Saturday, November 18, 2006
What year is it again?
will the real Mister Bond please call your office
Alexander Litvinenko, an ex-KGB colonel who fled the current Russian regime to claim asylum in Britain, is under armed police guard in hospital.
Sources have confirmed that the Russian was taken suddenly and dangerously ill on November 1 while investigating the recent murder of dissident Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Mr Litvinenko was poisoned following a clandestine meeting with an associate at a sushi bar in London’s Piccadilly.
The ex-KGB man was given documents which claimed to name Ms Politkovskaya’s killers. According to the papers, she was murdered by four members of President Vladimir Putin’s federal security service, known as the FSB. A source close to Mr Litvinenko claimed he had been the victim of a revenge attack by the increasingly hard-line Russian regime.
...Thallium - an odourless, colourless poison - can be lethal even in doses of less than a gram.
...In 1998, shortly after Mr Putin was appointed head of the FSB, he invited Mr Litvinenko to meet him. Mr Litvinenko has described how he used the occasion to tell Mr Putin about corrupt practices in the organisation. The meeting was cut short and he was suspended.
In November that year he went public with his claims - including the bombshell allegation that the FSB had plotted to kill the business tycoon Boris Berezovsky. From that point on, Mr Litvinenko was in and out of jail, facing corruption charges, until he fled to Britain.
Plus ça change ...
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