It makes you feel sorry for the Russians because they just can't seem to do anything positive anywhere. Everything they touch turns to garbage. They cannot forget the past and yet they have learned nothing from it. Old grudges remain strong, lingering hatefulness intrudes on everything, they've made no progress at all. What a shame.

Russia's actions in the last year have been quite troublesome.

...A "hotspot on a teapot" almost sounds like a children's rhyme, until one remembers it is the 1st. example of 'nuclear terrorism'.
This American citizen, (who can't find employment despite high school/college/trade school diplomas, a decorated 22yr. paramedic career & survival, s/p 1World Trade Ctr.!!), would have thought that such an incident would have been performed at the direction of the 'sociopaths' in the white house, (G. Bush & Co.)... Like 'sputnik', the russians appear to have beaten America to the punch, (...er, ah...'sip'?), yet again...

There is no "Russian FSB intelligence." FSB is a
domestic security service.

Lugovoi was not a Russian spy. He was a KGB bodyguard and Berezovsky's servant

Russians did not that polonium is radioactive?

Its obvious they it was "state sponsored" since they have been so uncooperative in the investigation. I think the world should speak up on this matter and not sit idle as they have thus far

It is troubling that the so called unemployed 22 year decorated veteran can't seem to pull his head out of his posterior long enough to realize that it is the liberal's view that keeps the security of this country and its allies in jeapordy. Everything is a conspiracy, right? All for the oil, etc. I for one am sorry that this story has been written for the very tragedy that it demonstrates. Keep to the facts. Facts are, Bush had nothing to do with this. Try logical thought once in a while and your 22 years of service won't look like a sponging of the system.

How many lies can one article contain?

Litvinenko was never a spy.

The fact that polonium was delivered in the hotel teapot, which remained in use at the hotel, shows that either alleged assasins or British officials are stupid beyond believe. Why did a state-sponsored assasin, who is a millionaire, use a hotel teapot and then left his murder weapon at the scence of the crime?

Well Said Jim.

logic says this whole story is a sham

1) person dies of radiation poisoning
2) how hard is it to seal of the area go in with gager counters and find the hot spots?
3) this reeks of a frame up. or False Flag

Thank you Former Democrat, however I believe you have wasted your breath. He needs to have a brain in the head that inside that posterior you spoke of. I believe it had gone missing a long time ago.........

If Iranian intelligence conducted a botched
assassination that resulted in 128 people being exposed to Polonium 210, is there any doubt that we would hear a Presidential speech tonight denouncing this as state-sponsored terrorism and announcing the start of air strikes? Shows the value of already having a nuclear arsenal, I suppose...

Quite amazing that it took them so long to discover the source of the Polonium-210 and nobody may ever pay the price for their actions. And to the brain-damaged person that thinks all liberals need to pull their heads out of their posteriors well, that just shows me that you must have the same mentality as psycho Bush. It's people like you that keep America looking and acting like a third world country.

This is about Putin rolling back the reforms Russians worked hard for. Like Hugo Chavez, he's becoming a menace to the world using Oil to blackmail first former Soviet countries, and we'll be next. Despite the sheer insanity of doing so, he builds the facilities and provides the materials making it possible for the Iranians to build nuclear weapons. He backs Syria and North Korea with material. And why? So that he can re-gain the territorial control lost by the Soviet Union. He's playing Russian Roulette with the future of humanity just so he can feel like a powerful Comrade Soviet again. Litvinenko is just a symptom of Putin's growing arrogance, what he's telling us is "I can reach you anywhere, do as I say or you die for your freedom". The answer to the worlds insane regimes is to eliminate the need for oil: Stop funding these insane and unstable people with our pounds and dollars. Then we'll see how far Comrade Chavez and Comrade Putin get, when the Capitalist money they 'hate' so much no longer funds their governments.

As the article mentions, these killers never believed there method would be discovered

Just because the Soviet Union collasped does not mean that the Russians have changed. Like everywhere else, the name on the door may change, but the national goals remain the same. And the tatics to acheive those goals.

There is much we don't know. But this was not done for fun. It was done because they thought they had to.

What?! You feel sorry for the Commies for their lack of progress?! Are you kidding me?! The Russians (as well as the Iranians, Syrians, N. Koreans and Chavez) are the problem. Putin desires a dictatorship (as Chavez has implemented) and has even alluded to such by asking for an end to term limits. Additionally, he sells missile defense systems to Iran under the guise they are strictly for defense purposes (why is he helping the world's No. 1 menace in defending himself?). Don't forget Putin is ex KGB and Russia's obstructionistic acts in the UN Security panel in attempting to protect Iran, N Korea and Saddam all the while having their hand in every cookie jar. Russia is an enemy of State again, lurking under the radar just like China. They love the fact all the world's attention is focused on the small loudmouths and not themselves and their efforts to undermine everything we attempt to do to protect
peace in a time of Islamic Fascism.

Mr. unemployed paramedic needs to quit lanquishing in self pity. There are plenty of jobs out there - just ask one of the spanish speakers.

Sincerely,
D. Baugh, BBA, MBA, CFP

Guess the russians have the same problem everyone else is having. Can't get good help. I would start knocking people involved off so that it became a lesson to others, don't screw up your assignment.

The media loves this story. All may be true what is said in this new interesting story. I agree with Former Democrat article with these further clarifications. I believe that FSB is also used in foreign countries as well. I compare the FSB with a mix of the US CIA and FBI; 2 departments. I live here in moscow so I am more or less familiary. While Litv worked for the FSB about 10 years ago it seems that he worked more like a federal undercover cop. Doesnt seem that he really worked in the foreign services (even till his death apparently he didnt speak any foreign lang including english...sort of a min requirement). One thinks of a spy as someone who blends into the background (a guy who doesnt speak a local language is hardly that). In fact it seems that he violated the law about 10 years ago and also his employment obligations to an extent that they jailed him. It is my understanding that he escaped jail and sought refuge in the UK. So to be fair he was not an ex-KGB spy...but rather an
"unemployed fugitive from justice / ex-undercover Russian cop." I think calling him an ex spy is great name since it sounds more sexy and surely helps boost ratings!! Keep up the good propoganda!

Q: how hard is it to seal of the area go in with gager counters and find the hot spots?

A: Sealing off the areas is easy; finding the hot spots would still be difficult -- the type of radiation emitted by Po-210 doesn't register on Gieger-Mueller detectors.

Q: Why did a state-sponsored assasin, who is a millionaire, use a hotel teapot and then left his murder weapon at the scence of the crime?

A: Maybe he didn't realize the possibility of the Po-210 leaching into the glaze of the teapot and assumed it would be washed away with the tea remains?