Litvinenko: A deadly trail of polonium [poisoned by Putin?...case now concluding]

BBC - Magazine ^ | July 28, 2015

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"The polonium trail started on 16 October 2006 when Litvinenko met Lugovoi and Kovtun in London. ..."

"When Lugovoi and Kovtun's movements were mapped against the sites of polonium contamination, there was an exact match. The evidence of guilt was strong. In May 2007, the then Director of Public Prosecutions Ken Macdonald announced that Andrei Lugovoi was to be charged with murder and his extradition would be sought from Russia. Kovtun was charged in 2010. ..."

Prof Norman Dombey, a physicist who has a deep knowledge of Russian nuclear sites, gave evidence at the public inquiry.

Dombey says there is only one place where it can be produced in the quantities used in the murder - a military nuclear reactor at the Avangard plant in the closed city of Sarov. Sarov was where Russia produced its first nuclear bomb in the days of Joseph Stalin. This is a clear link to the Russian state.

But why would the Russian state want him dead? ..."

It is clear that Alexander Litvinenko had powerful enemies in Russia. ..."

The first red line concerns a book he co-wrote called Blowing Up Russia about a terrorist attack in Moscow in September 1999. Chechen separatists were blamed.

"Litvinenko claimed that Russia's own security services carried out the attack to give Putin the cover to launch a new Chechen war. Some 300 people had died. ..."

His co-author, Felshtinsky, stands by their conclusions and says: "This [attack] helped Putin...the reaction of the population was we now have to have a strong leader. ..."

The inquiry will now hear secret evidence from intelligence agencies in special closed sessions. It will report back at the end of the year and, until then, the mystery will rumble on."

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I needed to do a lot of snipping in order to squeeze the important bits of this long detailed article into an excerpt.

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Blowing Up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB [Power]
Alexander Litvinenko & Yuri Felshtinsky

This book, co-authored by Alexander Litvinenko, the victim of the notorious 2006 London polonium poisoning, attempts to demonstrate that modern Russia's most fundamental problems do not result from the radical reforms of the liberal period of Yeltsin's terms as president, but from the open or clandestine resistance offered to these reforms by the Russian special services. It was they who unleashed the first and second Chechen wars, in order to divert Russia away from the path of democracy and towards dictatorship, militarism, and chauvinism.

The authors alleged that the Russian apartment bombings and other September 1999 terrorist acts were committed by the Federal Security Service. Litvinenko and Felshtinsky wrote that the bombings were a false flag operation intended to justify Second Chechen War and bring Vladimir Putin to power.

Originally published in 2002
(223 pages)

http://www.libertypublishinghouse.com/Blowing_up_Russia_E.aspx
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Also available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and most other book sellers

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Putin's Poison?
by Peter Brookes, November 27, 2006

The death of former Russian spy, Alexander Litvinenko, last week from radioactive Polonium-210 poisoning is the latest in a series of politically motivated attacks on the outspoken opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed112706a.cfm

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Symposium: To Kill a Russian Journalist
By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | November 17, 2006

The murder of internationally renowned Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya in early October 2006 was yet another troubling sign of Russia’s retreat into its totalitarian past. Today Frontpage Symposium has gathered a distinguished panel of experts to discuss why Anna Politkovskaya was killed and what the tragic loss of her life symbolizes about the direction in which Vladimir Putin’s Russia is heading.

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=1490
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'PUTIN'S RUSSIA' by Anna Politkovskaya:
http://www.amazon.com/PUTINS-RUSSIA-ANNA-POLITKOVSKAYA/dp/1843430509
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List of journalists killed in Russia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia#A_list_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia

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Yushchenko: Russia blocking poisoning probe
By Bonnie Malkin and agencies, September 12, 2007

Mr Yushchenko before and after the poisoning

"Mr Yushchenko, a pro-European politician who wanted to bring his country [The Ukraine] out of Russia's shadow, fell seriously ill on September 6, 2004 as he was competing in presidential elections against a pro-Moscow candidate, Viktor Yanukovich, now prime minister.

After months of tests in an Austrian clinic, it was determined that he had ingested a massive amount of the poison dioxin.

Although he survived, his face was left bloated and pockmarked, and he has had to undergo regular treatment to rid his body of the toxin.

In an interview with Le Figaro he said he believed the dioxin used to disfigure him was made in a Russian lab.

Mr Yushchenko did not directly accuse the Russian government of being behind his poisoning, but he did say he had 'practically put all the pieces together' and the attempt against him 'was not a private action'. ..."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1562838/Yushchenko-Russia-blocking-poisoning-probe.html

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BBC, 27 July 2015

Litvinenko inquiry: Key suspect 'cannot testify'

“UK officials believe Dmitry Kovtun and another man, Andrei Lugovoi, poisoned Mr Litvinenko in 2006, which they deny.

Mr Kovtun had been due to appear by videolink from Moscow on Monday, but said he had been unable to get permission from Russian authorities.

Mr Litvinenko’s family lawyer said it seemed the case was being manipulated.”

