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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Suave on November 24, 2006, 11:18:20 PM
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"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.
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The press here is giving it about as much press as other assassinations, including the one he was investigating.
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russians killing other russians over political motives, some things will never change :rolleyes:
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in russia, rat poisons YOU!!!:eek: :O :O :O :O :D :D :D :rofl :rofl
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Originally posted by Suave
Oh and why polonium-210?
Any old photographers/lab techs recall this substance?
IIRC, it was impregnated on that strip of metal under the grate on those anti static neg brushes.
Guess so:
http://www.2spi.com/catalog/photo/statmaster.shtml
Some additional words about safety:
We must not lose sight of the fact that Po210 is highly toxic, emits alpha particles and is regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Fortunately, the matrix in which it is encased, renders probability of exposure extremely small unless the matrix is damaged by abration or grinding so as to generate dust particles that may be inhaled.
Looks like just about anybody can get hold of small amounts of this stuff.
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So why Polonium instead of Risin?
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He was also a recent convert to the "religion of peace"
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Originally posted by Flatbar
Looks like just about anybody can get hold of small amounts of this stuff.
Yeah, maybe that's why it was used. Anybody could have gotton it, but how many had a motive to kill this guy, and out of those people, how many would have chosen it?