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Poisoned KGB defector exposed Russia's backing of al-Qaeda.(Inside Track)(Alexander Litvinenko)(Brief article)
Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko is in critical condition at London's University College Hospital, where he is under police protection. Scotland Yard is investigating the case as a suspected "deliberate poisoning."
The BBC reported on November 20 that clinical toxicologist Dr. John Henry had said there was "no doubt" that the ex-spy had been poisoned by a potentially lethal dose of thallium. "It is tasteless, colorless, odorless. It takes about a gram--you know, a large pinch of salt like in your food--to kill you," Dr. Henry said.
Since escaping to England in 2000, Litvinenko has been a thorn in the side of Russian president Vladimir Putin. Litvinenko, a colonel in the FSB (the renamed Soviet KGB), has made a number of explosive claims. In his 2002 book, Blowing Up Russia: Terror From Within, he ...
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