Posted by
Dawnsblood on Friday, November 24, 2006 5:51:05 PM
In a
big way:
What’s the significance of Polonium-210 having been found in his system? Captain Ed explains:
One does not find polonium just laying around somewhere;
it’s rather rare, and difficult to produce in any quantity. However,
small quantities are all that are needed for poisoning someone, as the
maximum safe ingested dose is 0.03 microcurie. It’s 25 billion
times more poisonous than hydrocyanic acid. Anyone who attempted to
deploy this as an assassin’s weapon has to have a lot of expertise in
handling polonium — which again strongly indicates a government
assassin at work. It practically convicts Putin by its use.
British cops have found traces of it at his home, in a sushi bar he visited on November 1, and at a hotel bar he patronized earlier that same day — where he met a former KGB agent and two associates.
On the morning of Nov. 1, the former agent met with
another former KGB spy Andrei Lugovoy — who had come to watch the
Russian soccer team CSKA Moscow — and two other men he had never met
before.
Drinking a cup of tea the men had ordered,
Litvinenko discussed a joint business venture and said he was homesick
for Russia. Friends say it was his patriotism coupled with a sense of
false protection from his British asylum that prompted him to reach out
to potential Russian dissenters who might have bolstered allegations
that Putin’s government was involved in corruption in the spy service.