically obvious KGB agent for a movie, this is the look I would go for. If I were the KGB, of course I wouldn't want the obvious look.


71 posted on 11/24/2006 7:42:18 AM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: nuconvert
One of many:

http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/feeds/ap/2006/11/24/ap3201737.html

72 posted on 11/24/2006 7:42:37 AM PST by Ladysmith ((NRA, SAS) "If God is not, everything is permitted." Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
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To: Colonel Jim
Polonium is a highly radioactive and toxic element and is dangerous to handle. Even in milligram or microgram amounts, handling polonium-210 is very dangerous and requires special equipment used with strict procedures. Direct damage occurs from energy absorption into tissues from alpha particles.

This isotope of polonium is an alpha emitter that has a half-life of 138.39 days. A milligram of polonium-210 emits as many alpha particles as 5 grams of radium.

The maximum allowable body burden for ingested polonium is only 1100 becquerels (0.03 microcurie), which is equivalent to a particle weighing only 6.8 × 10-12 gram. Weight for weight polonium is approximately 2.5 × 1011 times as toxic as hydrocyanic acid. The maximum permissible concentration for airborne soluble polonium compounds is about 7,500 Bq/m3 (2 × 10-11 µCi/cm3).

Bad stuff. Not to be mixed with Dom Peringion at lunch.
73 posted on 11/24/2006 7:42:39 AM PST by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry....)
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To: Cincinatus

President Bush gets incorrectly criticized for alot. His eyes gazing into the window of Putin's soul though is pretty bad though. My goodness Putin is a thug.


74 posted on 11/24/2006 7:43:23 AM PST by dogbyte12
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To: nuconvert

I'll repost it separately


75 posted on 11/24/2006 7:43:53 AM PST by quesney
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To: hoosierpearl; cricket

It was Yuschenko. I probably butchered the spelling of his name. ;)


76 posted on 11/24/2006 7:43:57 AM PST by TNdandelion
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To: MindBender26

Yes indeed!


77 posted on 11/24/2006 7:44:25 AM PST by Colonel Jim
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To: cricket

Pictures of Yushchenko here:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1393172,00.html

Plus a story of the poisoning.


78 posted on 11/24/2006 7:44:28 AM PST by hoosierpearl (To God be the glory.)
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To: Petronski
How does one hope to deliver such a poison without being poisoned?
It is an alpha emitter—that means it is perfectly harmless unless you inhale or ingest it. In the Wikipedia article on alpha decay it says:
Alpha particles emitted by radioactive nuclei are among the most hazardous forms of radiation, if these nuclei are incorporated within a human body. As any heavy charged particle, alpha particles lose their energy within a very short distance in dense media, causing significant damage to surrounding biomolecules. On the other hand, external alpha irradiation is not harmful because alpha particles are completely absorbed by a very thin (micrometers) dead layer of skin as well as by a few centimeters of air. However, if a substance radiating alpha particles is ingested or inhaled by (or injected into) an organism it may become a risk, potentially inflicting very serious damage to the organisms' genetic makeup.

79 posted on 11/24/2006 7:44:48 AM PST by cartan
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To: quesney
An elequent testimony; and challenge. . .will the MSM herald his words? Not likely. . . More importantly; will our Leadership heed the embedded warning here that Mr. Litivenenko speaks to?

You have shown yourself to have no respect for life, liberty or any civilized value. You have shown yourself to be unworthy of your office, to be unworthy of the trust of civilized men and women. You may succeed in silencing one man but the howl of protest from around the world will reverberate, Mr. Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life.

We can hope. . .

80 posted on 11/24/2006 7:44:56 AM PST by cricket (Live Liberal free. . .or suffer their consequences. . .SAVE THE TERRORISTS! JOIN THE DEMOCRATS. . .)
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