Posted on 12/11/2006 1:08:10 PM PST by A. Pole
RUSSIAN prosecutors investigating the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, the former spy who defected to Britain, want to travel to London to question a billionaire Russian exile and a Chechen associate.
The move is likely to further strain relations between Russia and Britain, which have been undermined by allegations that the FSB, the former KGB, might be involved in the killing.
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The Russian investigators' targets are Boris Berezovsky, the London-based billionaire businessman who employed Litvinenko and is a long-time critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Akhmed Zakayev, a Chechen exile the Russians want to extradite on charges of terrorism, which he denies.
"There is no doubt we will demand to question Berezovsky and Zakayev," said a source close to the Moscow inquiry into the death. "They both knew Litvinenko, and could hold vital information."
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And I'm sure Amnesty International will be there to moniter the "questioning".
It just keeps getting more and more interesting.
I guess the Russians will want to interview Bush too for his support of Yushchenko , another recipient of Bad Sushi.
I don't feel too sorry for a Chechen dissident.
Even aside from who is actually guilty, it can get very awkward when the police of one country want to investigate people in another country, and the threat of extradition arises. It's all the more difficult when it's not clear who are the perpetrators and who are the victims or what the crime was.
Do not complain about Bad Sushi, without that Yushchenko would not become the president of Ukraine. If Paris was worth a Mass so the Ukraine was worth eating a bad sushi.
Not that Yushchenko was aware of it. :)
"Do not complain about Bad Sushi, without that Yushchenko would not become the president of Ukraine."
Soviet Think at its best! - no wonder your country is worthless without its thievery.
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