Investigation: Were Israelis poisoned like Litvinenko?

[Keit]

So now they have an excuse if they indeed will find Israeli with polonium traits.

http://www(dot)ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3332980,00.html

Could Israelis have been poisoned by the radioactive poison used to kill Russian spy Alex Litvinenko?

The Health Ministry received a list of 30 people who were staying in London's Millennium Mayfair Hotel when Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned. Lists have been passed around and efforts are being made to locate addresses and phone numbers of those staying in the hotel in order to notify them, and to recommend they get checked.

British investigators suspect that Litvinenko was poisoned with polonium-210 while staying at Millennium Mayfair in the center of London, on November 1.

Traces of the radioactive substance were found in some of the hotel's employees, and there is concern that guests of the hotel were also exposed to small amounts of the poison.

The investigators passed on lists of the hotel's foreign guests to a number of countries. Among the countries who received a list are the United States, France, Germany, and Israel .

Professionals in the Health Ministry are holding consultations with Israeli and British radiation experts in order to decide which tests should be run on those who stayed at the hotel around the time of the poisoning. Furthermore, it has yet to be decided in which medical institution the tests will be done.

Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB agent, was one of the most prominent opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He was poisoned with radioactive material and died a few days after.

Experts note that the poison is especially deadly when swallowed, and that danger to the lives of those who came in contact with the poisoned man is low.

 

[Nienna]

Keit, I think you hit the nail right on the head. Now, those who really did the deed can escape, while those who are needed to be patsies can be used.

 

[Ruth]

Found this here: http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1855702006

Litvinenko 'poisoned earlier than first thought'
ANGUS HOWARTH

A KEY witness in the death of the former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko claimed the radiation poisoning took place earlier than widely believed, a Russian newspaper reported yesterday.

Andrei Lugovoi, a spy-turned- businessman who met Litvinenko at a London hotel on 1 November, the day Mr Litvinenko suspected he was poisoned, said in an interview with the tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets that he and Mr Litvinenko were poisoned on 16 October.

"Who told you that the contamination took place on 1 November? It took place much earlier, on 16 October," Mr Lugovoi was quoted as telling the newspaper. etc, etc.

Included on the same page was a comment, as follows:

Insider, France / 8:47am 14 Dec 2006 Artful diversion by "key witness" Lugovoi to put the spotlight away from himself and Kovtun. I suspect both have been put in a moscow hospital to pretend being ill and portrayed as victims, which would indicate that moscow is part of the whole thing.

And, I wondered how much of this hoo-ha was real, and how much of it has been planted or just accepted as fact. (I think it was Litvinenko himself who gave them the 1st of November as a date). How hard would it be to catch the culprits for a poisoning, when you don't know when it occured (or how often), what the dose was, and how it was administered. The police have been curiously tightlipped about the how. Then there's the curious fact that most crimes are commited by someone the victim knows and often by someone close to the victim.

One would think that if someone wanted to commit a crime that it would be best commited in private, away from large groups of people who will no doubt observe something that can be discovered by the police later. So much hoo-ha about this gentleman's 'public' life, its almost a distraction, what about his private life? It seemed to be such a disorganised mess, just like his funeral. It got me thinking about the curious relationship between Arafat and his wife, Mordechai Vanunu and that recent capture of a Lebanese Mossad employee.

It would seem that the best person to commit a crime in this blokey, bloke world would be a woman. They are, afterall treated like they are invisible. Although, I'm sure the police are the last people to be blind to this!!