Scotland Yard has launched an investigation into an audacious attempt to murder – using a deadly poison – a leading Russian defector at a restaurant in London.
https://tinyurl.com/y8bh8r
Former KGB agent dies in London hospital
Alexander Litvinenko in his London hospital bed earlier this week.
https://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,1955976,00.html
Kremlin 'was complicit in Chechen murders'
The European Court of Human Rights has found the Kremlin complicit in the murder and abduction of Chechen civilians snatched by Russian troops between 2000 and 2002.
https://www.agrnews.org/?section=news&news_section=2&#KremlinwascomplicitinChechenmurders
Another Former Russian Agent Poisoned
Andrei Lugovoy, a former FSB agent and a friend of Alexander Litvinenko, says he and his wife and children have been contaminated by polonium-210, and says he is being framed for the killing.
https://tinyurl.com/y5aw9v
Russia won't extradite suspects
Russia will not extradite suspects in the Alexander Litvinenko case to Britain, its chief prosecutor has said.
https://tinyurl.com/y27s7b
The poisoning of a former KGB agent mystifies experts with its clumsiness
https://tinyurl.com/yjvyjt
From Information Clearing House
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Intrigue Swirls in Ex-KGB Man's Illness
The British police said Sunday that they were investigating the suspected poisoning of Alexander V. Litvinenko, a Russian former KGB operative living in exile in Britain who had been inquiring into the killing of a journalist in Moscow last month.
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112006N.shtml
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Crude assassinations, espionage and power grabs are Kremlin calling card
https://www.infowars.net/articles/november2006/201106KGB.htm
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Litvinenko's deathbed statement accuses Putin of murder
https://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5322/
Informant: jensenmk
Was former KGB agent murdered over false-flag terrorism within Russia?
https://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Was_former_KGB_agent_murdered_over_1126.html
Informant: Amy Sasser
From ufpj-news
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Russian Spy Accuses Putin From Deathbed
The Russian former spy Alexander Litvinenko had received a high dose of radiation, probably polonium 210, before he died, scientists at the Health Protection Agency (HPA) revealed this afternoon. Before losing consciousness earlier this week Mr. Litvinenko blamed Putin.
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112406G.shtml
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Nuclear fallout: Alexander Litvinenko died in agony, who killed him, and why?
https://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2016152.ece
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Nuclear poison: the deadly trade
https://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1957301,00.html
Informant: binstock
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Litvinenko Was Apparently A Sacrificial Lamb
https://www.rense.com/general74/lelv.htm
The Litvinenko Plot Thickens
https://www.govcov.com/karlschwarzarticles/litvinenko_112706.html
Informant: Shanti Renfrew
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Pale Fire and London Fog
Chris Floyd writes: "Everyone knows that Russian exile Alexander Litvinenko was killed by radiation poisoning in London last month. But beyond that bare fact, almost nothing is clear about the case. The truth has disappeared, probably forever, into the shadowlands - that murky confluence of crime, violence, money and politics where so much of the real business of the world is conducted."
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/113006J.shtml
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Pale Fire and London Fog: Illuminating Outliers in the Death of Alexander Litvinenko
https://www.lewrockwell.com/floyd/floyd43.html
How To Learn the Truth About Litvinenko
https://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10228
Informant: Lew Rockwell
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Polonium-210? it's yours for $69, no questions asked
A company in the US claims to supply polonium-210 to anyone for just $69 plus postage and packing. A three-pack set of “alpha, beta, gamma” radioactive isotopes also includes polonium-210.
https://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2478908,00.html
Spy poison drama
Litvinenko now cast in role of blackmailer
https://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2035168.ece
The Putin bodyguard riddle
A FORMER bodyguard to President Vladimir Putin was murdered with a poison that produced symptoms remarkably similar to those of Alexander Litvinenko it emerged yesterday, writes Jonathan Calvert.
https://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2484298,00.html
Polonium tightly controlled in Russia -atomic chief
Polonium 210, a highly toxic radioactive substance found in the body of an ex-KGB spy who died in London last week, cannot be obtained illegally in Russia, its nuclear energy chief was quoted as saying on Friday.
https://tinyurl.com/y7x2ug
Putin a '1-man dictatorship'
Vladimir Putin is a "one-man dictatorship" and he should do more to help the U.S. confront Iran's nuclear ambitions, Sen. Lindsey Graham (news, bio, voting record), R-S.C., said Sunday.
https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061203/ap_on_go_co/us_russia
U.S. Senators Speak Against Putin`s Policy
Biden says Russia is “moving more and more toward an oligarchy.” “Our relations with Russia have to get straightened out,” he was quoted as saying.
https://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/12/04/ussenators.shtml
'I was poisoned for shared secrets'
An Italian contact of poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko said he believed both were targeted with a radioactive substance because of secrets they shared.
https://tinyurl.com/y8pvcb
Litvinenko 'killed over dossier' on senior Putin ally
Alexander Litvinenko was murdered by radioactive poisoning because of a dossier he had compiled on a high-ranking Russian figure close to President Vladimir Putin, another former agent claimed yesterday.
https://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2081649.ece
From Information Clearing House
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A message to critics in ex-spy's murder
Boston Globe
by Cathy Young
12/04/06
The precise circumstances of the death of Alexander Litvinenko, the Russian ex-spy-turned-dissident who died of radiation poisoning Nov. 23, are likely to remain a mystery for some time. But the tragedy and the reaction to it actually reveal a great deal about Vladimir Putin's Russia -- and the West. Litvinenko fell ill after a meeting with a source in his investigation of the recent fatal shooting of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, another strong critic of the Putin regime. He issued a deathbed statement naming Putin as his murderer. This does not, of course, constitute proof of Putin's involvement. But the fact that Litvinenko was poisoned with polonium, a highly radioactive substance that is virtually impossible to manufacture or obtain outside a sophisticated nuclear laboratory, points to a high-level plot...
https://tinyurl.com/ydprnv
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Polonium-210 für 69 US-Dollar
Der Fall Litvinenko beweist, dass es nicht gleich schmutzige Bomben und islamistische Terroristen sein müssen, um auf die Gefahren von massenhaft vorhandenem radioaktiven Material hinzuweisen, das man - "frisch vom Atomreaktor" - auch im Internet erwerben kann.
https://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24073/1.html
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Operation Litwinenko
Der kleine Atomangriff auf London
https://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24177/1.html
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Putin
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Politkovskaya
