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  • Dmitry Kovtun, Russian agent implicated in the radioactive poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006, is dead.

    06/04/2022 6:03:16 AM PDT · by lump in the melting pot · 17 replies
    Twitter, Wikipedia ^ | June 4, 2022 | Oliver Carroll
    Dmitry Kovtun is dead, say reports. Mr Kovtun led an unusual life: from wannabe porn star, rubbish collector, waiter and alcoholic, to one of two Russian agents implicated in the radioactive poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006. What dreams are made of.
  • After Long Legal Fight, Inquest Is Set to Begin in Death of Putin Critic

    01/25/2015 12:51:07 AM PST · by elhombrelibre · 32 replies
    NYT ^ | 24 Jan 15 | Alan Cowell
    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...
  • US to close two Russia consulates

    12/19/2020 4:02:39 PM PST · by texas booster · 8 replies
    The Hill website ^ | Dec 18, 2020 | Tal Axelrod
    The State Department has informed Congress that it plans to shutter its last two consulates in Russia over caps set by Moscow on the number of diplomats that are allowed in the country. In a letter to congressional leaders sent Dec. 10 and obtained by The Hill, the administration said it will permanently close its Vladivostok consulate and temporarily halt work at the consulate in Yekaterinburg. The letter confirming the closures was sent three days before news broke of a major hack of U.S. government agencies that is believed to have been conducted by an elite Russian cyber espionage unit....
  • Russian oligarch, Kremlin critic Berezovsky dies in Britain

    03/25/2013 2:31:43 PM PDT · by Red Badger
    AFP ^ | 03-24-2013 | By Alice Ritchie
    LONDON — Boris Berezovsky, the exiled Russian oligarch and long-time opponent of the Kremlin, died at his home in Britain on Saturday aged 67 in unexplained circumstances, officials said. British police launched a full investigation into the death at the mansion in the well-heeled commuter town of Ascot, near London, saying it was "currently being treated as unexplained". Berezovsky's lawyer Alexander Dobrovinsky told Russian television the tycoon had committed suicide after suffering from weeks of depression over his huge debts, although another friend strongly denied this. Berezovsky was one of handful of businessmen who made a fortune out of the...
  • Georgian National Extradited from Moldova to Face Charges for Soliciting Hate Crimes and Planning Mass Casualty Attack in New York City

    05/24/2025 1:46:48 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 8 replies
    justice.gov ^ | May 23, 2025 | US DOJ
    Leader of White Supremacist Group ‘Maniac Murder Cult’ Recruited Others to Bomb and Poison the Jewish Community and Racial Minorities Defendant Allegedly Planned Scheme to Distribute Poisoned Candy on New Year’s EveGeorgian national Michail Chkhikvishvili, also known as Mishka, Michael, Commander Butcher, and Butcher, 21, of Tbilisi, was extradited to the United States from Moldova on May 22, and will be arraigned in federal court in Brooklyn today. Chkhikvishvili was arrested in Chișinău, Moldova, in July 2024 in connection with a four-count indictment returned in the Eastern District of New York charging him with soliciting hate crimes and acts of...
  • Russian accused of killing Alexander Litvinenko reportedly dies from Covid-19

    06/10/2022 12:35:44 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 4 replies
    Daily Star (U.K.) ^ | 5 JUN 2022 | Jamie Barwick
    One of two men believed by British intelligence to have poisoned a Russian spy’s tea with a rare radioactive substance in London has died, according to a state-owned news agencyOne of the men accused of killing former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in London has died of Covid-19 in Moscow, according to reports. Dmitri Kovtun was one of two men who a UK inquiry ruled had poisoned Litvinenko’s tea with a rare radioactive substance back in 2006. Reports from state-owned Russian news agency Tass said Kovtun contracted coronavirus before dying in a Moscow hospital. Kovtun, along with Andrei Lugovoi, was...
  • Kremlin official named as source of Hillary 'dirt' is KILLED in Russian helicopter crash (TR)

    10/05/2018 12:54:58 PM PDT · by DFG · 42 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 10/05/2018 | Dailymail Reporter
    A high-ranking Russian law official believed to be the authority behind attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya, who took part in the notorious Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr during the presidential campaign, has been killed in a mysterious helicopter crash. Deputy prosecutor-general Saak Karapetyan - a long-time ally of President Vladimir Putin - died last night when his AS-350 came down in Kostroma region northeast of Moscow during an unauthorized flight. Karapetyan had been in charge of Russian criminal investigations into the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the UK, and the deaths of Putin critic...
  • Dead Russian spy planned blackmail: acquaintance ['60 minutes' working for Putin]

