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'Walking Dirty Bomb' Tells of London Meetings
Der Speigel ^ | 12/11/06 | Anna Sadovnikova

Posted on 12/11/2006 10:30:05 PM PST by Maynerd

'Walking Dirty Bomb' Tells of London Meetings By Anna Sadovnikova, Hans Hoyng, Thomas Hüetlin and Uwe Klussmann

A few days before he was put in quarantine in a Moscow hospital, Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi, believed to be one of Scotland Yard's main suspects in the killing of Alexander Litvinenko, spoke to DER SPIEGEL about his meetings with the former spy.

Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi during an interview on Ekho Moskvy radio in Moscow, November 23. Andrei Lugovoi, 40, former KGB agent, currently a kind of mini magnate in the Russian soft drinks industry, is the man British investigators believe left an unmistakeable radiation trail across London.

Wherever the businessman appeared during his almost weekly visits to the capital of the United Kingdom, he left traces of radiation; in planes that brought him to Britain, in the hotels where he stayed, in restaurants and offices where he met contacts.

Scotland Yard's specialists have given clear hints that they regard Lugovoi as the main suspect, the man responsible for the trail of the murder weapon, the isotope polonium-201 which points back to Moscow, where it's not exactly available on the open market -- only eight grams are exported a month.

They don't say so publicly but they think he brought the poison to London. Asked if they regard him as Litvinenko's murderer, they don't answer, of course.

And of course Lugovoi is professing his innocence. But that's not so easy for someone who is presumably surrounded by a whole corona of eastern and western secret service shadows. . .

(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: andreilugovoi; fsb; kgb; litvinenko; lugovoi; polonium201; polonium210; putin
All roads lead to Moscow.
1 posted on 12/11/2006 10:30:06 PM PST by Maynerd
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To: Maynerd; MadIvan; snugs; Tailgunner Joe; All

You got that right how many people he unknowledy expose to


2 posted on 12/11/2006 10:40:18 PM PST by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: Maynerd
Lugovoi and Kovtun didn't go into the house; instead they headed for a sauna hut some distance away. The dacha was "dirty," said Lugovoi. What did he mean? Contaminated with radiation? Bugged? Or just untidy? Later we saw door handles covered with sticky tape.

Looks like their house in Russia is contaminated and 'dirty'.

3 posted on 12/12/2006 12:50:40 AM PST by justa-hairyape
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