Did Putin order the murder of a Russian spy?

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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-19647226

I don't think this has ever been in doubt.

You don't freelance an operation like that with an exotic substance like that.

People who get on the wrong side of Putin have a way of ending up dead. Nobody doubts that he directs this.

Putin has murdered many people, but I think this one, like Viktor Yushchenko's murder with exotic toxins in the Ukraine, was done in a particularly grisly, showy way to make a point. Like the muder of Anna Politkovskaya by FSB and former FSB officers, Putin was making it very clear that those who opposed him would be eliminated.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/03/europe/ru ... n-critics/

The real question is not did he do it, but how can he be brought to justice? It's impossible by conventional means. Maybe someone will put some polonium in his drink one day.

The thing that has always pissed me off about this was that they exposed a lot of people in London to radiation. How would Daesh be punished if they launched a similar radiological attack? Should the message go out to Iran and North Korea that this kind of thing is fine as long as you have nukes and act like a psychopath?

Somehow, I don't have confidence that Cameron has anything like the intestinal fortitude needed to handle a problem like this.

If he didn't order it, then he may have given his tacit endorsement.

Polonium 210 is a radioactive substance that is produced only in supernova explosions, nuclear reactors, and particle accelerators, where irradiating bismuth with high-energy neutrons or protons yields polonium. About 100 grams are produced each year, practically all of it in Russia. It is not exactly something that anyone can pick up at the neighborhood drugstore.

Thus, someone with a lot of money and influence in or on the Russian government gave the order. Someone with a grudge, perhaps - a personal motive for killing someone in a painful way over the course of a week. Someone who acts with impunity, and without fear of reprisal from the victim's family.

All of that does narrow down the list of suspects to just a few highly-place officials in the Russian government.

There is no way to determine who killed really Litvinenko, you can assume but he was involved with multiple intelligence agencies and still was maintaining contact with parts of the FSB iirc as well as some dangerous non-state figures. When you play that game, just like if you play the drug game on the corners, then you should expect to get whacked. It would be no different if a CIA agent went rogue with state secrets, most Americans would consider them a traitor who signed their own death warrant. Who was Litvinenko worth dead more to? Maybe not as obvious as you think, who is still talking about the guy?

Also, it's funny that we talk about this murder but you do know that there have a been a lot of funny deaths of certain people in the United States as well? Lot of one car crashes and "suicides" deep in the woods, Look up Michael Hastings and what immediately proceeded his death, he knew they were after him and it was because he strayed to close to the truth.

Evidence doesn't really count for much when we're talking intelligence agencies and regardless if it was done under the orders of the FSB, Litvinenko was considered a traitor who's death is only sympathetic for which the manner of how he died. Would people care if somebody plugged him walking home from the pub? Litvinenko's family said he was working for M16 and it has been accused that he outed the names of undercover Russian spies in the UK, I'm sure he knew the risks of what he was doing. His death was meant to be a public spectacle whoever did it, it's still being used as a propaganda piece by the west who have gotten many more miles out of his death than any other information they got from him when he was alive but I don't think it should surprise anyone that a turncoat Russian spy got killed either.

The Federal Security Service is one of the successor organisations of the Soviet Committee of State Security (KGB). Following the attempted coup of 1991—in which some KGB units as well as the KGB head Vladimir Kryuchkov played a major part—the KGB was dismantled and ceased to exist from November 1991.According to some unofficial sources since 1999, the FSB has also been tasked with the intelligence-gathering on the territory of the CIS countries

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