Russians 'set up hit squad to kill London dissidents' - LIVE THREAD

The Evening Standard ^ | December 1, 2006 | Staff

[GarySpFc]

Zakaev is the Chechen, both Litwinenko and Zakaev worked for Berezovsky.

[RDTF]

Hey Ivan, want to start a live thread on this?

[sissyjane]

Turn this into the live thread. Then all the info will be in one place. Just a thought.

[MadIvan]

Admin - what do you think, should this be the live thread on developments on Litvinenko?

[Schweinhund]

I think it's pretty sure that they would have inspected his corpse until they found the substance which was responsible.

[Paleo Conservative]

You would expect the wife would become ill.....why I can't understand they didn't have the family in protective suits to protect them from the PO-210 is a mystery ..

Because they didn't know what poison was used till a urine sample taken not long before he died tested positive for Po²¹⁰. Considering how much polonium was in his body, I wouldn't be surprised if she got contaminated just by kissing him.

[sissyjane]

Litvinenko's wife not ill. Radiation just on her clothing.

[Dog]

Ivan I found this snip in a Daily Mail article..

The story took on a new twist today when the Health Protection Agency confirmed that one more person has tested positive for polonium poisoning.

An HPA spokesman said the quantity of Polonium 210 in the unnamed person's body were "likely to be of concern for their immediate health".

Someone has been poisoned enough to die.

[sissyjane]

FOX just reported that it's the Italian, and that he is in immediate danger.

Sounds like he's on the way out as well, doesn't it?

[Dog]

Yup.

[sissyjane]

From Reuters--


>Litvinenko family member also exposed to polonium
Fri Dec 1, 2006 7:32 PM GMT
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LONDON (Reuters) - A female adult relative of poisoned Russian Alexander Litvinenko has been exposed to radioactive polonium 210 but is not in any short-term danger, officials said on Friday.

Home Secretary John Reid told Sky News: "It is a fraction of the lethal dose that Mr Litvinenko himself had."

A spokeswoman for the Health Protection Agency said the isotope had shown up in a urine test.

"The levels are not significant enough to result in any illness in the short term, and the results are reassuring in that any increased risk in the long term is likely to be very small," she said, adding that the woman was not in hospital.



Litvinenko, a former Russian spy who became an outspoken Kremlin critic, was poisoned by polonium and died last week.<<

[Dog]

Is this near you? They are looking for PO-210 here also..

Officers went to the Ashdown Park Hotel and Country Park in Wych Cross, near Forest Row, East Sussex to "assist in minimising the risk to the public", a spokesman for Sussex Police said.

The hotel is set in 186 acres of landscaped countryside in the heart of the Ashdown Forest.

[MadIvan]

It's a little under 50 miles from my present location.

Regards, Ivan

[Dog]

Ivan it's in Wych Cross....is that near the entrance to the Chunnel?

[MadIvan]

No, it's not.

Regards, Ivan

[Dog]

There goes that theory...:-)

[Eurotwit]

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