Spy's assassins may have poisoned themselves - FBI,

[applegrove]

Spy's assassins may have poisoned themselves - FBI

· Killers 'were not trained' in handling polonium-219
· Method possibly meant to send message to emigres

Ian Cobain, Jeevan Vasagar, Tom Parfitt in Moscow
Saturday December 9, 2006
The Guardian


"The assassins who poisoned Alexander Litvinenko in a London hotel bar may have exposed themselves to a potentially fatal dose of radioactivity, according to an FBI assessment of the killing.
Tests which have revealed a trail of polonium-210 across more than a dozen locations around the capital suggest the killers could have ingested substantial amounts of the isotope.

Seven staff at the Pine Bar of the Millennium Hotel on Grosvenor Square have been poisoned with small amounts of polonium-210, along with at least two business associates of the Russian ex-spy, possibly after it had been dissolved in a solution which would have evaporated during the poisoning.

...................SNIP"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,1968204,00.html

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. hmmm... Karma?

or just incompetence. :shrug:



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* Uberpower: The Imperial Temptation of America
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