Who Killed Litvinenko? - Try asking Vladimir Putin

The Wall Street Journal ^ | November 27, 2006 | David Satter

[Zakeet]

MOSCOW--Until a week ago, Alexander Litvinenko, a former colonel in the Russian Federal Security Service, the FSB, was virtually unknown outside the murky world of Russian intelligence. With his death in London from a massive dose of the radioactive element polonium 210, however, his fate may lead to a fundamentally different relationship between Russia and the West.

Beginning with the Yeltsin era, two U.S. administrations have muted their criticism of Russia. This was the case even in the face of a series of political murders in Russia. But if Litvinenko, a British subject, was murdered by Russian intelligence on British soil, self-censorship is no longer an option. Unless we want to give the Putin regime carte blanche to dispose of its enemies on our soil, we now have no choice but to react.

Russian television has given an explanation for the murder of Litvinenko as surrealistic as any offered by the Soviets during the Cold War. It attributed his death to intrigues in the entourage of the exiled Russian oligarch, Boris Berezovsky. An announcer on the evening news said Litvinenko was "a pawn in a game whose significance he did not understand."

Mr. Berezovsky, however, had no reason to kill Litvinenko, whose views he shared and whom he had helped since his arrival in the U.K. in 2000. In November 1998, Litvinenko revealed a plot to kill Mr. Berezovsky who, at the time, was the deputy head of the Russian security council. The evidence points instead to Litvinenko having been murdered by the FSB, which, together with the other "force ministries," has become the dominant political force in Russia today.

[george76]

[PhilDragoo]

[GSlob]

Post # 19. Rule #3, then Rule # 1.

[M. Espinola]

Sure Comrade, whatever you print nobody is buying.

[M. Espinola]

"Sorta" is right :)

[M. Espinola]

The kegebun lurking on this thread is following the official rules, but he sounds so much like another well known Comrade.

[M. Espinola]

[MARKUSPRIME]

LMAO! Yep.

[M. Espinola]

The only 'Comrade' in this joint - is you, Gar.

[george76]

Nice work !

[george76]

[GSlob]

Do you really need to do your kegebuchij strip-tease in public? Noone needs to show how bad the kegebuns are, since this had been known from the day one, even before there was a KGB. KGB is merely a very fitting symbol, essence and expression of a KGB-like ["kegebuchej"] civilization.

[GSlob]

To illustrate the logic involved, there was an old joke, translated here in the PC-pu[t]rified form: two competing merchants [let us call them X and Y] meet on the road. X thinks "well, if he asks me where I'm going, I should not tell him the truth that I'm going to A, and should instead say that I'm going to B. But since he would not believe me, I am to say that I am going to A". Well, they meet, exchange greetings, and merchant Y asks, "well, and where are you going?"
-"To A"
-"You are lying in your teeth, old X, you ARE going to A".

[dixiechick2000]

Hmmmmmmm...
Our new "comrade" has some interesting postings.


Do you attract this sort often?
I had to LOL at your graphic. ;o)