Posted on 12/01/2006 7:08:51 AM PST by standingfirm
The Alternate Theory (Excerpted)
New York Sun Editorial
December 1, 2006
“A wire arrived yesterday from Edward Jay Epstein, who rose to fame for his investigation of the murder of President Kennedy, with a question in respect of the death of Alexander Litvinenko. He is the ex-KGB agent who, in exile in England, died in a London hospital from exposure to Polonium 210. Mr. Epstein's question: "Do we really know whether or not he was murdered?"
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"What struck us about the point, aside from the fact that Mr. Epstein is one of the shrewdest analysts around, is that as he begins to sketch the case, this mystery is not merely one of those British crimes we all love to read about in Agatha Christie or Conan Doyle but a situation in real life that provides a window into why the stakes in the Middle East are so high."
http://www.nysun.com/article/44424?access=976069
A spill in the pocket is not a spill into the food. He would know enough to discard his clothes and to wash his hands before eating, and so would his "associates". Thus, for even the remaining traces of the stuff to get him, a pocket spill would have to be super-massive, with all that it implies, like a quarantined city block. There used to be "an NCO widow who whipped herself", in Gogol's play. Need I add that it was a biting joke?
Sorry, I thought you were theorizing that the deceased and others could've gotten the substance from a delivery by crop dusting. That's what I get for not having time to read the context and yet assuming I understood more than I did.
Below is some wisdom which the White House plus the West in general need to pay attention too - and act now.
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
(MCT)
The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Thursday, Nov. 30:
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It sounds like a plot from a spy thriller, but the death of a former KGB agent - recently poisoned in London - should prompt a reassessment of our relationship with Russia and the increasingly authoritarian Vladimir Putin.
The murky case bears Moscow's fingerprints. The victim, Alexander Litvinenko, was a critic of Putin. He died after ingesting a large dose of polonium 210, a substance normally used as part of the triggering device for atomic weapons.
This is the latest in a series of thuggish episodes involving critics of Putin, who has steered the post-Soviet Russian state away from democracy toward his own brand of authoritarianism.
Putin has avoided some of the hallmarks of communism, such as forced collective farms, mandated atheism and the overheated rhetoric of class warfare. But he has asserted tight control over the government and he has seized power over important parts of the economy, including the oil industry and media outlets.
Nongovernmental organizations have been marginalized. In May, Russia's last popularly elected governor was arrested. There has been a series of mysterious killings, most of which remain unsolved.
Putin's regime has signed major arms deals with Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, and Moscow is delivering advanced surface-to-air missiles to Iran to help that country protect its illicit nuclear weapons program.
Up to now, Washington and other Western governments have largely ignored the implications of all this. But at some point, we must accept the obvious - that Vladimir Putin's government is no friend of the West - and change our policy accordingly.source
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