    01/06/2007 2:12:56 AM PST · by AdmSmith · 13 replies · 872+ views
    Reuters ^ | January 05 2007 | unknown
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - An acquaintance of a former Russian agent killed by radiation poisoning in London said in a television interview that Alexander Litvinenko, who accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering his murder, had planned to blackmail a wealthy Russian businessman. Russian Julia Svetlichnaya said she was a graduate student in London when she spoke to Litvinenko -- a former Russian state security officer who died on November 23 in London after ingesting polonium 210 -- about a book she was writing. "He told me ... he's doing a project for blackmailing one of the Russian oligarchs (exiled...
  • News Summary-Intelligence Report Wednesday 8/14/2024*Gaza Talks Go On Without Hamas*World Health Organization Declares Mpox Emergency*Cyber Attack On Iranian Banking System*Inflation Goes Below Three Percent In US*

    08/14/2024 7:14:37 PM PDT · by Nextrush · 8 replies
    Nextrush Free ^ | 8/14/2024 | Nextrush/Self
    The President of Columbia University resigning... A massive data breach with hackers perhaps getting the Social Security number of every American... The situation regarding talks in Qatar tomorrow regarding some sort of deal on a ceasefire and release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. It's a murky situation... In Israel a key political opponent of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saddled with a bill... An American citizen being held in Moscow accused of attacking a police officer... The World Health Organization declaring worldwide emergency related to 'mpox' formerly called "Monkeypox"... Two French warplanes colliding in the skies over France...One crew...
  • Dallas doctor found guilty of poisoning IV bags

    04/12/2024 7:16:04 PM PDT · by Harmless Teddy Bear · 30 replies
    Fox4 KDFW ^ | April 12, 2024 | FOX 4 Staff and Lori Brown
    DALLAS - Dr. Raynaldo Ortiz has been found guilty of injecting dangerous drugs into IV bags at the Baylor Scott & White Surgicare in North Dallas. The 12-person jury returned guilty verdicts on all 10 counts. The jury reached the guilty verdict after about seven hours of deliberations. Ortiz was wearing a mask and showed no emotion as the verdict was read. There were 11 patients who suffered cardiac emergencies, and a fellow doctor, Dr. Melanie Kaspar, died from the IV bags. "There's no closure. My best friend is gone," said John Kaspar, Dr. Melanie Kaspar's widower, shortly after the...
  • Woman sentenced to 22 years in prison for mailing ricin to Trump in 2020

    08/18/2023 1:17:36 PM PDT · by Libloather · 39 replies
    The Hill ^ | 8/17/23 | Ella Lee
    A Quebec woman was sentenced to 22 years in prison Thursday after sending letters containing ricin to former President Trump in 2020. Pascale Ferrier, 55, pleaded guilty in January to making ricin in her home and mailing Trump and eight Texas law enforcement officials threatening letters laced with it. The toxin is made from waste material left over from processing castor beans. She faced a charge of prohibitions with respect to biological weapons in Washington, D.C., and eight counts of the same charge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. She agreed to have the Texas...
  • Foreign National Sentenced to Over 21 Years for Mailing Ricin to President of the United States in 2020

    08/24/2023 12:26:25 AM PDT · by ransomnote · 5 replies
    justice.gov ^ | August 17, 2023 | DOJ Office of Public Affairs
    Defendant Also Mailed Threatening Ricin Letters to Texas Law Enforcement OfficialsPascale Cecile Veronique Ferrier, 55, a dual citizen of Canada and France, was sentenced today to 262 months in prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for sending threatening letters, containing homemade ricin (a toxin), in September 2020, to then-President Donald J. Trump at the White House, and to eight Texas State law enforcement officials.Ferrier pleaded guilty on Jan. 25 to prohibitions with respect to biological weapons in two separate criminal cases. One case was brought in the District of Columbia, and the other was brought in the Southern...
  • Couple slammed for ice cream licking stunt: ‘What is wrong with people?’

    05/10/2023 1:30:14 PM PDT · by lowbridge · 34 replies
    nypost.com ^ | May 10, 2023 | Jack Hobbs
    The internet got icy with this couple. A Virginia couple was slammed online after a video of the pair licking an ice cream container at a grocery store and then putting it back went viral. In a now-deleted Instagram post, the couple, identified as Tequan and Asia Hines, walk down the freezer section of a grocery store when Tequan encourages Asia to open a tub of Blue Bunny Soft Vanilla ice cream and lick the top. “Let me taste it. Let me taste it,” Tequan can be heard saying as he films his wife. Asia then lifts the tub up...
  • Biden quietly releases al Qaeda terrorist Majid Khan to Belize after 16 years in CIA custody in Guantanamo Bay as US was focused on Chinese spy balloon: Terrorist who was radicalized by 9/11 says: 'I promise I've changed'

