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After Long Legal Fight, Inquest Is Set to Begin in Death of Putin Critic
NYT ^ | 24 Jan 15 | Alan Cowell

Posted on 01/25/2015 12:51:07 AM PST by elhombrelibre

LONDON — It has consumed more than eight years of maneuvering, obstruction and a widow’s dogged legal campaign, fought often on a shoestring. But finally, on Tuesday, a public inquiry is set to begin its quest for an answer to the question that has driven the whole process: Why did Alexander V. Litvinenko have to die?

On Nov. 1, 2006, Mr. Litvinenko, a former officer of the Soviet K.G.B. in self-exile in London and a vocal critic of President Vladimir V. Putin, sipped tea from a poisoned pot, took sick and died 22 days later. Only after his death did British scientists confirm that the poison was Polonium 210, a rare isotope manufactured mostly in Russia.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Russia; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alexanderlitvinenko; andreylugovoy; crimea; dioxin; dmitrykovtun; donetsk; litvinenko; poison; poisoned; polonium210; putin; russia; semionmogilevich; ukraine; unitedkingdom; waronterror; yushchenko
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To: elhombrelibre

Well that’s an odd religion to embrace under such circumstances.


21 posted on 01/25/2015 5:06:30 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: SauronOfMordor

It is obvious that the Russians were trying to make a statement. Almost any other method might have left questions about its origins. This message was that the Russian state killed this guy and they wanted it slow and painful. They also didn’t care if anybody else was cross contaminated in the process.


22 posted on 01/25/2015 5:23:16 AM PST by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: USNBandit

Oh yeah, let’s hit the reset button.


23 posted on 01/25/2015 5:23:46 AM PST by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: IMR 4350
Reminds me more of the dioxin poisoning of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko


24 posted on 01/25/2015 6:05:56 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Covenantor
Actually it was available over the counter at high end audio equipment stores in the 60’s and 70’s.

Static-Master anti-static anti-dust brushes contained minute quantities of polonium 210 and were used to brush off vinyl record albums.

I probably have one or two of my late dad’s of that era stored with his hi-fi accessories.

Still available on the internet. Unfortunately your stash is no more, half life of 138 days.

25 posted on 01/25/2015 6:50:51 AM PST by palmer (Free is when you don't have to pay for nothing. Or do nothing. We want Obamanet.)
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To: palmer

Actually, I was relieved by the short half life.


26 posted on 01/25/2015 6:58:03 AM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: nuconvert

I doubt the Russians would bring P210 into England just to bump someone off, too much risk of international incident if they were caught.

More than likely they were there to retrieve it.


27 posted on 01/25/2015 7:11:14 AM PST by IMR 4350
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To: elhombrelibre
I don't have any. I don't have audio tapes, video, or photos. I don't have copies of e-mail.

I do have a very strong suspicion based on what I have read in several articles. He was healthy, and relatively young (he was only 43 years old). He had recently lost weight. He exhibited no symptoms of illness that night or right before he was found stricken. The forensics technician investigating his death at the L.A. Coroners Office, Michael Cormier, died suddenly after complaining of pain and vomiting. Right before his death, he announced he had videos that would spell "the end of Obama" and was about to release them. The videos that his Brietbart media eventually did release were videos that had already been seen before and were not of the same subject matter that Andrew Brietbart had discussed and told CPAC he was going to release. If the original tapes had surfaced, then I would have believed he died of a heart attack. But they didn't. Several of Breitbart's friends and colleagues recommended he get a body guard and never be alone in the street. Michael Savage also told him this. The EMTs who responded said that Breitbart's body was "bright red." Most heart attack victims turn blue.

Did he simply die of natural causes? Sure, that could have happened.

But there is a history with Obama that makes me very suspicious. A homosexual member of Obama's radical "church" under the "Rev" Wright died under suspicious circumstances, and his family is convinced he was murdered.

So all in all, I lean towards Obama taking him out. If he didn't, then he didn't. But if he did, then he, and those responsible, will answer to God.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/garrow-breitbarts-big-mouth-got-him-michael-hastings-tom-clancy-all-killed-president-obama

28 posted on 01/25/2015 7:23:23 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: nuconvert
Fortunately, that brave man semi-recovered over the years from the dioxin poisoning assassination attempt.


29 posted on 01/25/2015 7:26:46 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: elhombrelibre; nuconvert; BeadCounter; 2ndDivisionVet
On the headline of Drudge this morning:

Argentine prosecutor shot point blank in forehead: official


30 posted on 01/25/2015 7:32:49 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

I’d suspect the Iranians first, then the Argentine government. I could be wrong.


31 posted on 01/25/2015 9:33:31 AM PST by BeadCounter
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To: SkyPilot

Per Argentina: I have seen the people protesting. God Bless Them. This is horrible.


32 posted on 01/25/2015 9:54:16 AM PST by BeadCounter
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Yes, it is. But if he didn’t become a Moslem until he was dying from poisoning, his religion was not the likely motive for his murder, right? I mean logically speaking we don’t poison people because they might convert to a religion that’s one we hate or fear. I’d say he was murdered because he was a knowledgeable and capable critic of the arch criminal Putin.


33 posted on 01/25/2015 10:37:52 AM PST by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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