2006-12-01 16:31:29 · 12 answers · asked by Ty M 1 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
no clue, it's possible but usually don;t they say "the butler did it" ? :^)
2006-12-01 16:33:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's the most likely scenario. Unless he was actually poisoned with radioactive polonium. Which the Health Protection Agency has confirmed.
Polonium has a half-life of only 138 days. So even if we assume her husband had some lying around from when he was a spy, it would have all decayed away. The radioactive isotope is also immensely rare. Even though the amount necessary to actually poison someone is a miniscule amount, to my knowledge the only way anyone has ever assembled even that much was through intentional production of the stuff in a nuclear breeder reactor.
So you have to ask yourself - who has access to a nuclear reactor, is willing to kill people, and has wanted Litvinenko dead within the last 138 days or so? It's not a very long list, if you catch my drift.
2006-12-02 00:35:44 · answer #2 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
She is contaminated with polonium herself. Why would she do it? And bring poison or arrange it transported to London all the way from Russia? There are many easy ways.
Besides, this murder bears all hallmarks of an assassination by the Russian secret services.
Litvinenko is not the first poison victim. There were hundreds of others, some dying in high-profile circumstances; remember Georgi Markov died in 90's being stung by a poisoned umbrella on the London Bridge?
2006-12-02 02:31:05 · answer #3 · answered by Calculus 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's not particularly easy to find someone to refine enough Polonium 210 to make it toxic enough to kill someone, since it costs well over a million dollars, and the technology needed would be mostly only found in nuclear laboratories.
If she really wanted her husband dead, she could have spent $50 on a gun and some bullets. I really doubt it was her doing.
2006-12-02 00:43:19 · answer #4 · answered by Magic Rapport 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Are you saying it was an inside job?
Wow --- this idea might replace that stupid 9-11 conspiracy theory. But let's face it. Aliens must have done it, because Putin wouldn't hurt a flea.
(But I blame it on Man-Bear-Pig, just for fun...)
2006-12-02 01:05:42 · answer #5 · answered by Boomer Wisdom 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. Radioactive substances can enter anywhere. Since she was his wife, they were in close contact. Polonium being highly radioactive, I don't see how she can not become contaminated. Someone else is responsible.
2006-12-02 16:04:03 · answer #6 · answered by Sonja M 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know how it happened. how would his wife get radiation into his body? i say it was an intentional act from terrorist or something. I heard the other planes they tested had radiation on it.Who knows what happened. i guess we will just have to wait to find out.
2006-12-02 01:31:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I dont know, its a scary thought. I thought the days of killing retired spies was over. This just goes to show there are many things going on under our noses that we never notice.
2006-12-02 00:34:08 · answer #8 · answered by Bonzai Betty 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No. He said that he was poisoned by the Russians because he was a spy.
2006-12-02 00:32:57 · answer #9 · answered by notyou311 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I have not been given enough accurate details to make an assumption.
2006-12-02 02:06:24 · answer #10 · answered by Conway 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