Man detained over spy poisoning

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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20865991-2703,00.html

Correspondents in London
December 04, 2006
BRITAIN'S domestic security service MI5 has detained a man thought to have significant information about the apparent radiation death of Alexander Litvinenko, newspaper reports said yesterday.
The reports quoted an unnamed senior government source saying the man was taken into custody in east central England last week.

"MI5 don't arrest people," an unidentified security source said. "When people are detained by the security services it is because they have come forward to us to give us information."

There was no immediate word from the British authorities on the report.

It is thought the former Russian spy might have been killed in London after a deal that went wrong with associates involved in the ruthless world of Russian business.

According to security sources, investigators are looking at the former spy's dealings with Russian businessmen involved in the lucrative energy sector and the shadowy world of private security. "We are looking at a very long list of Litvinenko's friends and foes since he has been in London," one source said.

The list includes exotic figures ranging from billionaire businessmen, former Kremlin spies and KGB agents to underworld bosses.

[LTR]

1. I wonder if all of this will be traced back to Putin

You know, I've noticed just by glancing that threads about this whole spy poisoning/execution thing tend to get few, if any responses. I posted the LBN article last week about the radioactive substance found on planes and it got no responses whatsoever.

Quite frankly, I'm shocked, since I myself find this whole spy thing to be both fascinating and scary. Scary in that it almost looks like the Kremlin (or people loyal to Putin) are trying to off the Russian government's enemies. Look at Viktor Yushchenko, the current pro-Western president of the Ukraine. He survived a vicious poisoning attack, and was disfigured by it.



I predict this whole thing will lead back to Putin's government, and turmoil will ensue. His government could eventually collapse over this, or he will consolidate more power. This is a story worth keeping an eye on.

[seemslikeadream]

2. YES Viktor Yushchenko,

Poison spy probe moves to Moscow
Posted by seemslikeadream on Mon Dec-04-06 01:49 AM

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6256209,00.html

Press Association
Sunday December 3, 2006 6:38 PM


Detectives investigating the death of ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko are planning to fly to Moscow in their hunt for clues into the dissident's poisoning, sources confirmed

It has also emerged that anti-terror police from Scotland Yard have already taken the investigation to the USA where they are thought to have interviewed a key figure behind the Ukrainian "Orange Revolution" of 2004.

Mr Litvinenko, a fierce critic of president Vladimir Putin, died of radiation poisoning last month, convinced that he had been the victim of a Russian murder plot.

A second man has tested positive for the deadly radioactive substance polonium 210 which is believed to have killed Mr Litvinenko.

Dose in Litvinenko would have cost £20m
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2845863

Anti-terrorism unit takes over investigation into poisoned spy
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2624773

Key ministers sacked in Ukraine
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2636813

Orange Revolution party squeezed out
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2545624

Yushchenko was poisoned with Russian, U.S. or U.K.-made dioxin
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2501847

CNN Breaking: Doctors say Yushchenko poisoned by dioxins
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1063264

AP: Yushchenko Sure Gov't Poisoned Him
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1076452

Ukraine's Yushchenko blasts govt over fuel crisis
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1484141

Anger as US backs brutal regime
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1473236

Russia spy chief says foreigners plotting uprisings
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1466629

Yushchenko's party 3rd as Orange Revolution fractures
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2189421

Russia Halts Natural Gas Sales to Ukraine
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2015488

Ukraine and Russia go to brink over huge gas price rise
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2007527

[thingfisher]

3. I read an article today

that suggested that Litvinenko was prepared to blackmail some former officials with documents that he had access to. It is very posible that Mr. Litvinenko had enemies of several stripes who would benefit from his demise.

The whole world of super secret itelligence is scary in that you have thousands of people who are trained in the most nefarious skills imaginable and who do not disregard any means to attain their ends. When such people "retire" it would seem that they do so with their warped morality intact. Many such no doubt have acces to a lot of information that would be valubale to some and detrimental to others. This kind of internecene warfare seems more like a "mafia" war than anything else.