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 ...
And the Brits are our allies.
"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
Putin is the culprit, he should be shunned by civilized people everywhere as a murderer.
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Thanks fifi- great article!
bttt
You're welcome. It is the best piece yet on the case.
Thanks. I am sorry I missed this earlier post of the article.
It's going to be a Muslim ceremony.
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."
Certainly no more Texas BBQ for him.
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...
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/
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 couldnt give up the game, a Russian security source said. Technically, they are all retired. But most people see them as an extension of Putins secret service.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2484254,00.html
3."Curse of the Moscow bombs
Many like Litvinenko who probed Putins 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 Kremlins 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
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