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November 20, 2006
Who Poisoned Alexander Litvinenko?

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Former FSB Lt. Colonel Alexander Litvinenko with his controversial book
Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within

London – Former Federal Security Service (FSB) Colonel Alexander Litvinenko, a vocal critic of the Kremlin, has apparently been poisoned with traces of the toxic metal thallium. Tonight the 41 year-old Russian exile is being treated in the intensive care unit of London's University College Hospital, and the staff has added extra security for Litvinenko's protection. Litvinenko is being fed intravenously, and has lost nearly all of his hair. Doctors treating him say his white blood cell count is down to nearly zero. This high profile poisoning case has drawn comparisons in Western media outlets to the dioxin poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko, shortly before he was elected President of Ukraine in 2004.

Litvinenko became violently ill following a meeting on November 1 with a man who claimed that he had information on the murder of the Russian journalist Anna Politovskaya. Litvinenko met his contact, an Italian academic named Mario Scaramella, at the Itsu sushi restaurant near London’s Picadilly district. Mr. Scaramella, an expert on the history KGB and FSB spy activities in his native Italy, contacted the British Embassy in Rome when he found out about Litvinenko’s illness. He is now in hiding and seeking protective custody as a material witness to the crime.

Mr. Litvinenko told his friend Alex Goldfarb that he had met two Russian men for drinks shortly before his sushi lunch, and had described the suspects to the London police. One of the suspects was unknown to Mr. Litvinenko, and it is still unclear why he agreed to meet with the two men.

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Litvinenko is best known in the West as the author of Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within. In his book, co-authored with the Russian historian Yuri Felshinsky, Litvinenko accuses the FSB of planting bombs in several Moscow apartment buildings in 1999 as part of a plot to blame the explosions on Chechen terrorists. The wave of bombings sparked the Second Chechen War. In 2004, two Chechens, Adam Dekushev and Jusuf Krymshankhalov, were convicted by a Moscow court of planting the explosives in the apartment blocs. Russian prosecutors claimed that the bombers were trained by the Saudi jihadist Ibn Khattab, who was later killed by Russian security forces. In a 2002 interview with Echo Moskvy radio, Litvinienko claimed that he had been in contact with a third Chechen suspect wanted for his alleged role in the attacks, Achemez Gochiyayev. According to Litvinenko, Mr. Gochiyayev affirmed his innocence and blamed FSB agents for the bombings.

Litvinenko resigned as a Lieutenant Colonel from the FSB in the mid-1990s, alleging that his superiors in the newly formed security service had ordered him to kill the oligarch Boris Berezovsky. At that time, Berezovsky had become the first billionaire in Russia and acquired enormous influence in President Yeltsin's kitchen cabinet of advisors known as "the Family".

By the late 1990s, Litvinenko faced multiple counts of prosecution for divulging state secrets and sought political asylum in Great Britain. He joined a circle of émigrés that included Berezovsky, the legendary KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky, and the chief spokesman for the “Chechen resistance”, Akhmed Zakayev.

Litvinenko has been a persistent critic of the Russian government for several years. After Anna Politovskaya was murdered on October 7, he accused Putin of personally ordering her death. For his part, Berezovsky has claimed that only security services like the FSB have access to the toxic thallium compound that was used to poison Litvinenko, though the doctors on the case have told reporters that thallium compounds can be found in some types of rat poison sold outside of the UK.

Both the Russian Embassy in London and FSB spokesmen in Moscow have strongly denied any involvement in the crime. Sky News quotes Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov dismissing accusations against the Russian security services: "Claims originating in London are bordering on stark raving madness and are not worthy of the Kremlin's official reaction."

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A photo released by Alexander Litvinenko's family to the press



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What did this guy do to make Putin want to assasinate him?

Looking at him, I suddenly realize that the word "traitor" is one of the most terrible insults in Russia.

NEXT????

Litvinenko, Alexander
Politkovskaya, Anna
Varisov, Magomedzagid
Klebnikov, Pavel
Sidorov, Aleksey
Ivanov, Valery
Skryl, Natalya
Markevich, Eduard
Domikov, Igor
Shekochikhin, Yuri
.. . . . . .

http://www.gdf.ru/content/2006/11/14112006.shtml

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/krushcheva26

The Western media emphasize that the person who might have poisoned Litvinenko was a former KGB agent. They fail to mention that this same person was more recently a security agent of Berezovsky, an exile crook who poses as anti-Putin and pro-"freedom". So the idea that it was Berezovsky who poisoned Litvinenko, in order to give more weight to his anti-Putin hysteria, has not been ever suggested in the Western mass media. Instead, the immediate suggestion was that it was Kremlin who poisoned him, to retaliate for his "revelations". Why is that?

And, by the way, the photo above is curious. The guy advertises his revelational book, with photos of his children in the background. The things he writes about have nothing to do with his family or anything sentimental. He suggests something totally outrageous and disgusting, that law enforcement has been organizing terrorist acts, murdering innocent country-men. So what kind of marketing exercise is that? He seems to be too anxious for the book to sell, and God knows what else he could do to make sure the book sells.

