Guardian on Litvinenko Poisoning: "Only the state would have access to that material".

[BurtWorm]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,1961546,00.html

Litvinenko was victim of 'Russian rogue agents'


Sandra Laville and Richard Norton-Taylor
Friday December 1, 2006
The Guardian

British intelligence sources increasingly suspect that Alexander Litvinenko, the former spy killed with a radioactive poison, was the victim of a plot involving "rogue elements" within the Russian state, the Guardian has learned.

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Explaining the increasing belief that Mr Litvinenko's death involved Russian state elements, one official said yesterday: "Only the state would have access to that material".

Officials now go so far as to say that the involvement of individuals within the FSB in the affair is "probable". But they insist that it is far from definite and the evidence is still circumstantial.

Intelligence sources do not rule out the possibility that the perpetrators were "rogue elements" either still in the FSB or former members of it.

Though police anti-terrorist officers are in charge of the operation, Whitehall officials said MI5 and MI6 were helping. The British embassy in Moscow and the Russian embassy in London are also involved.

[Redstone]

1. Absolutely NOT true. You can go to the camera store and buy a Static Master

brush for cleaning film, and guess what? It has polonium in it to "pull" the dust off the film.

Buy enough of them, and you can poison someone.

Redstone

[BurtWorm]

2. How many would you have to buy to kill someone?

:shrug:

[hvn_nbr_2]

3. I can't even think of a subject line for this silly post

Why, yes, Ms. Camera Department Clerk, I really want to buy 100000 Static Masters. You see, my film has a whole lot of dust from sitting in the basement for years. Oh, and it might be a good idea not to breath a word of this to Scotland Yard, if you know what I mean.

[BurtWorm]

4. That's kind of what was going through my mind.

I didn't want to say it, though. ;)

[Redstone]

7. No, it wouldn't take a million. You can save your sarcasm.

Redstone

[Redstone]

5. I'd guess 25 or so, if it were ingested.

Redstone

[hopein08]

6. 15,000 orders costing $1 million would be enough to kill someone

Isotope linked to death available online

Not exactly practical.