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British Police Identify Killer in Radiation Case

Posted by Zonk on from the hercule-poirot-to-the-white-phone-please dept.

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'"

6 of 235 comments (clear)

  1. We should be defending the Plutonium killer by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 4, Funny

    because not only is he interested in high tech assassination, he's also in favor of Open Sores.

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  2. Re:Tracked by his radioactive trail by Walt+Dismal · · Score: 5, Funny

    Could we trade Darl McBride to the Russians in exchange for... well ...let's give him to them for free.

  3. Andrei's reply by Dunbal · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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  4. Re:Tracked by his radioactive trail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can I have a pony?

  5. Re:Implications for British Power by iminplaya · · Score: 3, Funny

    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?

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  6. Re:YRO? by martin-boundary · · Score: 4, Funny

    What the hey does this have to do with Your Rights Online?
    Online is a code word for electricity, and electricity is produced by nuclear power plants, and where there's nuclear power plants, there's plutonium, and plutonium was used to poison the Russian guy, and killing Russians is not allowed in Britain, and things that aren't allowed are written down in the Law, and the Law sets out your Rights, for values of your which are compatible with whichever Law applies, so that's why Your is capitalized.

    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.