If I'm the President of Russia and thinking of rubbing out an enemy, do I choose a method which costs millions and which allows the movements of the various personnel involved to be traced all over London and Europe, or do I go for something simpler........like a bullet, say.....which costs $1, plus or minus a few cents and is much harder to trace?
Even if they wanted to poison this guy, there are other, far more subtle and sophisticated ways than putting an atom bomb's worth of polonium in his vodka.
What a crazy case. Either there is far more to this than we're being told, or this was planned by the Russian Keystone Cops.
They are only speculating on the price because it's possible that he used coupons.
I agree - way too messy for a hit by anyone in the Russian government - no way they've lost all their expertise.
This is something else gone wrong. Will be interesting to see just what. I guess if this guy was providing polonium-210 to terrorists to make a dirty bomb, he got his just deserts.