The plot continues to thicken in the death, which is not yet classed as a murder by British police, of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko. Mario Scaramella, an Italian academic, who had lunched with Litvinenko on the day he was allegedly poisoned and who had warned him that they were both on a Russian hit list, has now been reported to have ingested a life threatening dose of polonium. Mr. Scaramella is in hospital and his condition is uncertain. Litvenenko's wife, Marina, has also tested positive for a small amount of ingested polonium which posed little or no short term risk to her health.
Whoever is responsible for the Russian's death and the Italian's poisoning must have really wanted them dead. The Guardian reports today that the amount of polonium-210 could have killed him a hundred times over and would have had a value on the open market in the neighbourhood of twenty million pounds.
In the words of European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso:
Whoever is responsible for the Russian's death and the Italian's poisoning must have really wanted them dead. The Guardian reports today that the amount of polonium-210 could have killed him a hundred times over and would have had a value on the open market in the neighbourhood of twenty million pounds.
In the words of European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso:
"We have a problem with Russia. In fact, we have several problems. Too many people have been killed and we don't know who killed them."
We have certainly not heard the last of this.
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