You don't say...
Posted on 12/02/2006 8:07:13 PM PST by jdm
We first met beside the statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus. Wearing dark glasses and leather jacket, Alexander Litvinenko appeared unexpectedly behind my back, saying: 'I was watching you from around the corner. You are not a spy, are you?' I suggested coffee in the nearby Caffe Nero, the first of our often chaotic, erratic conversations we would share from last April until his death.
I asked various questions about the Chechen people in Moscow during the Eighties and Nineties. Litvinenko, though, leapt from one exotic story to another - secret operations in Afghanistan, a plot against Boris Yeltsin, the assassination of former Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev; all these memories still seemed dear to his heart. In the end I made my excuses and left.
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So we carried on walking, Litvinenko regaling me with more stories about his war against the Kremlin. 'Every time I publish something on the Chechen press website, I piss them off. One day they will understand who I am!' he said.
Some of his emails were confidential documents from the FSB, the successor to the KGB; others were his own writings for the Chechen press. Many of his 'political' texts were too obviously rants to take seriously: one of his wildest claims was that Putin was a paedophile.
(Excerpt) Read more at observer.guardian.co.uk ...
You don't say...
Poor George Bush.... Remember when he said he could see into Putin's heart and that he was a good man? HA
Interesting. Was Litvinenko simply a legend in his own mind?
Do you think Berezovsky's tactics included using Litvinenko and Anna whatsername as guinea pigs? What about the other guy (can't remember his name) - the one who had lunch with Litvinenko and was supposedly mildly poisoned? Who is he? Could he have poisoned Litvinenko and contaminated himself, turning himself in for tests to keep suspicion away from him?
Chances are they were poisoned with radiation on their phone -- anyone with close, prolonged contact with that phone could have gotten it. I doubt the Sushi bar had anything to do with it.
WHy would Russians use radiation? It's impossible to trace I understand. /s
13.3 % of the Russian population is Muslim. There are 1 million Muslims in Moscow. Do they ALL want to kill themselves to 'hurt Putin'.
Actually, alpha radiation was impossible for police or Scotland Yard to detect as a poison until the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) scientists in England figured out new methods to accurately isolate Polonium from organics. It was not supposed to be discovered.
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