Litvinenko victim of "state-sponsored" assassination.
Published Mon, Nov 27 2006 12:13 AM
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According to the Times Online, British intelligence agencies are claiming that Alexander Litvenenko's death looks like a "state-sponsored" assassination. That lines up nicely with a death bed statement written by the former spy turned dissident in London.
A senior Whitehall official told The Times that confirmation that the former Russian spy, who had become a British citizen, had been poisoned with radioactive polonium-210 and other evidence so far not released pointed to the murder being carried out by foreign agents.
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The quantity of polonium-210 used could only have been obtained from a nuclear instillation, scientific experts said.
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Mr Putin interrupted preparations for an EU/Russia summit in Helsinki to deny involvement. He criticised Mr Litvinenko's entourage, the media, the British secret service and even the Italian Mafia. He claimed that the letter accusing him of being "barbaric and ruthless" was a forgery concocted by Mr Litvinenko's wife and father: "If this note was produced before the death of Mr Litvinenko, I wonder why it was not published when he was alive?"
Could it possibly be that it was not published when he was alive because it was made just before his death? The more I read about this, the more convinced I am that something is rotten in Russia.
I noted on Friday that the amount of polonium used would be easy to obtain for a government, but not something that would be easily obtained otherwise.
Vladimir Putin's denials are beginning to sound more and more hollow to me. It's no secret that the Putin government has not been a true friend of the west. Could this have been motivation to silence Litvinenko and Victor Yushchenko before him?
Litvinenko had been a pro-western dissident voice critical of the Russian government for the last six years. In 2004 Victor Yushchenko, another pro-western voice was poisoned with Dioxins prior to being elected. Poisoning seems to be a very popular method of silencing dissidents in Putin's Russia.
Now, with Putin's criticisms expanding to cover not just Litvinenko and his entourage, the media, and the British secret service, I must admit to being curious about the Italian Mafia's role in all of this.
Hat tip: National Terror Alert Response Center.
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