An unknown number of Londoners might have been put at risk by the 2006 poisoning of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko with a radioactive isotope, which amounted to "a nuclear attack on the streets" of the British capital, an inquiry heard on Thursday.
Kremlin critic Litvinenko died weeks after drinking green tea laced with polonium-210 at London's plush Millennium hotel. From his deathbed he accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering his killing but the Kremlin has always denied any role.
"We will never know how dangerous the exposure of polonium to the public at large will be and what long term effects will be visited upon Londoners," Richard Horwell, the lawyer acting for London police, said in closing remarks to a British public inquiry into the death.
"Anyone who arranges for polonium-210 to be brought into a city center does so without any regard for human life. Mr Emmerson (the lawyer representing Litvinenko's widow Marina) has said … this was a nuclear attack on the streets of London. That comment is justified."
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http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/impact-of-litvinenko-poisoning-equal-to-nuclear-attack--inquiry/526504.html
This poisoning occurred nine years ago. Why the sudden interest? All in support of the new "cold war" on Russia?
And why did a similar investigation of the poisoning of Yasser Arafat fall through the cracks? All because no one has the balls to accuse the Israelis of murder?
By the way, Litvinenko's claims that FSB was behind the bombings in Russia lent credence to similar claims about 9/11. For this reason the US also had motive (and the means) to kill him in this manner.
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