Posted on 12/03/2006 8:23:13 PM PST by Jacob Kell
LONDON – Reports that KGB defector Alexander Litvinenko converted to Islam before his mysterious poisoning with radioactive polonium 210 is raising suspicions that he may have been involved in a plot to smuggle the deadly substance to terrorist groups willing to pay millions even for a gram, Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin is reporting today.
Scotland Yard detectives are now trying to discover if Litvinenko had any secret links with Islamic extremist terror groups, the London Sunday Express is reporting.
Their biggest fear, the paper reports, is that Litvinenko, who died of polonium-210 poisoning in a London hospital, may have been helping al-Qaida or other extremist groups get hold of radioactive material to be used in a devastating "dirty" atom bomb.
Britain's secret intelligence service MI6 had earlier learned that al-Qaida was prepared to pay $3 million a gram for polonium 210, G2 Bulletin reported last week.
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Heard this mentioned twice now. Let's get some press confirmation.
World Net Daily?
No, absolutely zero percent chance Litvenenko converted to Islam. His statements including from the deathbed were either entirely truthful or those of a Russian with an axe to grind. Case closed.
Well...if it's true that he was going to sell this stuff, then he deserves to be 6 feet under and rotting.
No. His family is planning a Russian orthodox funeral. One friend (a Muslim) said he asked him to read the koran to him before he died. That is the total "evidence" of a conversion.
Bravo Sierra.
I wonder how a buyer would determine if he was getting all that he was paying for?
"The Daily Telegraph has been told that Mr Litvinenko had converted to Islam.
"Akhmed Zakayev, the leading Chechen dissident who lived next door to Mr Litvinenko, said: "He was read to from the Koran the day before he died and had told his wife and family that he wanted to be buried in accordance with Muslim tradition."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=L22MWFLCQG2OLQFIQMGSFFWAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2006/12/02/npoison02.xml
I had been wondering why in the world if the Russians wanted to kill this guy, why do in a so public way that leads back to them?...
There are far easer ways to kill one man quietly, and the Russians aren't so stupid to pin the killing on themselves unless they where making a public statement...and politically it didn't seem this was the time and place for such a public statement....It doesn't compute
For several days I have been down on Russia for offing this guy. Now, maybe not so much.
The Express is a tabloid that,like World Net Daily, leans toward sensationalism. Just because Litvinenko was attracted to Islam doesn't mean he was an Islamic terrorist.
Ridiculous.
There are far easer ways to kill one man quietlyKnife. Garrote. .22 with a silencer.
Yup.
World Nut Daily is going to keep working this dirty bomb/suitcase nuke story even if they have to set one off themselves.
The Polonium was not supposed to be discovered. The Police and Scotland Yard lacked the ability to accurately identify the alpha emitting Polonium as the poison. Atomic Weapons Scientists identified it and they had to develop new procedures for separating the Polonium from organics. If the Polonium had not been discovered, the best you could do was just speculate what might have happened. For example that is what this above article is doing, pure speculation.
Polonium is useful for constructing a real nuclear bomb, however. A small capsule containing Polonium and Berylium in close proximity is placed at the center of the Plutonium core. When the shaped HDX charges surrounding the core are detonated simultaneously, the shock wave compresses the core to a critical mass, and the Polonium is pressed up against the Berylium. The alpha particles from the Polonium dislodge neutrons from the Berylium, ensuring that the chain reaction gets started properly.
Modern bombs use other types of neutron sources. The short half life of Polonium creates too much of a maintenance headache.
"...Polonium is useful for constructing a real nuclear bomb, however. A small capsule containing Polonium and Berylium in close proximity is placed at the center of the Plutonium core. When the shaped HDX charges surrounding the core are detonated simultaneously, the shock wave compresses the core to a critical mass, and the Polonium is pressed up against the Berylium. The alpha particles from the Polonium dislodge neutrons from the Berylium, ensuring that the chain reaction gets started properly....Modern bombs use other types of neutron sources. The short half life of Polonium creates too much of a maintenance headache..."
Is Cynwoody "the man who knew too much"?
Attracted to Islam, and packing polonium -210. Yep. Surely sounds like a peace loving Muslim to me.
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