In the continuing saga of the Litvinenko poisoning by Polonium-210 it seems the Russian investigators will be travelling to London to sit in on some more interrogations related to the Po-210 smuggling and Litvinenko death (which some believe was an assassination while others, like myslef, believe it was an accident in handling the very dangerous nuclear material). The Russians have a list of 100 people they wish to hear from, I would not be surprised if that list is whittled down a bit as time passes. But clearly on the top of the list is all those people currently tied to the Po-210 trail, which are a lot of associates of Berezovsky and Litvinenko. I expect Boris Berezovsky and Alex Goldfarb to be on the list of those to be questioned. Mainly because Goldfarb always reacts with media comments when Boris or himself are in a possibly negative PR position. He doesn’t disappoint:

Alex Goldfarb, who runs Berezovsky’s Foundation for Civil Liberties in New York and was a friend of Litvinenko, said Chaika’s announcement was designed to deflect attention.

“This is nothing but a stunt designed to deflect attention from Moscow,” Goldfarb told Reuters.

“It’s nothing but a smokescreen operation, a PR effort to hide the fact that the two prime suspects are in Moscow being shielded from British investigators by the Russian authorities.”

If it was nothing there would be no need to comment. The “Goldfarb standard” is key to determining the value of news on this matter. If he opens his yap it means the subject is worth paying attention to. Otherwise he would keep a low profile.

So clearly Goldfarb is uneasy for himself and his boss Berezovsky, who have had total PR control over the situation since Litvinenko died and the Goldfarb read his supposed death-bed claims against Putin. So why would Goldfarb be concerned? Simple. One of the people who was met with Litvinenko on all three dates surrounding smuggling of Po-210 through London (as seen in three contaminated hotels with mutiple rooms showing signs if material being split apart for distinct shipments to some other destination) was on Andrei Lugovoi. He and his associate Dmitry Kovtun are critical parts of the Po-210 trail and are nearly as poisoned as Litvinenko, easily being number 2 and 3 on the list of poisoned people – where Litvinenko will remain number 1. Lugovoi and Kovtun apparently signed a plea agreement ahead of the British authorities’s visit to Moscow:

Lugovoy told Reuters last month he was a witness – not a suspect – and said he had nothing to do with the poisoning of Litvinenko.

Lugovoi has said he may have more to say after January 15th – today. We shall see. The assassination theory was floated in an attempt to link a lot of suspicious deaths together in classic conspiracy theory paranoia. But many times reality is much simpler, as this person points out well:

And then there’s the opposite problem — seeing too many connections when events are more related by type than cause. The murders of Central Bank First Deputy Chairman Andrei Kozlov, journalist Politkovskaya and ex-KGB man Alexander Litvinenko are more related by the matrix of lawlessness from which they all emerged than from any coordinated plan. There were a lot of assassinations in the United States in the late 1960s — President John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X — and although there is a tendency to see some sinister hand behind them, the more likely explanation lies in the radical turbulence of the times. When a society loses faith in itself, it solves its problems with murder.

My view is Politkovskaya was on the trail of murderous organized crime thugs, got too close to the truth and was eliminated. And Litvinenko died a martyr to the Chechen Islamo Fascist cause – not an honor bestowed lightly. He died exposed to Po-210, a deadly element that could kill millions. And he and Berezovsky were connected to an extensive trail of P0-210 shipments, much more activity than is required for the fraction of a grain of salt of Po-210 that killed Litvineko. Po-210 doesn’t come in fractions of grains of salt normally. A speck of it lose in the air and ingest or inhaled was all it would take. But why so many rooms in so many hotels? One person could not manage a speck of dust of Polonium – so how is it there were multiple ‘transporters’?

I welcome the Russians and anyone who can find out what happened to all the Po-210 this trail suggests made its way through London in October. Recalling that the material would be of immense value to Islamist Terrorists against the West.