December 04, 2006
Played?
The death of the Russian spy has some seriously weird twists:
That larger point being: how’d a Chechen sympathizer with a rumored history of nuclear smuggling who’s undergoing a religious awakening end up with polonium on him?
More, from the Guardian:
Elsewhere, forensic teams from the atomic weapons research establishment at Aldermaston are still trying to locate the source of the polonium. Evidence suggests the assassins struggled to contain the polonium with which they were working, leaking radioactive material wherever they went.Among the theories that remain open is that the poisonings were an accident that happened while Litvinenko tried to assemble a dirty bomb for Chechen rebels. Those who know him believe he was crazy enough to attempt such a thing and, in the past week, some have implicated him in the smuggling of nuclear materials from Russia.
This week should bring the results of the postmortem on Litvinenko. For the first time, detectives will know how much polonium he ingested. Vast quantities would point to a murder; smaller quantities possibly to accidental contamination. From Washington to London to Moscow, detectives, governments and spies are watching and waiting.
Posted by Karol at December 4, 2006 10:13 AM | TrackBack
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Yeah, wierder and wierder. But now that the trail definitely leads back to Russia it may yet have a few twists in store for us. With Russian politics/business sometimes it's hard to know who's killing whom without a scorecard.
Posted by: Eric at December 4, 2006 04:36 PMREad your post on Perezhilton.com about Paltrow. Perfect!
Posted by: cambel at December 4, 2006 05:15 PMIf this were actually a terrorist plot though, why on earth would they be shipping radioactive material into England, where most of these Chechen terrorists and paymasters-and their Arab handlers-are based?
You figure that there's enough nuclear material in Russia itself-and outlying territories-that they could get their hands on.
They were obviously able to clandestinely acquire enough Cesium-137 a few years ago.
Posted by: Gerard at December 4, 2006 08:09 PMWhere do you stand on this issue Karol; on the one hand the Chechens want to escape Russian imperialism (like your family). on the other, the Chechens are muslims.
Posted by: bryan at December 8, 2006 09:13 AM
