The AP reports (via Yahoo) that the British government says that a radioactive substance killed Alexander Litvinenko.
The Health Protection Agency said the radioactive element polonium-210, which is extremely hard to detect, had been found in Litvinenko’s urine.
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The agency’s chief executive, Pat Troop, said that the high level indicated Litvinenko “would either have to have eaten it, inhaled it or taken it in through a wound.”
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Peter Clarke, head of London’s anti-terrorist police, said officers and military radiation experts were searching several locations in London. Traces of radiation had been found at Litvinenko’s north London house, a sushi bar where he met a contact Nov. 1, the day he fell ill and a hotel he visited earlier that day, he said.The restaurant and part of the hotel were closed during a police search, with officers removing materials in heavy metal boxes.
Clarke said extensive tests by forensic toxicologists on behalf of police — which began before Litvinenko’s death — had on Friday confirmed the presence of Polonium-210.
“There is no risk to the public unless they came into close contact with the men or their meals,” said Katherine Lewis, a spokeswoman for the Health Protection Agency.
Joe worded it perfectly earlier today when he wrote, “it all must be a coincidence. And Litvinenko, on his deathbed, was just being paranoid and was pushing a political agenda.
Right?“
Right.
Tsar Putin I seems to be less and less concerned with his image. At one time he at least tried to keep up appearances. The mask of respectability is coming off.
Let me rephrase that: he already took his mask off. Only the blind cannot see his true face.
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