Death of Alexander Litvinenko

[quote]pookie wrote:
Turns out I might have to revise my views on polonium 210 being only accessible to government-type agencies.

You can apparently order the stuff on the web: IoT recent news | page 1 of 39 | InformationWeek

It’s the type of polonium that’s not dangerous radioactively, but deadly if swallowed. Seems to fit the bill.

Maybe Putin really has nothing to do with it… Great way to make him look guilty though.
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If you look at the website of the company referenced, they point out that one would need 15,000 orders worth in order to have a poisonous quantity.

"Several other Russians who investigated the 1999 bombings also have been killed, their murders so far unsolved. Legislator Sergei Yushenkov, who had set up an independent panel to investigate the bombings, was shot and killed in 2003. Later that year, another legislator and member of the panel, Yuri Shchekochikhin died in a Moscow hospital after contracting an illness that has yet to be explained.

Shchekochikhin also was a high-ranking editor of the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, one of the few remaining forums for dissenters in Russia. Last month, Anna Politkovskaya, a famed Novaya Gazeta journalist who had criticized Putin and the war in Chechnya and was investigating government corruption, was shot to death in Moscow. At the time of his poisoning, Litvinenko was investigating Politkovskaya’s slaying. On his deathbed, in a London hospital, he blamed Putin for killing him."

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/29/POISON.TMP

Former Russian acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar?

I’m going to go way out on a limb here and guess that his wife and her Italian boyfriend did it.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061201/ap_on_re_eu/britain_poisoned_spy_131