Who said the Cold War was over?
Alexander Litvinenko, the Russian spy renowned for his criticisms of President Putin, died this evening in a London hospital from unknown poisons.
The Kremlin denies that it had anything to do with his untimely death, which may be correct, but is not a particularly satisfying answer to the mystery of how Litvinenko died. If not the Kremlin, then who?
The latest hypothesis is that he was poisoned with Radioactive Thallium. He could have been given this by anyone who wanted him dead; since he was ex-KGB, there could have been a long list of people wanting him dead. However, we also know that he was researching the death of an anti-Putin Russian journalist, Anna Politkovskaya, who was gunned down in her Moscow flat on October 7th.
It could be a coincidence that two vocal critics of Putin got axed in such a short span of time ... but I doubt it. Russia has been flexing its muscles in many ways (oil markets to name but one); it would not surprise me if the Kremlin reached out to silence its traitors.
Posted By Peter
The Kremlin denies that it had anything to do with his untimely death, which may be correct, but is not a particularly satisfying answer to the mystery of how Litvinenko died. If not the Kremlin, then who?
The latest hypothesis is that he was poisoned with Radioactive Thallium. He could have been given this by anyone who wanted him dead; since he was ex-KGB, there could have been a long list of people wanting him dead. However, we also know that he was researching the death of an anti-Putin Russian journalist, Anna Politkovskaya, who was gunned down in her Moscow flat on October 7th.
It could be a coincidence that two vocal critics of Putin got axed in such a short span of time ... but I doubt it. Russia has been flexing its muscles in many ways (oil markets to name but one); it would not surprise me if the Kremlin reached out to silence its traitors.
Posted By Peter
posted by PWN at 3:35 PM
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