KGB style poisioning

[Burdock]

So, we've concluded that the Ruskies are to blame for the Litvinenko poisoning, and are going to ask Moscow to extradite the suspect. Something which Russia has stated they will not do.

Why don't we just send MI5 over there with a radioactive substance and be done with it?


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6678887.stm

[threaded]

If you look back in your weblogs WW3 started about 2 years ago.

[Moscow Mule]

So, we've concluded that the Ruskies are to blame for the Litvinenko poisoning, and are going to ask Moscow to extradite the suspect. Something which Russia has stated they will not do.

Not a case of will not, more can't

http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/...const/ch2.html

See article 61

Why don't we just send MI5 over there with a radioactive substance and be done with it?

Probably better off with MI6, but otherwise good idea.

[Burdock]

Not a case of will not, more can't

http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/...const/ch2.html

See article 61

That's really interesting.

What would happen if Russia wanted someone extradited to them? Surely they are forfeiting any chance of that by having such a restrictive clause in their constitution?

Or did Putin stick no.61 in last week?!

[AtW]

No, it's not a good idea - using same methods as scumbags makes you just like them: Soviet Russia will certainly not let Lugovoi go anywhere, but this will be all the rational people around the world need to know about Soviet state's involvement in yet another assassionation.

If Lugovoi wants to live he will do the only smart thing he can - walk into British Embassy and ask for a polytical asylum with promise to cooperate with Scotland Yard on who exactly gave him orders to kill Litvinenko.

If he has not done so far this is most certainly because he was told that his family will die, being an assassin it is easy to believe they are not bluffing.

[Rantor]

That's really interesting.

What would happen if Russia wanted someone extradited to them? Surely they are forfeiting any chance of that by having such a restrictive clause in their constitution?

Or did Putin stick no.61 in last week?!

It already is a sore point as they want to extradite blokes like Boris Berezovsky (who has asylum and stacks of cash) and it ain't happening hence the bond villan tactics.

[Moscow Mule]

That's really interesting.

What would happen if Russia wanted someone extradited to them? Surely they are forfeiting any chance of that by having such a restrictive clause in their constitution?

Or did Putin stick no.61 in last week?!

Nope, there are plenty of people extradited back to Russia every year, and they are desperate to get a few oligarchs back from the UK - I think Berezovsky is top of the list...

- I think it's been in there for a while, but I wouldn't put it past him. There are murmurings that he's in the process of changing it to allow himself to stay more than his allotted two terms.

[Burdock]

If Lugovoi wants to live he will do the only smart thing he can - walk into British Embassy and ask for a polytical asylum with promise to cooperate with Scotland Yard on who exactly gave him orders to kill Litvinenko.

If he has not done so far this is most certainly because he was told that his family will die, being an assassin it is easy to believe they are not bluffing.

[Burdock]

At least it keeps James Bond scriptwriters in business...

[Moscow Mule]

For more lovely chat on post-communist Russia visit

http://www.exile.ru/2007-May-18/feature_story.html