It should be quite obvious who murdered Alex Litvinenko. It was the dirty rotten piece of scum Putin and his group of no good garbage who did it. They are all the worst kind of murdering trash, unfit for human society. May they get theirs and soon. Rest in peace, Alex Litvinenko. May your death be avenged.

Indeed, the big question is who/what killed this man?

It seems to be the Russian state who killed him. The Associate Press reported high amounts of Thallium present in his body, even though Thallium only occurs in trace amounts in buildings and in the public. So it could have only been PUT in the ex-spy's body. That seems to be the natural conclusion.

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Who killed him I have no answer, but I think that we have to look in Russia. It's very logical that the Russians killed him as he was critizising the Putin, but now Russia is a very strong country they have oil and hold the world by the 'balls', so no one especially in UK wants a confrotation with Russia....The life of Alexander Litvinenko is not so important to create a world crisis. That what the Russians say. I know mentality and tactic way of operation. UK will not bother anymore. But now I ask myself: where are our morals?!?! Who will be next?!?.....this is a question of time only....

Here's an interesting take on the murder by Antiwar. From the article:

"...To begin with, Litvinenko's own deathbed statement to the contrary, there is no good reason why the KGB would target someone whose wild accusations are no more credible than our own prophets of the "9/11 Truth movement." Here, after all, is a Russian convert to Islam who has accused the Russian security services, specifically the FSB, of bombing Russian cities in an elaborate plot to justify the war on Chechnya and generate political support for Putin's domestic policies. He also claimed that the Russians were behind al-Qaeda and the Beslan massacre: he was sure the KGB trained and funded Ayman al-Zawahiri. He accused Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi of being a Soviet agent, and even went so far as to announce that Putin is a pedophile."

From Antiwar's article:

"...In any case, Lugovoi is part and parcel of the Berezovsky network, and if he had anything to do with the murder then the theory that this was a falling-out among Russian exiles, dressed up to look like a KGB hit, gains credibility. But how, then, does one explain the method utilized: polonium-210, which only a state is likely to have access to?

Then again, if we look at Berezovsky's estimated fortune of some $3 billion, his empire is for all intents and purposes a mini-state. Add to this the assets of other exiled oligarchs, including many who fled to Israel, and you have resources equal to the task of procuring and delivering polonium-210 to any target. Yet this still doesn't rule out state involvement in the operation, even if we assume Litvinenko's death resulted from some internecine squabble within the London-based exile community."

Actually, this is not correct. You certainly do NOT need anywhere around $3 billion to get Polonium-210, not even close. You can get Polonium-210 for $69, legally, you do not even need a license. The site [ http://unitednuclear.com/isotopes.htm ] states: "No NRC license required! All our radioactive isotopes are legal to purchase & own by the general public." See "Alpha-only radiation emitters" section if you want to buy Polonium-210.

Wouldn't the Kremlin be the last org to use such a scandalous method to do a wet affair? Not likely. More likely an org that wants to pin a tail on a donkey. Now don't we good Westerners still believe that a man is innocent until proven guilty? Or has that all gone by the wayside with the Global War? Anyway, it seems that the British authorities are saying it was an unknown cause of death and neith Thallium nor Polonium. So, the plot thickens and one name is definitely attached to it.
Nameless.

What about Litvinenko's own involvement in movement of nuclear weapons and that is how he came into contact with it. You don't know he may have not told the police everything? How did or does Berezovsky get his billions? Nuclear selling? Also how about someone else poisoning him to make it look like Russian involvement?

Wow, I was just doing some research on Litivenko and found some pretty amazing things about his bio:

http://www.usandworldpolitics.com/forum/7577-post12.html

I had no idea he alleged the FSB was behind terrorism in Russia and that Putin has criminal connections.

Alex Litvinenko from what I hear was investigating Anna Politkovskaya's murder. Anna P. was investigating Putin big time and had already been censored and messed with by the FSB on more than one occasion including the Chechnian School massacre. And by the way Anna P. was only the 12 Journalist to meet with an early grave since Putin has come to power. I am not real familiar with the Russian Bill of Rights, but sounds like this is concerning the freedom to be pressed rather than freedom of the press.

The message was simple. Don't speak out against the current situation or you will be killed. It doesn't matter who did it. It only matters that the people who did it don't want things to change and it is worth killing for it. If things change the people who did this will clearly loose something valuable. What will they loose? Power, control, who knows, the key is change - that is exactly what they don't want. The problem though is change is exactly what they are going to get now that the whole world has watched these events unfold.

