Dec 08 2006
Zakayev Destroys Case For Putin Assassination Order
Leave it to the bungling Polonium smugglers to shoot off their mouths again and actually make the case against a Putin assassination hit on Litvinenko as they try to make the opposite point:
Akhmed Zakayev, a former Chechen resistance leader now exiled in London, told The Independent: “There wouldn’t have been such a scandal surrounding Litvinenko’s death if polonium had not been found in his body. If he had been killed by any other means  a car accident, a gunshot, anything  it would have been a story for a day. Russia now has to wipe its image clean of polonium.”
Zakayev knows he has much of the gullible liberal media (is there any other kind in the UK?) buying into the assassination = theory even though it has become so ludicrous that it has to ignore all the Polonium trails made prior to the Millenium Hotel Bar so as to try and stay relevant. But this again demonstrates what I have been saying all along – the Litvinenko deathbed claim (which never saw the light of day until he died and it had to be used) was nothing more than a diversionary bit of PR theatre. The smugglers screwed up and contaminated themselves, and needed some other media story to divert attention from themselves. Is it my falt the media sees nothing conflicted in the fact there are three hotels contaminated in what appears to be Polonium shipments coming into London on Oct 16, 25 and 31st? That someone spent 30+ million euros to smuggle maybe 100 times the amount needed to ‘silence’ Litvinenko? And now we have Zakayev, leader of Chechen extremists hell bent on destroying Russia and who just yesterday said the West would reap a ‘dirty bomb’ for their dealings with Putin, saying now Russia must cleanse itself of the Polonium?
Sorry Ahmed – but I am not taking the bait. You and your buddies need to explain why there was Polonium 210 in your car and Berezovsky’s office. You are the one who has Polonium 210 on your person – literally. Someone needs to remind the Independent that it was Berezovsky who initiated the PR campaign when it was learned that Litvinenko had been contaminated by a nuclear material.
WOW. Check this out about the apartment in Hamburg:
Now tell me … how do they go into an apartment and determine that a source of radiation was there in the past but is no longer there? Was there something left behind, such as a radiation meter or protective gear? If so it sure looks even more like smuggling to me.
Good article
http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,1968211,00.html
One possibility is to observe biological material in the apartment. They would show microscopically detectable damage.
The person could be the thing that was the source no? The radiation could remain after the person or thing left – I don’t know how you could know the difference – maybe by amount in one location with no other trail around the place.
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2060004.ece
I don’t see Lugovoi being a state assassin. I do see him being Boris’ hit man if they needed to get rid of Litvinenko in order to provide a cover for the polonium.
“The person could be the thing that was the source no? The radiation could remain after the person or thing left -”
No, they didn’t find any radiation only evidence that there had been radiation. This would be ionization of a table top or something. Also radiation doesn’t remain. Once the source of it is removed, the radiation is removed. An alpha particle turns into a helium atom the moment it strikes something and I doubt the apartment is helium tight.
Whatever, I am thousands of miles away making up scenarios from bad newspaper reporting.
Scotland Yard will probably have more information out next week.
CP dumb question – is what they found in the Hamburg apartment the same thing they found in Room 441 of the Millenium (evidence that radiation had been there?) I don’t get it yet sorry> if the radiation doesn’t remain then why do areas have to be cleaned? REally dumb here sorry
Lizard1, let’s say they found some material suggesting that Po-210 had been handled in the apartment. Such as some storage facility or something along those lines, there are probably other ways, but one way of checking if there has been an alpha-emitting source around would be to check the biological material for microscopic signs of abnormal DNA damage. ANY relatively fresh biological material.
There are other ways. Alpha rays will physically pit plastic, darken glass and make it brittle, and cause physical changes in many different kinds of materials.
Now this is the kind of enterprising reporter I like – he is not sitting behind a desk reading blogs and typing up stories:
London police detained Kommersant correspondent Musa Muradov on Friday when he was trying to examine the place of the poisoning of former FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko. The police officers stopped him at Room 441 in the Millennium hotel in Mayfair where Scotland Yard thought the poison for the political émigré had been prepared. Russian businessman Andrey Lugovoi, a witness of the poisoning, stayed in this room in early November.
so that is what they were looking for at the millenium, on the airlines etc. – pitting of plastic etc?
CP, yes, that would mean that the apartment was a long-term storage place. By looking at biological material it should be possible to determine even short term presence of radioactive material.
this is new: they are (as they should) checking the water supply:
The HPA has also spoken to Thames Water about the possibility of the local water supply being contaminated by water from the dishwasher.
No contamination has been detected so far, but water supplies are still being tested. More than 200 customers who visited the hotel bar that day are also to be screene
here’s more about Hamburg – physicists etc please interpret:
The first measurements in the first floor of the apartment brought no results, DPA writes, referring to a police spokeswoman. About 8:15 p.m. three multivans of the Federal Office for X-Ray Protection showed up at an Erzberger Street 4-storey building in the centre of Altona,
Die Welt has got to know that a group of one hundred policemen have encircled and is guarding the whole area around Erzberger Street. Federal Criminal Police Office with specialists built up decontamination mats.
ate my post: more about Hamburg part 1:
Die Welt has got to know that a group of one hundred policemen have encircled and is guarding the whole area around Erzberger Street. Federal Criminal Police Office with specialists built up decontamination mats.
this is not liking cut and paste right now so I will type: 100 police surrounding the area of Altoona in Hamburg and decontamination experts there. Big action in Hambrug – go read at Axis
Lizarde1,
“Big action in Hambrug – go read at Axis”
Where did you read this?
dang! no one has posted in a while. Guess you guys are all out on a Friday night participating in the activity commonly known as “having a life.” Oh well. Guess I’ll go watch a movie with the Mrs. Then read a little bit of the Canterbury Tales. I’ll check back in later to see if the next shoe has dropped, or polonium plopped, or theory flopped.
Hey CP, do you have a link to the Hamburg apt. story you put in your first post? Good background info on the Russian “3 amigos” in that Guardian story — thanks for posting it.