(WMR) -- Was the use of polonium to
kill Litvinenko a clue to the identity of the killer or killers?
There is increasing
evidence that the radioactive poisoning assassination of ex-KGB and FSB agent
and Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko was the result of a plot by
anti-Vladimir Putin criminal syndicates based in Britain, Israel, Ukraine, and
Poland to embarrass the Russian government.
Suspicions about
the role of the exiled Russian-Israeli criminal syndicates in the poisoning of
Litvinenko, including that headed by Litvinenko's friend, wanted oligarch Boris
Berezovsky, re-surfaced after former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar became
violently ill after eating breakfast at a conference he was attending in
Dublin, Ireland. Ireland's banking secrecy laws has made it a favorite location
for the Russian-Israeli Mafia.
Gaidar's sudden
illness occurred a day after Litvinenko died in a London hospital from
poisoning from polonium-210, a deadly radioactive isotope when ingested.
Radioactive traces were later discovered at sites around London, including
Berezovsky's offices in the West End.
Gaidar was moved
from a Dublin hospital to a Moscow hospital where he received a telephone call
from Putin wishing him a speedy recovery. Putin's Mafiosi critics in Britain,
Israel, Moscow, and other countries have accused the Russian leader of
poisoning Litvinenko and attempting to kill Gaidar.
However, Russian
officials are claiming that the attacks were carried out by Putin's criminal
opponents who want to create tension between Moscow and the West.
Their arguments
appear to have merit when the choice of radioactive isotope used to kill
Litvinenko is considered. Intelligence experts point out that polonium was
discovered by Marie Curie (nee Maria Sklodowska) in 1897 and named after her
native homeland Poland (Polonia in Latin) to express her support for Polish
independence against its partition by Russia, Prussia and Austria.
Before Putin moved
in to take over Yukos Oil from the Russian criminal syndicates, there were
plans to build a Russian-German gas pipeline through Poland. After Poland was
taken over by a neo-con team of identical twins Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski,
who serve as President and Prime Minister, respectively, Poland not only began
to conduct a witch hunt against ex-Communists but also became a base of operations
for the anti-Putin Russian-Israeli exiled gangsters and oligarchs.
Named as Defense
Minister was former American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Radek
Sikorski, who also happens to be married to Washington Post editorial board
member and leading neo-con journalist Anne Applebaum, also a leading critic of
Putin (along with a number of so-called "liberals," including Clinton
ambassador to the UN Richard Holbrooke).
After Putin
decided, along with former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, to bypass
Poland and build the Russo-German pipeline under the Baltic Sea, Sikorski
unleashed a barrage against Russia and Germany. He likened the pipeline deal to
the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Agreement that carved up Eastern Europe, including
Poland, between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Sikorski asked German
Chancellor Angela Merkel to cancel the pipeline deal but she refused.
We now know that
Litvinenko was working on unspecified "energy issues" in London. We
also know he has been described as a Russian-Israeli "double agent"
and was reported to have transferred classified Russian documents in Yukos to a
Russian-Israeli exiled oligarch in Tel Aviv. Double agents are always in danger
from the party they are working against.
Litvinenko's
killers' use of polonium, named by Marie Curie in support of Polish
independence, may mean that the assassins are more likely found in Warsaw's
Russian-Israeli mob infested intelligence apparatus than in the Kremlin.
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Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based
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Tasks: Big Oil, Black Ops & Brass Plates.�He is the editor and
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