Who's killing Kremlin critics?
Published Thu, Dec 7 2006 3:08 PM
Technorati Tags: News and Politics
From the Associated Press via The Seattle Post Intelligencer:
In Moscow, Russian prosecutors opened their own investigation into the former KGB agent's poisoning death, and authorities said a key figure was ill with symptoms related to polonium-210, the highly radioactive substance that killed Litvinenko.
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From his deathbed, Litvinenko blamed his fate on Russian President Vladimir Putin - a charge that Kremlin officials have called "nonsense." Traces of polonium-210 were found in Litvinenko's body after his Nov. 23 death.
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The opening of a criminal case in Moscow would allow suspects in the Litvinenko case to be prosecuted in Russia. Officials there previously have said that Russia would not allow the extradition of any suspects in the death.
The Russian Prosecutor General's office also said it had opened a criminal investigation into the attempted killing of Dmitry Kovtun, a former agent who met Litvinenko in the Millennium Hotel on Nov. 1, hours before Litvinenko became fatally ill.
In the latest twist in the case, Russian officials said Kovtun, has developed an illness connected with polonium-210,
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Kovtun and Lugovoi have told reporters in Moscow that someone is trying to frame them in Litvinenko's death.
Lugovoi was at one point a bodyguard for former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, who also fell sick recently in Ireland with an illness that Russian doctors have been unable to diagnose. On Thursday, Britain's Financial Times and the Russian newspaper Vedomosti published a letter written by Gaidar with the headline: "I was poisoned and Russia's political enemies were surely behind it."
"Most likely ... some obvious or hidden adversaries of the Russian authorities stand behind the scenes of this event, those who are interested in further radical deterioration of relations between Russia and the West," Gaidar wrote in the letter.
Now that's an interesting speculation isn't it? All of the people that have been poisoned or murdered in this continuing saga have been pro-western critics of the Kremlin. Could it be that "Russia's political enemies" are actually Russian officials in the Kremlin?
The opening of a criminal investigation, in Russia, of the murder of a British citizen, that took place in Great Britain seems to me to be a way to prevent the truth behind these incidents from ever reaching the Western media. After all, Russian officials have promised to block the extradition of anyone British authorities determine to be a suspect.
The Russians claim to be cooperating in the investigation, but they have refused to allow anyone connected with the case to be interviewed by British investigators without a Russian official present. I wonder if we'll ever find out who really murdered Alexander Litvinenko and Anna Politkovskaya. Whoever did it has recklessly endangered thousands of people by using a highly radioactive substance to commit the murder.
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