    02/11/2023 10:24:20 PM PST · by Jonty30 · 23 replies
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ ^ | 5 February 2023 | MELISSA KOENIG
    While Americans were focused on a Chinese spy balloon making its way across the country, the Biden administration quietly released an al Qaeda terrorist radicalized by the September 11 attacks from Guantanamo Bay. The Pentagon announced on Thursday that Majid Khan, 42, was moved to Belize after spending 16 years in CIA custody. Authorities have maintained he was a close personal ally of al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who helped deliver money and transport other senior terrorists. And under Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's plans, Khan would have attacked US gas stations and water reservoirs.
  • Reports: Package sent to Trump contained deadly ricin poison

    09/19/2020 11:06:15 PM PDT · by UMCRevMom@aol.com · 49 replies
    americanmilitarynews.com ^ | September 19, 2020 | Ryan Morgan
    This is a breaking news story. Please check back for updates as more information becomes available. A package containing the deadly poison ricin addressed to President Donald Trump was intercepted by law enforcement sometime this week, before it was delivered to the president, two law enforcement officials told CNN on Saturday. Two law enforcement officials also told CNBC about the ricin package that was addressed to Trump. According to CNN, two tests were performed on the package, to confirm the presence of the deadly ricin poison, and the FBI, U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Postal Inspection Service are investigating the...
  • Chemical Weapon for Sale: China’s Unregulated Narcotic

    11/22/2021 2:30:57 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 7 replies
    It’s one of the strongest opioids in circulation, so deadly an amount smaller than a poppy seed can kill a person. Until July, when drug users in the United States started overdosing on carfentanil, the substance was best known for knocking out moose and elephants — or as a chemical weapon. Despite the dangers, Chinese vendors offer to sell carfentanil openly online, for worldwide export, no questions asked, an Associated Press investigation has found. The AP identified 12 Chinese businesses that said they would export carfentanil to the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium and Australia for...
  • Obama Administration Agrees To Extradite “Lady Al Qaeda” To Pakistan

    07/22/2013 2:43:00 PM PDT · by lowbridge · 8 replies
    http://freedomoutpost.com/ ^ | july 22, 2013 | Pamela Geller
    Aafia Siddiqui is a MIT-trained neuroscientist who married a top Al Qaeda operative who intended to blow up gas stations or poison water reservoirs in the United States. She is known as “Lady Al Qaeda,” and was convicted of attempting to murder Americans in Afghanistan after she was found with plans for a “mass casualty attack” in the United States, along with a list of New York landmarks. Aafia Siddiqui named Farha Ahmed as her legal counsel in a handwritten letter in October of 2010. Farha Ahmed was running for office in Texas. Farha Ahmed was the leader of the...
  • Sheriff: Hacker Tried to Taint Florida City's Water With Lye

    02/08/2021 5:03:12 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 20 replies
    ABC News ^ | February 8, 2021
    Authorities say a hacker gained access to a Florida city’s water treatment plant in an unsuccessful attempt to fill the water supply with a potentially harmful chemicalA hacker remotely gained access to a Florida city’s water treatment plant in an unsuccessful attempt to fill the water supply with a potentially harmful chemical, authorities said. An unknown suspect breached a computer system for the city of Oldsmar's water treatment plant on Friday and briefly increased the amount of sodium hydroxide from 100 parts per million to 11,100 parts per million, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said during a news conference Monday....
  • Hackers allegedly tried to poison Florida city’s water supply

    02/08/2021 5:01:50 PM PST · by dynachrome · 7 replies
    NY Post ^ | 2-8-21 | Tamar Lapin
    A hacker recently tried to poison a Florida city’s water supply, police announced Monday. Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said someone remotely accessed a computer system that controls the City of Oldsmar’s water treatment facility on Friday. The unidentified person increased the amount of sodium hydroxide being distributed into the city’s drinking water to a “dangerous” level, Gualtieri said at a press conference. The chemical, also known as lye, is used in small amounts to control the water’s acidity — but can be deadly if ingested in large quantities. A worker at the plant immediately noticed the change and reversed...
  • Venezuelan lawmaker Freddy Superlano poisoned in Colombia

    02/23/2019 8:53:23 PM PST · by PghBaldy · 23 replies
    BNO News ^ | February 23
    Venezuelan lawmaker Freddy Superlano, a member of the opposition party, is in serious but stable condition after being poisoned in Colombia, his party says. His cousin has passed away. Voluntad Popular, the party of opposition leader Juan Guaidó, said late on Saturday that Superlano was poisoned at a restaurant in Cúcuta, a city near the border with Venezuela. His assistant and cousin, Carlos Salinas, died.