Litvinenko's killers used polonium worth $10m to give massive overdose

[applegrove]

Litvinenko's killers used polonium worth $10m to give massive overdose
Daniel McGrory and Tony Halpin in Moscow
The Times December 18, 2006

Dose ten times the lethal level
Investigators are baffled by amount

'British investigators believe that Alexander Litvinenko’s killers used more than $10 million of polonium-210 to poison him. Preliminary findings from the post mortem examination on the former KGB spy suggest that he was given more than ten times the lethal dose.
Police do not know why the assassins used so much of the polonium-210, and are investigating whether the poison was part of a consignment to be sold on the black market.

They believe that whoever orchestrated the plot knew of its effects, but are unsure whether the massive amount was used to send a message — it made it easier for British scientists to detect — or is evidence of a clumsy operation.

A British security source said yesterday: “You can’t buy this much off the internet or steal it from a laboratory without raising an alarm so the only two plausible explanations for the source are that it was obtained from a nuclear reactor or very well connected black market smugglers.”

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

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2509789,00.html

[Taverner]

1. This tells us they REALLY wanted him dead

$10 million worth of Polonium...wow

[hippiechick]

2. HUH ?

"...You can’t buy this much off the internet ..."

Does that mean you can buy SOME OF IT off the internet ??? :wow:



:wtf:

[Hardrada]

4. Yes, but you have to use Paypal.

[dsc]

12. It is used in anti static brushes

among other things. It can be bought in very small quantities on the internet in those products.

[applegrove]

3. That is personal.

[Jack Rabbit]

5. It's political

Nobody spends that kind of money to off one man unless its the government.

Organized criminals would have been messier about it and just let the public blame Putin. The assassins wanted this to look like something other than an assassination.

[peacetalksforall]

6. At first glance - it may be the most expensive death of a single

person - then, thought perhaps JFK's death cost more - paying off people for their contributions, then shutting them up, buying photographs, killing Tippit and Oswald and some other deaths that followed. Then, when you add the costs to taxpayers for the funeral, Warren Commission, etc. Still angry - would probably be less so if the people who were around for his death weren't still calling the shots today.

[applegrove]

7. Please. Let's not get into that discussion. JFK was killed by a pipsqueek.

End of story for me.

[peacetalksforall]

9. Imagine - a pipsqueek that can take an inferior rifle and make

it's bullets change direction at angles.

The angles remind me of the angles of the mapping of the routes of 'hijacked' aircraft on 9-11.

[applegrove]

10. How many more theories can you put in my op?

[thingfisher]

8. if the people who were around for his death weren't still calling the shots today.

That is what I find so horrible about those who insist that the JFK murder is old news. The political power that was seize back then is still in the hands of those who did the crime.

People who think he was shot by a "pipsqueek" are ignorant of the fact that a comgressional inquiry concluded that the murder was a conspiracy of more than one man.

It still pisses me off.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. We went through this a couple of weeks ago

when another British newspaper estimated the cost as £20 million. MadHound explained that taking the United Nuclear retail price and multiplying it is pretty meaningless, both because of their markup, and the way you produce polonium 210 in a reactor. Basically, if you want a large amount in one go, you can produce it much more cheaply than the tiny amounts United Nuclear sell to people.

[applegrove]

13. I didn't know we had a price tag. That clarifies it quite a bit. I thought

I was just updating the discussion.