Was the use of polonium to kill Litvinenko a clue to the identity of the killer or killers?
There is increasing evidence that the radioactive poisoning assassination of ex-KGB and FSB agent and Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko was the result of a plot by anti-Vladimir Putin criminal syndicates based in Britain, Israel, Ukraine, and Poland to embarrass the Russian government.
Suspicions about the role of the exiled Russian-Israeli criminal syndicates in the poisoning of Litvinenko, including that headed by Litvinenko's friend, wanted oligarch Boris Berezovsky, re-surfaced after former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar became violently ill after eating breakfast at a conference he was attending in Dublin, Ireland. Ireland's banking secrecy laws has made it a favorite location for the Russian-Israeli Mafia.
Gaidar's sudden illness occurred a day after Litvinenko died in a London hospital from poisoning from polonium-210, a deadly radioactive isotope when ingested. Radioactive traces were later discovered at sites around London, including Berezovsky's offices in the West End.
Gaidar was moved from a Dublin hospital to a Moscow hospital where he received a telephone call from Putin wishing him a speedy recovery. Putin's Mafiosi critics in Britain, Israel, Moscow, and other countries have accused the Russian leader of poisoning Litvinenko and attempting to kill Gaidar.
However, Russian officials are claiming that the attacks were carried out by Putin's criminal opponents who want to create tension between Moscow and the West.
Their arguments appear to have merit when the choice of radioactive isotope used to kill Litvinenko is considered. Intelligence experts point out that polonium was discovered by Marie Curie (nee Maria Sklodowska) in 1897 and named after her native homeland Poland (Polonia in Latin) to express her support for Polish independence against its partition by Russia, Prussia and Austria.
Before Putin moved in to take over Yukos Oil from the Russian criminal syndicates, there were plans to build a Russian-German gas pipeline through Poland. After Poland was taken over by a neo-con team of identical twins Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who serve as President and Prime Minister, respectively, Poland not only began to conduct a witch hunt against ex-Communists but also became a base of operations for the anti-Putin Russian-Israeli exiled gangsters and oligarchs.
Named as Defense Minister was former American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Radek Sikorski, who also happens to be married to Washington Post editorial board member and leading neo-con journalist Anne Applebaum, also a leading critic of Putin (along with a number of so-called "liberals," including Clinton ambassador to the UN Richard Holbrooke).
After Putin decided, along with former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, to bypass Poland and build the Russo-German pipeline under the Baltic Sea, Sikorski unleashed a barrage against Russia and Germany. He likened the pipeline deal to the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Agreement that carved up Eastern Europe, including Poland, between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Sikorski asked German Chancellor Angela Merkel to cancel the pipeline deal but she refused.
We now know that Litvinenko was working on unspecified "energy issues" in London. We also know he has been described as a Russian-Israeli "double agent" and was reported to have transferred classified Russian documents in Yukos to a Russian-Israeli exiled oligarch in Tel Aviv. Double agents are always in danger from the party they are working against.
Litvinenko's killers' use of polonium, named by Marie Curie in support of Polish independence, may mean that the assassins are more likely found in Warsaw's Russian-Israeli mob infested intelligence apparatus than in the Kremlin.
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That element was named for America. Does that mean that if it was Americium we would consider an 'American' hand in that business?
I am asking a simple question here, though. How come we in our media consider openly (and only for Russia) that a President of that country can order a direct assassination of an individual. How come we do not consider that Buckingham palace could order killing of the Princess Diana, that White House could order the assassination of senator Wellstone (that version was not even considered) that President of our country is capable of criminal negligence (like in case of Katrina) and that Tony Blair could order killing of the journalists and witnesses in Iraq. How come we, in our open media refer to 'Russian - Israeli mafia' without resorting to the MI-6 or CIA or Mossad or other secret services. In all fairness, Russian-Israeli mafia in Europe if existing is there exactly thanks to its contacts with those organizations, is it not?
Polonium is a man- made element. It has to be made, stored, presented and distributed. It is much easier to do that on-site than to transport from elsewhere. Also, British police does not reveal and we do not ask if there were similar cases with other people and if yes, who those people were. All of that is very vague as it should be when we want sensation and not substance.
It was another unfortunate death of a man who got caught between many powers and could not survive. It was a tragedy. Maybe the only lesson we can learn from it is that those powers were supposed actually to serve us and instead they are running amok. You know what should be done in Britain? The MI-6 and all the other similar 'companies' should be suspended in their activity and criminal invetigation sought against their leaders. Charge should be criminal negligence in the protection of the people on the English soil and punishment should be death by firing squad. Or maybe by polonium?
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Mark Sashine (46 articles, 19 quicklinks, 235 diaries, 3358 comments)
on Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 12:40:07 PM
And who'd they send it to? Bush sent Leahy and Daschle a message, just as he did Margaret Hussein. I hope Bush and Putin caught something while staring into each other's souls. Putin had the most to risk.
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Blue Whistler (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 14 comments)
on Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 6:07:48 PM
The Irish Bulletin Blog (http://theirishbulletin.blogspot.com/ ) states that Great Britain and Russia were on the verge of signing an extradtion treaty that would likely guarantee Boris Berezovsky a one-way trip back to Russia when the Alexander Litvinenko murder occurred. If this is true, how incredibly timely this melodramatic media event is.
So, do we now have a stong motive for Boris doing in Alexander, on top of his well-established hatred for Putin? Did he arrange the murder to look like a replay of From Russia with Love, although the villain in that movie actually wasn't the Russian government either, but an international crime syndicate/terrorist organization?
So far Berezovsky has gotten pretty good mileage out of the media, but will the assassination and recriminations really derail the extradition treaty? Don't be surprised if Boris suddenly disappears underground if the winds shift.
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Mac McKinney (42 articles, 60 quicklinks, 142 diaries, 966 comments)
on Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 10:51:49 PM
