COMMENT POSTED TO A REVIEW OF A BOOK CALLED A VERY EXPENSIVE
POISON IN THE INDEPENDENT
I do not see how there can be a "definitive account of
Litvinenko murder."
We do not know accurately what happened, full stop.
And we don't know what Litvenko himself was up to with
British intelligence.
This claim for the book reminds me much of claims for latest
book on the Kennedy assassination, a crime whose true details are hidden to
this day.
Speaking of polonium in someone's tea, about which there
seems to be no end of talk and theories, what about the identical poison used
on Yasser Arafat?
He was a much more important figure in the world than
Litvenko, and in his case the polonium was in his toothpaste.
Just who in the Middle East had access to a radioactive
element?
And just who had a powerful motive?
The answer seems pretty obvious, but we see no on-going
controversy in a case of much greater consequences.
But of course the Arafat case offers no opportunity to
attack Russia's leader.
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