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33674469

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Before anyone paints Litvinenko as a hero, it should be pointed out that he was a pro-Chechen propagandist and a convert to islam.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

The Russkies love their ‘accidents’ and their poisons.

[MrEdd]

Sure.

The Chechen wars had nothing to do with Mohammedans attacking infidels. Those poor misunderstood Muslims.

[dfwgator]

Before anyone paints Litvinenko as a hero, it should be pointed out that he was a pro-Chechen propagandist and a convert to islam.

This.

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“Over the next six years, Litvinenko became an anti-Kremlin journalist, accusing the Russian government of abuses during their battles with Chechen separatists in the 1990s, and the FSB’s alleged 1999 bombing of 300 people in explosions at apartments in Russia that was used to justify its second war against Chechnya.

He also claimed two of the Chechen separatists who took hostages at a theater in Moscow in October 2002 during which 162 people died were working for the FSB. He also pointed the finger at the FSB for having trained al Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.”

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/237045/long-awaited-investigation-alexander-v-litvinenkos-arnold-ahlert

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Sure. The Chechen wars had nothing to do with Mohammedans attacking infidels. Those poor misunderstood Muslims.

Meanwhile, KGB Putin stands firmly behind the world's largest state sponsor of islamic terrorism.

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The Kremlin’s Troll Army: Moscow is financing legions of pro-Russia Internet commenters:

A June article by Max Seddon of BuzzFeed reported the Kremlin was spending millions of dollars to pay English-speaking Russians to promote President Vladimir Putin and his policies in U.S. media like Fox News broadcasting and The Huffington Post and Politico news sites. Trolls are reportedly expected to manage multiple fake accounts and post on news articles 50 times a day, often with sentiments as simplistic as “Putin makes Obama look stupid and weak!”

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/08/the-kremlins-troll-army/375932/
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Documents Show How Russia’s Troll Army Hit America:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/documents-show-how-russias-troll-army-hit-america
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“Trolls are reportedly expected to manage multiple fake accounts and post on news articles 50 times a day, often with sentiments as simplistic as “Putin makes Obama look stupid and weak!”...”

They do this only in an attempt to pull in folks from the anti-Obama crowd. A clever/sneaky way of adding credibility to their pro-Russia, pro-Putin BS. In reality, Obama is the best thing that has happened to Russia (and their world's largest state sponsor of islamic terrorism brothers in Iran) in a long time.

[Gay State Conservative]

If Vlad can shoot down a civilian airliner with 300 Innocent souls aboard why would anyone believe that he's incapable of delivering a few grams of plutonium to a dangerous enemy of the state?

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If Vlad can shoot down a civilian airliner with 300 Innocent souls aboard why would anyone believe that he's incapable of delivering a few grams of plutonium to a dangerous enemy of the state?

They may not actually believe it. They may just want others to believe it.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

The Chechen wars had nothing to do with Mohammedans attacking infidels. Those poor misunderstood Muslims.

Russian FSB were caught planting explosives on an apartment building by local people who called the police. All evidence of this was destroyed, with the local police station being broken into and robbed. The Russian government then claimed it was an 'exercise' to test the alertness of local people, and thereafter ceased talking about it altogether.

As for the Chechens, they've literally lost hundreds of thousands of people to Russian aggression, including the targeting of civilians and bombardment of cities until they were nothing but rubble.

That is why in Iran, the dissidents often say "Death to Russia!", because they understand who their true enemy is, and it's not the United States, but Iran's Russian masters.

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If Vlad can shoot down a civilian airliner with 300 Innocent souls aboard why would anyone believe that he's incapable of delivering a few grams of plutonium to a dangerous enemy of the state?

The fact that his defenders ignore the dozens of other such cases of "mysterious" deaths of opponents of Putin tell you where they are truly coming from, unless they're just ignorant and don't have a clue of his history.

[Krosan]

“The Chechen wars had nothing to do with Mohammedans attacking infidels”

I think your statement is actually correct. Dudayev’s Chechen Republic was a secular state and Chechens weren’t pious Muslims at that time. Being Muslim was an ancestry thing for them. That changed a lot later because only Islamist fighters came to their help in this war and they had their influence.

Now Chechnya is an Emirate inside Russia ruled by Kadyrov having things like polygamy and forced marriages.

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From AP via FoxNews.com...

Last Living Beslan School Attacker Sentenced to Life in Prison
May 28, 2006

VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia — AP
A southern Russian court on Friday sentenced the sole surviving Beslan school attacker to life in prison, capping a yearlong trial that survivors and victims' relatives say has left the most essential questions about the tragedy unanswered.

They demand to know just who bore the most responsibility: Nur-Pashi Kulayev and his 31 fellow militants, or the officials whose negligence or even alleged complicity allowed them to seize hundreds of children and parents on the first day of school in September 2004.

Countrywatch: Russia

"I did not go to court to become convinced of Kulayev's guilt, but to reconstruct all the circumstances of the terrorist attack and find the truth," said Aneta Gadiyeva, whose daughter was killed. "But I did not learn anything new and did not get any answers." ..."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,197093,00.html