Why do people insist on turning any topic into an attack on Bush. Let's just say it, Bush is guilty of poisoning a Russian spy in Britain. He is guilty of blowing up the Trade Center. Heck, if we try hard enough, we can probably find a connection between Bush and the killing of Jesus. Quit making everything a political attack. Why not use this space to actually discuss the article that is being presented.

What everyone forgets, including our own agencies, is the fact that back in 1990-1991 all the old commies went to bed one night and the next day woke up as "capitalists." Nothing has really changed; it was a "bloodless" revolution. We are dealing with the very same people, and by "people" I don't mean the
common person, but the old communist elite which is still running the show in Russia.

If you had read the earlier BBC reports on the case you would know that the fact that Polonium was discovered at all was a near miracle. It is incredibly difficult to detect, and though people knew he had been poisoned it was highly unlikely due to the rare nature of polonium that this would have been identified.
It nearly was a 'perfect' murder - but the Russians underestimated the Brits - and it has blown up terribly in their face.

The terrible shame is that, without corruption, Russia would be a fabulously wealthy (and powerful) nation. (Mexico would also be wealthy without corruption.)

This entire case is HIGHLY SUSPECT- all you need to do is have some polonium and sprinkle it around and you have a murder weapon.
One very obvious thing being overlooked is how convenient it is to have bad press for russia right now and also- how EASY it is to fake evidence in this case..just contaminate it with polonium and it suddenly is accepted as a murder weapon.
The ignorance in these comment responses is astounding.
First nuclear act of terrorim my ass- the first nuclear terrorist act was hiroshima and nagasaki.

Russia is not staffed by an alien race that uses special tactics that the west would never stoop to.
Contrarywise- they learned these underhanded tactics from the west.
Putin is murderous but THe bush administration is a global terror organization with no equal- their brutality and black operations are the biggest crime being committed on this planet today. How ironic we still see fit to compare ourselves to russia as moral superiors!!
about a million dead people since bush came into office beg to disagree!!!!

Oh wow. This is scary. How many others had used this teapot until it was discovered that this teapot is the source of the Polonium-210? By the way Putin was an ex-KGB agent/boss who lived in East Germany for number of years. It comes a no surprise to me how Russia functions today including the "democratic" Government itself.

Of course, it would be easier to denounce Russian perdidy if Bush hadn't made our own country the world's leading terrorist and pariah state. Y'know, it's hard to complain about international diplomatic offenses when you've invaded another country for no good reason, want badly to invade another, and made it clear that you don't respect virtually any of the others. Thanks again, George W.

It was a dirty deed, but someone had to do it.

Exceptionally said Richard Williams. Kudos!

JOBS OUT THERE FOR SPANISH SPEAKING ONLY, HUH? QUIT CRYING AFTER WE HAVE LEFT THE BORDER OPEN ALL OF THESE MANY YEARS. I AM NOT HISPANIC BUT I SURE DON'T SEE MANY WHITE COHORTS WANTING TO HOE BEETS, PICK AND PEEL ONIONS AND OTHER PRODUCE; DO CONSTRUCTION OR CEMENT WORK AND THE LIST GOES ON. AMERICA WAS PROUD OF BEING THE MELTING POT SO THEY NEED TO GET OVER IT. CHECK OUT THE PROGRAM ON THE POOR IN CAMDEN, NJ TONIGHT, JUST TO SPOTLIGHT ONE AREA OF OUR COUNTRY AND LEARN A SECOND LANGUAGE MR. EDUCATED.

Read "Origins of the Fourth World War" by J.R. Nyquist. It will open your eyes and you'll see just how serious the threat of Russia/China/communism is. There is so much ignorance out there. Just knowing that Russia has stronger and MANY more nukes than the U.S. and that China is economically independent from the U.S. (capitalist yet not capitalist) should make you shudder. Don't believe all the conspiracy theories about the "fascist American imperialists." The truth is the U.S. is a weak and crumbling country at this point in time, and millions and millions of westerners are going to die since it is far too late to turn back. You can call me a fatalist if you'd like, but I know it's the truth. I personally am training to be a survivalist. Imagine a dozen Katrinas for every nuclear bomb dropped or biochemical weapon used. To those who will mock me and these words I only answer this: Cease in dacadence and prepare or be doomed. WW3 is going to be the ugliest war man has ever seen.

Polonium 210 cannot be detected with a geiger counter. It decays through alpha emmission. These particles cannot penetrate the walls of a Geiger-Müller tube. They cannot even penetrate tissue paper.

You have to get close to the source with an alpha scanner. The partcles do not go very far through the air. Airport scanners cannot detect them. 50 nanograms of Po-210 can kill you.

(Applause for D. Baugh)
Well said!

From an Conservative American degreed electronic engineer.

British officials lied repeatedly about the Kosovo affair and still couldn't win a conviction against Milosevic in a kangaroo court. So now we're supposed to believe they're telling the truth about a major embarrassment for Scotland Yard?

I wonder if the British investigators have determined who became 'hot' from drinking out of the 'hot' teapot? I wonder if children, elderly and or infirmed drank from this teapot; I wonder what the subtle symtoms and longterm effects of drinking from this teapot are like?

IMHO the perpetrators of this crime should be pursued with significant resources and "vigor" so as to better the chances of isolating them and naming them publically; criminals, terroists, like this must be found and stopped.

So... it was the Russians, in a hotel room, with a teapot.

If the teapot had been in service, how hard would it have been to have someone contaminate a clean teapot some time after the investigation to throw off the investigators?

To me, that seems to be a simpler explanation than incompetent investigators.

For what purpose I have no idea.

"Former Democrat" you say? Hope the door hit you on the way out.

I am sure that if the gentleman in question were unavailable, and the ambulance that came for you was just in time (as opposed to 5 minutes too late) to save your daugters/sons life, you would not look at our first defenders like "a sponge".

Again, I for one hope the door hit you (where the sun don't shine) on the way out.

Polonium-210 isn't something one can buy at a corner drugstore. So no matter how you slice it, I'm convinced it was "state-sponsored" at some level, if not all the way.

You people that are making this into a Bush Admin problem are funny....I'm not a Bush-lover and didn't even vote for him, but you people can take any news story and turn it into a Bush-bashing session. Do you not have enough intelligence to discuss a subject without bringing our President into it?

Sigmarlin--Chavez IS a dictator....yes, he was elected, but the means by which he rules is a pure dictatorship....spend some time in that country and you'd see what I saw.