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The Litvinenko Plot Thickens
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| The Litvinenko Plot Thickens By Karl W B Schwarz November 27th, 2006 Many are pointing out that they are not buying the Alexander Litvinenko drama on TV. If someone wanted to get rid of him, they could disappear him and just be done with it. This has every appearance of being a PR and propaganda program embedded in a soap opera. When I see an issue brewing on the television and it is an international incident, the first question I ask myself is who benefits? Cui bono? ... |
David Duke? Are you joking?
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| Originally posted by Arbiter David Duke? Are you joking? |
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| Originally posted by star-traveller Well, apart from all that stuff he writes about jews, he has quite practical point of view and reasonable questions on what's happened. |
What part of that sentence seemed to be a joke for you?
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| Originally posted by star-traveller What part of that sentence seemed to be a joke for you? |
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| Originally posted by Shakka Uhm, pretty much all of it. What part of it was meant to be serious? |
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| Originally posted by star-traveller All of it. |
No way I'm even going to click that damned link 
You do realize David Duke is a racist white supremacist asshole right?
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| Originally posted by shaolin_Z You do realize David Duke is a racist white supremacist asshole right? |
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| Originally posted by Shakka You forgot former KKK leader too. Or grandmaster flash, poohbah or whatever they call it over in white sheetland. |
Here's a decent article on the spy case and yeah screw duke...
60 MINUTES: POISONED SPY PLANNED TO BLACKMAIL RUSSIAN BUSINESSMAN, SAYS AQUAINTANCE; WIDOW DENIES; FAMILY MONEY WOES REVEALED
Fri Jan 5 2006 12:15:11 ET
Ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was slowly poisoned to death last November in London and had plenty of time to accuse the Russian president he was so critical of for his demise, effectively declaring himself a political martyr. But he may have angered others who could also want him dead. An acquaintance of Litvinenko tells Bob Simon that he was planning to blackmail a wealthy Russian businessman � a charge Litvinenko�s widow, Marina, denies � before someone slipped him the polonium-210 that caused his slow and painful death. Simon�s investigation will be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, Jan. 7 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Julia Svetlichnaya was a Russian graduate student in London who spoke to Litvinenko about a book she was writing. She says he told her his blackmail plans. "He told me�he�s doing a project for blackmailing one of the Russian oligarchs�in U.K.," she tells Simon. "He thought that it was actually an okay thing to do because this particular person, as Litvinenko claimed, had a connection with... Putin," she says. But Litvinenko's widow says that wasn't her husband, whom she called Sasha. Though she says she didn�t know what he was up to, "Sasha wasn't a person [who would do that]."
Blackmail didn't surprise Svetlichnaya, however, because Litvinenko used to gather information about people when he was a loyal KGB agent before turning dissident. "He mentioned blackmail in a very casual manner. Every time I met him, he somehow told me he needs money, he needs to make a living, he�s got children to feed," Svetlichnaya says.
Svetlichnaya would not reveal the blackmail target's name, but said it wasn�t billionaire Boris Berezovsky, one of the most famous of the exiled Russian businessmen known as oligarchs. Berezovsky says Litvinenko twice saved his life in Russia, once when he disclosed that he had been ordered by the KGB -- then run by Putin -- to assassinate him. The billionaire had been supporting him ever since, saying Litvinenko once worked directly for him. Berezovsky received information he used in a campaign against Putin and his regime from Litvinenko, an effort Berezovsky says he spent $100 million on. He told Simon that he had cut back on his support of the ex-spy in the months prior to his death. He thinks his relationship with Litvinenko was a factor his death. "Unfortunately, I should say yes," Berezovsky tells Simon. He even believes that had Litvinenko not been targeted, it would have been him who was killed.
Berezovsky would not elaborate on who wanted Litvinenko or him dead, but said this about the Russian intelligence agency and President Putin. "[Putin was].. absolutely bandit, from my point of view, yeah, and they...decide to kill [Litvinenko]." When asked by Simon if "they" was Russian intelligence, Berezovsky said he did not want to hurt efforts to investigate the crime, but did say, "I might just use the English joke. If it looks like duck and quack like duck, it means duck."
Marina Litvinenko was more definitive on whether President Putin had a hand in her husband's death. "I can't say it's [Putin's] order, but without his knowledge, it couldn't happen," she tells Simon.
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Anyone who uses David Duke as a credible source really needs to get their money back from the doctor that performed the lobotomy.
MrS
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| Originally posted by MrSquirrel Anyone who uses David Duke as a credible source really needs to get their money back from the doctor that performed the lobotomy. MrS |
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| Poisoning of ex-agent sets off alarm bells Nuclear regulators fear wider attempt using radioactive polonium-210 By Peter Finn Updated: 2:48 a.m. ET Jan. 7, 2007 MOSCOW - Ninety-seven percent of the legal production of one of the world's rarest industrial products -- the intensely radioactive isotope polonium-210 -- takes place at a closely guarded nuclear reactor near the Volga River 450 miles southeast of Moscow. In an average year, about three ounces of the substance is made at the Avangard facility, a former nuclear weapons plant, then sold under strict controls to Russian and foreign companies that prize it for its abilities to reduce static electricity. This fall, a microscopic quantity of polonium-210, from somewhere, found its way into the body of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian internal security agent living in London. He died an agonizing death in a hospital 22 days later. ... Worldwide, polonium has been lost or stolen in at least 15 known incidents before 2006, most of them in the United States, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog based in Vienna. ... |
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