Glowing planes

[AtW]

What I am saying is that the source of poisoning seemed to be known the second he died, when previously nobody had a clue....

It was known few hours before he died - they were looking specifically for poison for at least a week before then, and he was stable just few days before death: it so happened that damage to him became really bad in the last 48 hours so he died.

I see no relevance between time of his death and finding what exactly killed him, especially given that traces of same isotope found everywhere and now on the planes which he did not board, in fact it seems that traces found on plane used to fly to London before he was poinsoned in the first place.

[Ardesco]

And all of these traces have been found very quickly as well as thousands of people checked for radiation poisoning (even hough the chances of getting i'll from this type of radiation unless it was ingested are virtually nil).

Are you saying that our wonderful government would not do something like this AtW.....

[AtW]

And all of these traces have been found very quickly

Yes, because they:
a) knew what they were looking for (specific alpha type radiation)
b) they walked places where the chap was on that day: they manage to interview him many times before he died
c) obvious suspects are Russians - so checking airplanes, especially those that had names of people who could be on watch list, ie embassy people, or just known agents

Logical enough - 12 places contaminate here, lots of people involved, this is not something you just setup by the Govt, well, not British one.

[Lola]

Yes, because they:
a) knew what they were looking for (specific alpha type radiation)
b) they walked places where the chap was on that day: they manage to interview him many times before he died
c) obvious suspects are Russians - so checking airplanes, especially those that had names of people who could be on watch list, ie embassy people, or just known agents

Logical enough - 12 places contaminate here, lots of people involved, this is not something you just setup by the Govt, well, not British one.

The British spies were daft enough to put PDA wifi in an artificial rock bought from B&Q and use it for drop-off information for NGOs in Gorky Park.

[Ardesco]

Logical enough - 12 places contaminate here, lots of people involved, this is not something you just setup by the Govt, well, not British one.

Why are you so sure of this AtW?? Are you really 100% positive that the British government would never do something like this for thier own motives?

Secondly unless Litvinenko had a piss at every location how did they get contaminated? I'm sure a professional assassin would have stored the substance properly because he/she would not want to get ill so I very much doubt it leaked out (If so all we have to do is look for somebody else with radiation poisoning).

To me it looks to be going all to well, we have all the answers, liebour get to look tough on crime and hghly efficient in cleaning up after it. Something is not right, mark my words!!!

[AtW]

Let's wait and see what happens.

[Ardesco]

Let's wait and see what happens.

Because the government will obviously fess up if it was them

[OwlHoot]

I heard an 'expert' on the radio saying that the quantity required to kill someone would be easy to spot as it would be giving off a blue glow and generating lots of heat. In other words extremely difficult to administer.

I'm not so sure. I heard an expert saying it was 250,000,000 times as toxic as cyanide (radiation aside). But I can't imagine how such minute quantities wreak so much _chemical_ havoc, although I vaguely recall it mimics potassium and screws up nerves in some way.

[sasguru]

C'mon Ardesco stop seeing a conspiracy around every corner ....

[Ardesco]

Well to be honest i'm not that serious about this one, I just fancied having a bit of a discussion with AtW. He seems to have too high an opinion of our government IMHO.

I am still convinced that 9/11 and 7/7 were both done with government knowledge and involvement though!!!