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British Police Identify Killer in Radiation Case
reporter writes "According to a front-page story by The Guardian, British authorities have identified Andrei Lugovoi to be the murderer who used radioactive pollonium-210 to kill Andrei Litvinenko. The British government will ask Moscow to extradite Lugovoi. The Guardian states: 'Associates of the dead man have repeatedly accused President Vladimir Putin's government of being behind his murder, a claim the Kremlin rejects. While it is known that detectives believe they have uncovered evidence pointing to Mr Lugovoi's involvement, it is not clear whether they have established a motive for the murder'"
because not only is he interested in high tech assassination, he's also in favor of Open Sores.
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The British don't do that sort of thing. Well, they probably do, but officially they don't, so they have to make sure they're incredibly subtle. He may well be killed through some completely unrelated but completely plausible reason, in a manner that that only the craziest conspiracy theorist would ever link to MI5.
Could we trade Darl McBride to the Russians in exchange for... well ...let's give him to them for free.
You arrest me, and I will irradiate you all! Muhahahaha... enjoy your sushi, judge!(disappears in a cloud of green phosphorescent smoke)
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I was thinking we should ask the US to parachute Darl McBride into the borderlands between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The worst that can happen is that he'll use up all of the Taliban's money suing half the middle east for infringing on spice-based intellectual property.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Also, we could send them the Novell traitors as a bonus.
In fact, perhaps Microsoft could be persuaded to supply their government with "n" copies of Vista, in exchange for dropping the EEC fine. That way Russia will have the most hackab^H^H^H^H^H secure government computers in the world...
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Can I have a pony?
To the people with the power on display here, the terms "British" and "Russian", you name it, don't exist. They don't see it that way. They have a target, location, and a date and time and that's the only thing that matters. They are not distracted by such ubsurdities as "sovereignty" and "identity". And we shouldn't be either when going after them. Bah, What am I talking about? The CIA and other allied intelligence agencies already operate that way. As a matter of fact, isn't this a case of the pot calling...? You know...like are there no British agents operating outside their borders in a clandestine manner? Taking part in "targeted" assasinations?
What?
But Britain is an industrialized society, so I don't think it's got anything to do with hay or hey as it's sometimes written.
Actually, knowing some of the laws of this country, its probably legal to kill a russian, however he didn't fill in all the correct forms or even apply for a license.
liqbase
Even if you *did* have a license, it's only legal to kill Russians during Russki season, which is March-April.
Gentryfication.