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Putin Angry With Britain for Not Quieting Ex-Russian Spy on Deathbed
FOX News ^ | Dec 2, 2006

Posted on 12/02/2006 7:36:44 PM PST by jdm

Russian president Vladimir Putin has expressed his anger at Britain's failure to gag Alexander Litvinenko in the final hours of his life, the cabinet has been told.

Margaret Beckett, the foreign secretary, told ministers that the Russian government had “taken exception” to the poisoned former spy’s deathbed letter accusing the Putin regime of murdering him.

This weekend a potential suspect — Andrei Lugovoi — admitted he had been contaminated with the radioactive poison polonium-210 but insisted: “I’ve been framed.”

Beckett, who spoke to her Russian counterpart before Thursday’s cabinet meeting, said the Russians had “seemingly failed to understand” that Litvinenko was under police supervision rather than in custody.

Amid signs that his death could cause a diplomatic row, Tony Blair concluded the cabinet meeting by saying “the most important issue” was likely to be Britain’s long-term relationship with Moscow.

Another minister present said: “It caused some alarm that this case is obviously causing tension with the Russians. They are too important for us to fall out with them over this.”

Putin’s aides see Litvinenko’s letter, in which he described the Russian president as “barbaric and ruthless”, as a carefully orchestrated public relations stunt, timed to coincide with the leader’s appearance at the Russia-European Union summit in Helsinki.

Foreign Office officials yesterday confirmed the Russians had raised the issue of Litvinenko’s letter with Beckett and British diplomats. Until now, the government has admitted only that the Russians had agreed to assist Scotland Yard with its inquiries.

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KEYWORDS: litvinenko; murdererputinangry; putin; putinwillskate; russia; spy
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To: jdm
Putin Angry With Britain for Not Quieting Ex-Russian Spy on Deathbed

Well, I just bet he is. Maybe old KGB tactics are hard to break.

I've begun to consider that the soul President Bush saw when he looked into Putin's eyes was perhaps a chimera.
21 posted on 12/02/2006 8:00:47 PM PST by hummingbird (All opinions spoken from my armchair and have no actual bearing on the war.)
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To: jdm

Vlad the Inhaler?


22 posted on 12/02/2006 8:01:22 PM PST by Silly (Still being... Silly)
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To: Txsleuth

Yep that disturbed me too. The Brits declared this little murder wouldn't get in the way of their important relationship with murdering Putin


23 posted on 12/02/2006 8:02:20 PM PST by cajungirl (no)
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To: roughman

I wonder how this is goiing over in Russia.


24 posted on 12/02/2006 8:03:21 PM PST by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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To: roughman

LOL


25 posted on 12/02/2006 8:04:09 PM PST by SDGOP
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To: ClaireSolt

that may be classified......LOL


26 posted on 12/02/2006 8:04:46 PM PST by no-to-illegals (God Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform, Our Heroes.)
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To: SBprone

Yep, KGB is forever. He is cold. The odd thing is why use Polonium? That is strange. Why not a gun or a knife or a disappearance. Why the red flag,,did Putin want others to know the murder was a KGB style hit?


27 posted on 12/02/2006 8:05:37 PM PST by cajungirl (no)
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To: jdm

Next time Putie use a poison that works faster. Dead men tell no tales.


28 posted on 12/02/2006 8:05:50 PM PST by 2111USMC
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To: D.P.Roberts
Poison is a coward's weapon. And now Putin's name is forever linked with it.

Poison has been the weapon of choice for political murder since at least the first written history.

Poison is silent, anonymous (can be) and invisible.

Coward-us has nothing to do with it. It is the desire to eliminate an inconvenient person with out the political fallout of doing it publicly.

29 posted on 12/02/2006 8:06:22 PM PST by Pontiac (All are worthy of freedom, none are incapable.)
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To: 4butnomorethan30characters

It wasn't as much what Blair said as "the other minister"...that said "They are too important for us to fall out with them over this"....meaning the Russians.

I am sure that Tony Blair and the Brits don't want to be seen pointing the finger at Putin...but, it is Putin's problem that he is angry with the Brits for releasing Lit's statement.

Maybe if he lived in a country with freedom to speak..and print....he would understand.

I just don't like the thought that the Brits would make excuses or "apologize" for this...they already have a problem with the Muslims.


30 posted on 12/02/2006 8:06:26 PM PST by Txsleuth (Bolton/Cheney (that would be Lynne) 08)
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To: jdm
Another minister present said: “It caused some alarm that this case is obviously causing tension with the Russians. They are too important for us to fall out with them over this.”

So the Russians (Putin) can have people potentially assisinated on British (or our) soil and everyone is to look the other way because we can't have Putin angry at us????

31 posted on 12/02/2006 8:06:39 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Txsleuth

~LOL~ I just posted a similar sentiment. That was the most chilling comment in the entire article (IMO).


32 posted on 12/02/2006 8:07:41 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: ClaireSolt

Most ruskies are either too drunk or too apathetic, plus the msm there is very careful about what they say, for obvious reasons.


33 posted on 12/02/2006 8:07:47 PM PST by roughman ( roughmen stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm (orwell))
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To: jdm

The still-civilized nations of the West are made to worry way too much about "long-term relationships" with countries like Russia, China, Iran, Pakistan, etc. etc.
If we were smart we would divest everything of ours in those countries, and insist they do the same here. We don't need them. Why do we insist on fatally complicating our lives with ANY relationship with them? Let them start drinking their own oil, or finding out what else they can do with it. Leave them to their own devices politically, economically and militarily: in a space of 3-5 years they will find their way back to us, begging to be allowed to take up a new position somewhere near the bottom of the totem pole.


34 posted on 12/02/2006 8:09:51 PM PST by supremedoctrine ("Talent hits a target no one else can hit, genius hits a target no one else can see"--Schopenhauer)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

Well getting Putin mad does have a downside! I mean you could end up hairless and glowing, writing mean letters on your deathbed.

Maybe the polonium was used for that reason. What a red flag,,it screams "crazy Russian ex KGB"


35 posted on 12/02/2006 8:10:10 PM PST by cajungirl (no)
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To: roughman
He knows how the game is played. Sort of if J. Edgar had become president - some people you just don't **** with,

Interesting that both he and President Bush are NOT from the typical profession for the head of state, isn't it? Bush is a CEO, not a lawyer; Putin is KGB, not Central Committee.
36 posted on 12/02/2006 8:12:11 PM PST by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, Deport all illegals, abolish the IRS, ATF and DEA)
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To: RedStateRocker

I meant M.B.A.


37 posted on 12/02/2006 8:12:51 PM PST by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, Deport all illegals, abolish the IRS, ATF and DEA)
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To: jdm

Never trust a Russian.


38 posted on 12/02/2006 8:14:42 PM PST by budwiesest (Fight statism, collectivism, and communitarianists. And have fun!!)
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To: cajungirl
You got that right, cajungirl....
Well, it's not like *WE* let Tiananmen Square and similar atrocities impair our economic relationship with communist China, sad to say.
39 posted on 12/02/2006 8:16:35 PM PST by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, Deport all illegals, abolish the IRS, ATF and DEA)
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To: 2111USMC
Next time Putie use a poison that works faster. Dead men tell no tales.

Yeah, it took 3 weeks or so.

40 posted on 12/02/2006 8:20:40 PM PST by jdm
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