Kremlin Kills Two Birds With One Stone?
Interfax reports that Alexander Litvinenko’s associate, Dmitry Kovtun, has fallen into a coma. Other reports are that he is in the hospital, but is not in a coma. I’ll update this when the dust begins to settle.
Litvinenko contact Kovtun critically ill: Ifax
Thu Dec 7, 2006
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Dmitry Kovtun, a contact of dead Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, is in critical condition in hospital from radiation poisoning, Interfax news agency quoted an unnamed source as saying on Thursday.
“Doctors have classified Kovtun’s condition as critical,” Interfax quoted its source as saying. Kovtun met Litvinenko in London on November 1, the day the former spy fell ill.
Interfax also reported that Kovtun fell into a coma after British and Russian investigators working on the Litvinenko case had finished questioning him in a Moscow hospital. However, it gave no source for the information on a coma.
A spokesman for Russia’s Prosecutor-General’s office said he had no information about Kovtun’s health.
Russian prosecutors earlier opened a criminal investigation for the attempted murder of Kovtun, a businessman. They said Kovtun was displaying symptoms of radiation poisoning.
Litvinenko, a Kremlin critic who was buried in London on Thursday, was killed by a lethal dose of polonium 210, a radioactive substance. British and Russian authorities have opened murder investigations.
7 December, 2006 at 8:39 pm
why kremlin? guy fell into coma after he was interrogated by british, so maybe britts drove him into coma? at least there is a connection: after X, therefore because of X. what is the connection with kremlin?
btw, don’t forget to mention that litvinenko converted to islam and was buried on muslim cemetery. remember black beards in the middle of london, just before the bombing, screaming “bomb, bomb uk!”? those were litvinenko’s friends. nice company, eh? those guys want to get their hands on nuclear material badly, maybe their pal litvinenko got burned trying to do them a favor?
7 December, 2006 at 9:02 pm
When a man on his deathbed points to his killer and says, “that’s him” that normally pushes any investigation to start with the assumption a dying man has no reason to lie.
7 December, 2006 at 9:16 pm
Strange epidemic that’s killing these Russian spies. Must be contamination by Islam.
Touch the cult of death and death results.
7 December, 2006 at 9:18 pm
live by the koran, die by the koran.
9 December, 2006 at 10:51 am
this all too intriguing, and l for one do not trust any convert to islam. good that he is gone,
hope his next life he is born a Jew and see how muslims love their Jewish neighbours.