Litvinenko poisoning case solved, but...

We report. You decide.

It's nothing you don't already know (probably), but there's something shocking all the same when someone joins all the dots for you.

nice to know stalin's back in full effect. Fucking shit country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortunate_Son_%28Hatfield%29

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6678887.stm

good luck!

good luck!

http://www.vietnamwar.com/vietcongofficershootsman.jpg

The UK did it!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6706921.stm

Welcome back to the cold war...

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44002000/jpg/_44002813_lugovoi203in_afp.jpg

FYI, The Russian press has uniformly headlined the story today (ie., before Russia's response) as "UK demands Russia change its constitution"

The kind of annoying thing about this is that - although, yes, I understand the difference - it's a difficult rhetorical play for Britain to talk about international terror and then refuse to give up people that Russia label terrorists. And Russia has been so lousy as foreign politics until recently.

"UK demands Russia change its constitution"

by hook or by allofmp3 crook

berezovsky's hardly a terrorist! can you really arrest people living overseas who simply talk about revolution?

oh it is so on

oh i see, you can just kill them instead

go UK. I hope moscow blows up

hey f-ck you!

berezovsky's hardly a terrorist! can you really arrest people living overseas who simply talk about revolution?

while i wouldn't say i agree with this argument, the official line is and has long been that berezovsky funds terrorists. given that the us got out in front in 2001/2002 and essentially defined such people were essentially the same as terrorists, end of story. berezovsky's statements earlier this year were just icing on the cake. (plus berezovsky's contacts with whoever that chechen guy is are further proof that he is part of a terrorist grouping.

unfortunately i think the west defined the "rules of the game" such that it's quite difficult to call russia's bluff, even though most sane people see the differences quite clearly.

It is time for the UK to show the fleet

(also russia passed a law making it legal to kill people living overseas, or at least so i understand from the western press)

hells yeah!

this could be brown's 'port stanley moment'.

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Our brave boys, ready for action.

http://english.people.com.cn/200601/04/images/0103_C88.jpg

the fleet is about three tugboats "manned" by ipod listening eejits but, y'know, wvs

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EXACTLY

Look, it is simply unacceptable that a democratic government would kill someone because of their opinions. The UK would NEVER do something like that.

ok maybe not all moscow just the kremlin. seriously they make our bunch of gangsters look like brilliant progressives lately

Our brave boys returning from action:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2007/04/05/wiran05a.jpg

I wonder if Putin gives better presents than Amedinhejad?

Demand Neckties!

this should turn out to be an interesting exercise for NATO

Lugovoi to run for Russian parliament:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/15f1a2c4-6468-11dc-90ea-0000779fd2ac.html

...So he gets immunity from prosecutions and cant be extradited to the uk.

well, as if the duma hadn't already been castrated enough

i suppose this is the removal of the adam's apple?

Anyone else following the inquiry? Some links:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/30/alexander-litvinenko-six-things-russia-inquiry
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/28/litvinenko-postmortem-dangerous-inquiry-death

The 'why' is much more interesting than the 'who' but it's difficult to see the enquiry getting to the bottom of that. It seems fairly clear who the assassins were but there's not much chance of finding out who hired them.

One of the interesting things that might come out is evidence of the extent to which the security services or former security services have gone freelance. The idea that this could only have been pulled off by the state doesn't mean much when the resources of the state, or people with access to those resources, are available for private hire.