"You may succeed in silencing me but that silence comes at a price. You have shown yourself to be as barbaric and ruthless as your most hostile critics have claimed"
Litvinenko had worked for the KGB and then the Federal Security Service until he publicly accused his superiors in 1998 of ordering him to kill Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky. He spent nine months in jail on charges of abuse of office, but was later acquitted and moved to Britain.
Intruiging story. Obviously I think Putin could've easily prevented the killing, but I don't fault him for not breaking protocol. I find Litvinenko's reasons for leaving the security service suspect. The skeptic in me says he was, or planned to be, paid nicely from Berezovsky.
What does bother me is that this story gets so much more press than the stories of so many journalists murdered in russia in the last few years.
Oh and why polonium-210? At least with ricin they could pass it off on bulgaria or some other state.
