Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Forensics of the Assasination of Alexander Litvinenko
Since Dad happened to stay at the Millenium Hotel shortly after Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned, I thought this article might be of interest to you all. I actually heard a talk on this by a member of Scotland Yard while at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences meeting this year. Interesting stuff.
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"The murder of Alexander Litvinenko did little for diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and Russia, but it did bring a rare earth metal into the spotlight." Well, that's something, at least!
That is interesting and I remember thinking at the time how horrible that whole thing was. Remind me to stay away from those Rare Earth Metals and spys.
I can't understand how there was no 210 PO until the Sushi Place - where the first traces show up but it's not until "Off the charts" amounts show up at the Millennium that causes people to believe the poisoning took place there. If it's so rare - how'd this "extremely rare earth metal" at the Sushi place or are our fish that polluted?
Poloniun 210 is found in trace quantites in some types of sushi, but in this case none of the polonium was found at the tables Litvinenko was sitting at, plus it was at too low a level to be toxic.
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