Putin administration's critic poisoned

Originally Posted by Bradylama

Which of course brings to mind the question that if the Russians didn't want him dead, who would?

The conspiracy theorist would say "The U.S. Government, to then blame the Russians so they can place more pressure on them for oil/weapons/keeping conspiracy X under wraps." In reality, if you want to name a suspect other than the Russian Government, I'd say the Russian Mafia. They are still quite active and powerful. It's concievable that they had something to do with this -- I can imagine a number of scenarios where someone in trouble with the government would make a deal with the Mafia for protection, and now that protection has, well, "been terminated." It would also explain the lag time between his death and the end of most of the political pressure he's been applying.

Watts's link is really interesting though. If there's any more about this, I would like to see it. The Chechen Press doesn't seem like the best source to get an unbiased, journalistic view of Putin (hello, propaganda).

Jam it back in, in the dark.

This is interesting. The original article in the thread says he was poisoned with Thallium, but apparently now it's Polonium-210, a radioactive poison. There are numerous articles talking about the radioactive nature of his death. Here's one, and you can find a bunch more by Google News searching for Radiation Poisoning.

I saw a picture of Litvinenko, hairless and looking very sick, on the CBS news. They ran a short story about him and the fact that they're now testing a variety of places, including airplanes he was on, for radiation. This seems more like terrorism honestly than a political silencing. If it is the Russian government, they may be trying to get at all of the people.Litvinenko was involved with as well. This is a pretty dangerous and damaging way to kill someone.

What do you guys think?

There's nowhere I can't reach.