[MadIvan]

What a surprise.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[theFIRMbss]

>A secret assassination squad was set up to poison former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, it was claimed today

If they wanted to
keep the whole thing secret then
why not just hit him

with a car?! People
get run over all the time . . .
Why use fairy dust?!

[GarySpFc]

Yes, and I just received the following:

"Brits are reporting traces of Polonium in Zakaev's car."

[RDTF]

Fox just announced a family member has tested positive, also a hotel evacuated. So much constant breaking info on this, we need a live thread!

[shezza]

So much for Trepashkin. Hope he has his own affairs in order.

[jjm2111]

"The letters were apparently written in jail by Mikhail Trepashkin, a former Russian intelligence officer. "

Hope this guy has his will written. Good job evening standard. I hope the editor knows he has blood on his hands.

[sissyjane]

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

[eyespysomething]

Well, D'UH Jose!!


EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso voiced concern about the case. "We have a problem with Russia. In fact, we have several problems. Too many people have been killed and we don't know who killed them," he said on Thursday.

link: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/12/2/worldupdates/2006-12-01T224400Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_-278627-4&sec=Worldupdates

[Sword_Svalbardt]

Like, we are supposed to be surprised? Communism is alive and well in Russia, home of the bolsheviks.

[SaltyJoe]

So, to speculate on future defections of Russians with knowledge of or witnesses to crimes: you're not safe in England.

Would someone in British intelligence sell them out? Would it be for money or ideas? Was the dead ex-Russian spy sloppy or too homesick for friends that revealed his location perhaps?

[eleni121]

Problem is that Trepashkin and Berezhovksy are criminals themselves.

[BiffBonko]

The should be a big wakeup call to everyone in the west who has been rambling about how we won the Cold War for the past decade. Nobody told the Russians that they lost, or that they are no longer a major world power.

[The_Englishman]

Yet another example of Eastern Europeans doing jobs that British assassins won't do. And at half the price probably.