Another source is confirming the value of the Polonium-210 that killed Litvinenko was in the tens of millions: German investigators say the radioactive polonium-210 used to kill a former Russian spy in London last month would have cost $25 million on the black market. The Berliner Zeitung quoted a police source Wednesday as saying police […]

Two new clues have emerged in the puzzle that is the Litvinenko incident. There are now some vague reports of another Russian of interest associated with Kovtun and his trip to Hamburg from Moscow in October (before Litvinenko fell ill): An unnamed Russian businessman who flew from Moscow to Hamburg on October 28 with Mr […]

There is an article out today which helps put the dosage of Polonium 210 into perpsective, and a history lesson which would dictate the Litvinenko incident was not an assassination. It is the only recorded death by Polonium 210, and clearly demontrates Polonium is not a weapon of assassination: A low-dose exposure was blamed for […]

Finally we are seeing some people using science, analysis and logic to address the fact we have a series of sworn enemies of Russia, who are aligned with allies of Al Qaeda, turning up exposed to massive amounts of Polonium 210 (compared the amount needed to kill one person), a material used in nuclear bomb […]

Update: Terrible news out of Germany as it appears Kovtun’s ex-wife, her two kids and her current partner werer contamination, and possibly poisoned, by Polonium 210: Four people in Germany may have ingested the radioactive substance that killed former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, German police said, as German investigators probed the activities of one of […]

Update: I agree with readers here that the German police were thorough and complete and were able to resolve Kovtun’s travels and the contamination trail much faster than their British counterparts – unless the media is being spun by UK authorities. The German authorities are being very pragmatic and they too note that Kovtun probably […]

We have to keep in mind the three previous rounds of contamination at London hotels on Oct 16th (which Kovtun was present at) and Oct 28th and finally Oct 31st-Nov 1, when Litvinenko was fatally exposed. In all three of these cases Lugovoi flew to London and met many times with Litvinenko. And we have […]

I had hoped the UK authorities were just being coy with the UK media by continuing to feed the assassination stories involving Litvinenko’s poisoning. Sadly I may have been giving them too much credit. As I posted somewhere earlier today the biggest problem with the assassination drumbeat is it can misdirect people into seeing everything […]

Major Update: Well, one prediction of mine has been proven wrong. It seems Kovtun flew from Moscow to Hamburg first, and then onto London. One has to wonder why he would do this round-about route to get to London. Did he need to pick something up in Hamburg was he trying to provide an indepedent […]

The Polonium-210 trail has now been confirmed to extend into Germany: German authorities on Sunday said a contact of poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko left traces of the radioactive substance polonium 210 in several places he visited in Hamburg. “Test have shown clearly that we are dealing with polonium 210,” Gerald Kirchner from the […]