It was former chess world champion Bobby Fischer who mentioned in a Moscow Radio interview May 15, 2005, how Jacob Rothschild had a secret deal with Yukos' Khodorkovsky. see :
"Bobby Fisher Live Radio Interviews"
http://www.fischer.jp/

I made a webpage about that :

"Russian Israeli duel for power, oil and dirty cash"
http://crashrecovery.org/fischer/

where i conclude and later confirmed by others that the murder of lexander Litvinenko was a joint effort of Britsich and Russian secret service. One of the possible conclusions is that Putin followed orders from Jacob Rothschild related to the Yukos case. After all these years it turns out that Yukos OIL, representing Russia's oil assets, is today in the hands of people with Zionist/Israeli interests.

i don't know who killed the ex-agent of KGB, i can't be sure about anything, but i really think it was not putin, because he wouldn't earn nothing with that, only hate, i mean, more hate from civilians....

i think that some way some how, those" magnats of coal, gas..." are the interestedes in this....i think that only they have something to win...

anna worked on one unknown journal, how this desmantle a huge revelation?

more than 300 journalists died...aren't we concerned about the others?

who won? who loses...?we have to think more about this things, nor just because is truly interesting, for me, that i'm portuguese, and here, nobody knows exactly what's going on russia! i'm interested, i want to be informed... thank you

Thought American Elements' website (www.americanelements.com)would a useful resource--info on Po 210 and 100s of other Isotopes, Nanomaterials, etc. (Disclaimer: I'm an engineer with the company!)


Thought American Elements' website (www.americanelements.com)would a useful resource--info on Po 210 and 100s of other Isotopes, Nanomaterials, etc. (Disclaimer: I'm an engineer with the company!)

Want to know why there is an X-KGB, X-Yukos oil executive "glowing in the dark" in a British morgue? Check out Venture Capitol. A new novel published by united writers press.

It is interesting how everyone is ready to make judgments and guesses without even trying to understand what happened. Here is a brief summary of related facts and common knowledge that is not always obvious from article in Western press.

Litvinenko used to work as a prison guard before 1989. After 1989 he was hire by KGB/FSB to work in the organized crime division. This is an equivalent of FBI organized crime division and has NOTHING to do with spying. So he was never a spy and never possessed any serious government secrets. During the collapse of the soviet union most KGB officers had to make a living somehow, because their official salaries were like $50/month. So most of them merged with organized crime. Litvinenko was well positioned to do just that as he worked in that department. This was a time of chaos. Russian streets looked like battle zones. There were daily mass shootouts between the rivaling gangs who competed for the right to pillage. This went on for a few years but obviously could not go on forever. So the more moderate and senior FSB officers decided that it was time to create some kind of order. That included arresting some of the more outrageous pillagers and making a case out of them. Among those pillagers was Litvinenko who controlled racketeering gangs that controlled several markets in Moscow. Litvenenko ran to London and claimed that he is a political refugee and to help his story claimed that he knows some dark secrets about Russian government. During the several years that he lived in London he never revealed any secrets simply because he did not know anything. He had no work skill and did not really want to work so he claimed that KGB told him to kill the ex-crime boss Beresovskiy and in return Beresovskiy paid for his apartment rental in London. Litvenenko was basically a bum in London and never had any money so he was forced run some errands for Beresovskiy for "peanuts" and make outrageous claims. You can judge the credibility of his claims for yourself. Some of his claims were that Putin is a pedophile, that Putin was involved in London bombings and possibly in 9/11, that Putin bombed his own cities, etc. The guy would say that Putin gang raped his mother if you paid him for it. Obviously no one in the world paid any attention to the idiot, including KGB. His stupid claims only discredited other more moderate critics of Putin. So if Putin had a list of top 50 enemies, Litvinenko would not be on it. As a matter of fact nobody in the world even heard of his name before he was poisoned.

Another critical fact that you must know is that there were three attempted murders (two were successful):Litvinenko, Politkovskaya, Gaidar (poisoned but survived). All three murder attempts are considered clearly linked by both Western and Russian press. That’s pretty much the only thing they agree on. What really connects all the cases is that all three people criticized Putin and all three happened RIGHT before a super-important Putins visit to a meeting with international (Western) leaders, when the last thing Putin needed was an international scandal of this proportion. Oh another thing killings had in common is gruesome style in which they were executed. Politkovskaya was shot 4 times from point blank range. Litvinenko was poisoned with rare radioactive substance that could not be possibly confused for anything else than radioactive substance (Just look at Litvinenko picture and you don't have to be an expert to say that this is not a work of cyanide or regular poison of that sort). Now that you have a more complete background information you can make a more educated guess of who killed Litvinenko. Oh one more thing both Berezovskiy and Lintvinenko were became very friendly with one of the leaders of Chechen terrorists Zakaev and Litvinenko became a Muslim recently. Months before Litveneko poisoning there were rumors that Chechen terrorists and Zakaev in particular were looking for radioactive materials on the black market to build a dirty bomb and continue their war in Chechnya.

blah blah blah

I am russian and from what i know whats going on from contacting people overseas it is defenetly not P. and it is def. has to do w/Berezovskiy. He is power more power than you people can imagine. P. is nothing comparing to B. Berezovskiy set everything up so perfectly hidden and will set thing up in the near future thats for sure to make it look like the big P. did it or anybody in Russia either KGB or FSB all the same anyway did it. L. must of known something B. didn't really wanted to be out there. ? Go figure.

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