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Focus: Cracking the code of the nuclear assassin
timesonline ^ | Dec 3, 2006 | Richard Woods, et al

Posted on 12/02/2006 8:32:32 PM PST by the Real fifi

The nuclear poison used to kill Alexander Litvinenko has left a trail that appears to lead back to Moscow. It's a killing that could yet seriously undermine relations between Britain and Russia

(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: litvinenko; polonium; putin; ukrussia
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Best rundown yet of the Litvinenko assassination
1 posted on 12/02/2006 8:32:34 PM PST by the Real fifi
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To: the Real fifi

And the Brits are our allies.


2 posted on 12/02/2006 8:35:23 PM PST by bannie
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To: the Real fifi

"The funeral arrangements are yet to be decided, but the traditional elements of Russian Orthodox ceremony have been ruled out. The Health Protection Agency will not allow mourners to pass the body of the former spy in an open casket."

Drop him on Ahmadinejad


3 posted on 12/02/2006 9:21:17 PM PST by gas0linealley
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To: the Real fifi

Putin is the culprit, he should be shunned by civilized people everywhere as a murderer.


4 posted on 12/02/2006 9:25:45 PM PST by timer
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To: the Real fifi

Bump


5 posted on 12/02/2006 9:27:05 PM PST by zot (GWB -- the most slandered man of this decade)
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To: the Real fifi

Thanks fifi- great article!


6 posted on 12/02/2006 9:48:49 PM PST by fat city (What part of cognitive dissonance don't you understand?)
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To: the Real fifi

bttt


7 posted on 12/02/2006 9:49:44 PM PST by nopardons
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To: fat city

You're welcome. It is the best piece yet on the case.


8 posted on 12/02/2006 10:06:46 PM PST by the Real fifi
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To: the Real fifi
Earlier post with massive analysis:

Focus: Cracking the code of the nuclear assassin

9 posted on 12/02/2006 10:07:05 PM PST by jdm
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To: jdm

Thanks. I am sorry I missed this earlier post of the article.


10 posted on 12/02/2006 10:15:02 PM PST by the Real fifi
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To: gas0linealley

It's going to be a Muslim ceremony.


11 posted on 12/02/2006 10:20:54 PM PST by GarySpFc
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To: gas0linealley

On another thread I asked if there was a reason why Polonium was used if it was so expensive to produce. Surely there is a less expensive way of killing someone. I conjectured there must be another message besides "don't betray us," -- "we've got Polonium?" "We've got cash, or had cash?" But maybe this is it -- "you can't have a traditional funeral ceremony either."


12 posted on 12/02/2006 10:29:03 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: timer

Certainly no more Texas BBQ for him.


13 posted on 12/02/2006 10:40:07 PM PST by 353FMG (I never met a liberal I didn't dislike.)
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To: timer
Or better still, invite him to a big G8 summit, arrest him, try him before 12 like the garden variety killer he is, give him 10 years on appeal row, then fry his ass.
14 posted on 12/02/2006 10:58:08 PM PST by JasonC
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To: 353FMG; JasonC

The faith and patience of the saints : the Golden Rule : Putin does to others as others will do to him...President Bush tried to bring him into the light but he has obviously returned to the old ways, too bad for russia as a growing civilization...


15 posted on 12/03/2006 12:07:44 AM PST by timer
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To: the Real fifi
So were the papers created for this task and contaminated with Polonium-210 knowing they would be passed among the people they were targeting? Perhaps Litvinenko was eating with his fingers and handling the papers at the same time causing him to ingested significantly more than everyone else that came into contact with the papers.
16 posted on 12/03/2006 2:06:51 AM PST by DB
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It could be as simple as they thought it wouldn't be detected. Normal Geiger counters will not detect it.
17 posted on 12/03/2006 2:08:19 AM PST by DB
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To: scrabblehack
In fact it may have been bad luck that Litvinenko was eating when he was contaminated giving him a much larger dose than they had intended. A slow death would have likely let the trail go cold before anyone could follow it. In addition a slow death and no detectable radiation by normal means could have well gone unnoticed. Instead he got a massive dose and it killed him quickly. That quick death made everyone very suspicious in trying to figure out what it was. It is also likely that most places in the world would not have been able to determine the cause of his death. The other people may have gotten the dose the assassin(s) intended for a slow quiet death.
18 posted on 12/03/2006 2:14:52 AM PST by DB
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I think the doc may have been the source of Scaramella's polonium but not Litvinenko's..there's a big debate going on here..where the blogger has a different view which I disagree with, but the debate with cites is lively. http://www.strata-sphere.com/blog/


19 posted on 12/03/2006 7:29:11 AM PST by the Real fifi
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Three good new pieces in the Times (UK):
1." FORMER bodyguard to President Vladimir Putin was murdered with a poison that produced symptoms remarkably similar to those of Alexander Litvinenko it emerged yesterday, writes Jonathan Calvert.
Roman Tsepov died aged 42 in 2004 after suffering severe radiation sickness brought on by a mystery substance he had ingested with food or drink.



The case suggests that use of radioactive poisons — similar to the polonium-210 that killed Litvinenko — may be more widespread than previously thought.

The nature of the poison is still a subject of speculation. Some reports in Russia say he was given a huge dose of a drug normally used to combat leukaemia and other cancers. "http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2484298,00.html


2."Trained killers of the old school


ON the day Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned, the Italian defence consultant Mario Scaramella handed him documents that named a private Russian security agency called Dignity and Honour as a possible threat to his life, writes John Follain.
At first sight, the Moscow-based organisation apparently has all the credentials for committing skulduggery.



Headed by Colonel Valentin Velichko, a former KGB officer, it offers for hire ex-KGB spies including Spetsnaz-trained killers and experts in placing listening devices.

It boasts close links to the FSB (the Federal Security Service, the former KGB), and the Foreign Intelligence Service (the Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki, or SVR). President Vladimir Putin is said to be an admirer.

“They are old-fashioned spies who couldn’t give up the game,” a Russian security source said. “Technically, they are all retired. But most people see them as an extension of Putin’s secret service.”


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2484254,00.html
3."Curse of the Moscow bombs
Many like Litvinenko who probed Putin’s war on Chechnya are dead, writes Mark Franchetti in Moscow


The series of bomb attacks on apartment blocks in September 1999 claimed 300 lives and brought terror to the streets of Moscow and two other Russian cities.
Unknown terrorists had rented accommodation on the ground floor of the apartment blocks and filled them with explosives which destroyed the buildings.



Hundreds of dead and injured were plucked from the rubble as the attacks continued over many days and more than 30,000 buildings were searched in Moscow as panic took hold.

The Kremlin pointed the finger at rebels in the breakaway republic of Chechnya. It used the blasts to justify a new wave of “anti-terrorist” operations and, a few weeks later, troops were sent back into Chechnya for a second time.

But doubts have persisted about the Kremlin’s official version of events. Sceptics have argued that Chechen rebels had nothing to gain from planting the bombs. The Chechens had won the first war in 1996 and had already gained de facto independence.

The new war, however, benefited one man: Vladimir Putin, now Russian president. At the time he had only recently been appointed prime minister and was a little known figure among the Russian electorate"


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2484252,00.html


20 posted on 12/03/2006 10:22:43 AM PST by the Real fifi
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