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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,708 posts)
Sat Dec 10, 2016, 10:48 AM Dec 2016

Remember when Putin poisoned one of his opponents and messed up his face.




Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ва́льтерович Литвине́нко; IPA: ; 30 August 1962 (4 December 1962 by father's account)– 23 November 2006) was a former officer of the Russian FSB secret service who specialised in tackling organised crime – according to US diplomats, Litvinenko coined the phrase Mafia state. In November 1998, Litvinenko and several other FSB officers publicly accused their superiors of ordering the assassination of the Russian tycoon and oligarch Boris Berezovsky. Litvinenko was arrested the following March on charges of exceeding the authority of his position. He was acquitted in November 1999 but re-arrested before the charges were again dismissed in 2000. He fled with his family to London and was granted asylum in the United Kingdom, where he worked as a journalist, writer and consultant for the British intelligence services.

During his time in London, Litvinenko wrote two books, Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within (Which is banned from publication in Russia by the way) and Lubyanka Criminal Group, wherein he accused the Russian secret services of staging the Russian apartment bombings and other terrorism acts in an effort to bring Vladimir Putin to power. He also accused Putin of ordering the murder in October 2006 of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

On 1 November 2006, Litvinenko suddenly fell ill and was hospitalised in what was established as a case of poisoning by radioactive polonium-210 which resulted in his death on 23 November. He became the first known victim of lethal Polonium 210-induced acute radiation syndrome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko














I wouldn't put that past certain people who are about to be American leaders.
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Remember when Putin poisoned one of his opponents and messed up his face. (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 OP
I wouldn't either. Island Blue Dec 2016 #1

Island Blue

(5,815 posts)
1. I wouldn't either.
Sat Dec 10, 2016, 11:01 AM
Dec 2016

On the other hand, if the Putin Puppet doesn't do what his Russian masters command him to do, the same fate could befall him.

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