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Olle Larsson

As for the conjectures about how it was that the Kremlin was caught essentially red-handed assassinating a British citizen on British soil, well, conjecture is conjecture, rumination and nothing more.

It is plausible that a message was being sent to others, in the most public of ways, not to publicize the crimes of the Kremlin. This would not, after all, be the first time something of this type has been done by the rulers of Russia.

It is plausible that a message was being sent to the West that the next terrorist attacks are to be nuclear.

It is plausible that Litvinenko’s death was meant to appear to have been from natural causes, that detection of the polonium-210 was not thought to have been likely or even possible by the assassins because they thought he would die much quicker than he did.

It is plausible that, given the position of strength (a fact which I will not go into in this post for the reason that it would require, in effect, that I teach you a great deal about the subjects of Russian strategic superiority, strategy, tactics, and other things which I don’t have the time to go into right now) that Russia commands, Russia did not care whether they were caught in the act or not. In other words, Russia is now in a position in which its leaders no longer have to rely on deception, and is free to begin openly bullying the world the same way it does its own population.

You and certain others here may scoff at the things I have revealed, either because you are in denial, or because you wish to maintain the grand fiction, but to others what I’ve said will be a revelation, and they will begin their own inquiry. They will begin to wonder if they were deceived, if Reagan, Thatcher, and all of the West was deceived. And if they dig a little, they will know that they were, and they will wonder why it is that you are carrying water for murderers.

Litvinenko was killed because he exposed the fact, in great and convincing detail, that FSB agents, acting on orders from the Kremlin, blew up apartment buildings in Moscow and other cities in order to start two Chechen wars, so that fictional democracy in Russia would bring to power the one of their own, Vladimir Putin.

Your denials ring hollow.

Also, to quote your own reference “Polonium-210 is a synthetic element that has a half-life of 138 days as it gradually transforms into lead.” This shows that the detectability had nothing to do with Litvinenko’s “extraordinary health.” Additionally, authorities would not have stopped looking for causes if he died. Have you heard of an autopsy? It would still have been discovered after his death.

Do you know that your source on Russian technology, Oleg Gordievsky, defected more than 20 years ago? Do you think that he is actually aware of the technology available today in Russia? Also, as a defector he likely has a grudge against Russia, so any information that cannot be validated by other sources is not completely reliable.

I am not disputing any of the facts of the case — Litvinenko died a horrid death; the cause of which was nearly undiscovered. I only disagree with your speculations that you state as facts. You seem to simply be using this case to support the conspiracy theory that you already believed.

Ahem, how ’bout that Mosnews? Pity ain’t it.

Here is an excerpt from an article which will clarify the situation:

Oleg Gordievsky, the most senior KGB agent ever to defect to Britain, said they wanted to “demonstrate something new”.[58] Another suggestion by Gordievsky, is that the poisoners were unaware that technology existed to detect traces left by polonium-210: “Did you know that polonium-210 leaves traces? I didn’t. And no one did. (…) what they didn’t know was that this equipment, this technology exists in the West – they didn’t know that, and that was where they miscalculated.”[59]

Another reason for choosing polonium-210 may have been to suggest the likely involvement of Russia or at least of some state. On the other hand, it is also possible that it was thought the substance would never be detected. Philip Walker, professor of physics at the University of Surrey, commented: “This seems to have been a substance carefully chosen for its ability to be hard to detect in a person who has ingested it.”[60]” http://www.answers.com/topic/alexander-litvinenko-poisoning

Litvinenko was poisoned on or about November 1. Had he promptly died, as was expected by his Kremlin assassins, there is little likelihood that the public would have been made aware that his death was the result of anything other than the onset of a fast-acting cancer. As it happened, Litvinenko lived long enough to get his story to the press, which published his plight on November 18. It is only because Litvinenko lived long enough to get the press involved that we know what we know today.

If you doubt what I say, I suggest you click the link provided, and visit the many other sites which provide extensive detail about polonium-210, all of which should be as available to you as they are me, unless of course you reside in a country which restricts access to such information.

Let me get this straight… You actually believe that Litvinenko’s physical health actually changed the half life of a radio active material? And his strong health caused the polonium to last longer in his system?

That is the biggest load of crap that I have read, well, since your previous post about the collapse of the Soviet Union being a part of the Russian plan for world domination.

Please keep posting because I am finding this humorous.

Alexander Litvinenko was murdered for what he wrote, Michael. You know that, and you also know that the book is banned in Russia. You also know how to use a search engine. One more thing you know how to do is ruin what small amount of credibility you had with sophistry.

I understand that you’re a Putin supporter, and I’ll even give you the benefit of the doubt by saying that you once naively believed that he was a good man who would do good things for Russia, just as so many believed the same about Hitler and what he would do for Germany. But now the gig is up.

Puting BS aside:

Does Litvinenko have a book of any type out? If so, is it actually banned in Russia? If so, what’s the stated reason if any?