From: George Sherwood 

On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 10:06:27 +0000, Adam wrote:

> George Sherwood wrote:
>> Looks like Putin is starting to work early to consolidate power before
>> the 2008 elections.  Make sure who ever he anoints will be elected
>> president.
>>
>> George
>>
>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/19/npoison19.xm
l
>>
>> Scotland Yard has launched an investigation into an audacious attempt
>> to murder ƒ “ using a deadly poison ƒ “ a leading Russian defector at a
>> restaurant in London.
>>
>> Alexander Litvinenko, a former colonel in the Russian secret service
>> and a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, was seriously ill
>> under armed guard at a London hospital last night.
>
> Gosh how unfortunate. 50 & a stressful last few years is a common sort
> of heart attack combination.


WTF?  Were do you get heart attack? You have a problem admitting what your
friends in Moscow are doing? Can you imagine the outrage if Bush was
accused of this?
 Of course you and Phil do this everyday, but you are blind to what is
really happening in Russia.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061120/ts_afp/britainrussiaspy

Specialist detectives launched an investigation as the 43-year-old lay in
hospital in a serious but stable condition, fighting what an expert said
was poisoning by thallium, a toxic metal.

"Officers from the specialist crime directorate are investigating a
suspicious poisoning," a spokesman for London's Metropolitan Police
told AFP.

George

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