The Murder of Alexander Litvinenko
This
web site is dedicated to the memory of Alexander Litvinenko, a modern day hero
who sacrificed his life in the struggle for truth against enemies of freedom
and human rights. Let his martyrdom be the opening phase in revealing to the
world that Russia's intelligence services, the KGB of old, is still wholly intact
and, in fact, now more of a danger to world peace and security than has ever
been the case.
Alexander Litvinenko was a lieutenant-colonel in the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation who outed his employers in 1998 for corruption and terrorist activity. He was subsequently dismissed by the FSB and in 1999 was arrested by Russian authorities on trumped up charges. In 2000, Litvinenko was released from prison and, facing rearrest on new false charges, he defected to Great Britian where he became a well known Russian dissident and writer. Litvinenko publicly accused Russia's intelligence services of engaging in acts of terrorism around the world including the 1999 apartment bombings in Russia and the ordering of assassination attempts on dissidents like Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky and anti-Putin journalist Anna Politkovskaya. He also made startling revelations like that Ayman al Zawahiri, al Qaeda's #2 leader, was trained by the KGB and Russian President Vladimir Putin is a known pedophile.
On November 1st of 2006, Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned with Polonium-210, a rare, highly toxic radioactive isotope. Twenty-two days later he died. Certain of who was behind his ill-fate, Litvinenko wrote in a final statement released to the public upon his death: "You may succeed in silencing one man but the howl of protest from around the world will reverberate, Mr Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life."
On the fateful day of his poisoning, Litvinenko had two meetings in London where
he was vulnerable to a poisoning attempt. One meeting early in the day was with
two former KGB agents, Andrei
Lugovoi, a former bodyguard of Russian ex-prime minister Yegor Gaidar and
former chief of security for Russian TV channel ORT, and Dmitry
Kovtun, who left
a Polonium trail from Hamburg Germany prior to his arrival in London. Later
that day Litvinenko met with with an Italian acquaintance, Mario Scaramella,
for lunch at Itsu, a sushi restaurant on Piccadilly in London, where he reportedly
made allegations regarding Romano
Prodi, Italy's Prime Minister. Scaramella, attached to the Mitrokhin
Commission investigating KGB penetration of Italian politics, claimed to
have information on the death of Anna
Politkovskaya, 48, a journalist who was murdered at her Moscow apartment
in October 2006. He reportedly passed Litvinenko papers concerning her fate
that day.
- MY INVOLVEMENT -
I first became aware of Alexander Litvinenko
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Alexander Litvinenko's
Final Statement "I would like to thank many people. My doctors, nurses and hospital staff who are doing all they can for me, the British police who are pursuing my case with vigour and professionalism and are watching over me and my family. I would like to thank the British government for taking me under their care. I am honoured to be a British citizen. I would like to thank the British public for their messages of support and for the interest they have shown in my plight. I thank my wife Marina, who has stood by me. My love for her and our son knows no bounds. But as I lie here I can distinctly hear the beating of wings of the angel of death. I may be able to give him the slip but I have to say my legs do not run as fast as I would like. I think, therefore, that this may be the time to say one or two things to the person responsible for my present condition. You may succeed in silencing me but that silence comes at a price. You have shown yourself to be as barbaric and ruthless as your most hostile critics have claimed. You have shown yourself to have no respect for life, liberty or any civilised value. You have shown yourself to be unworthy of your office, to be unworthy of the trust of civilised men and women. You may succeed in silencing one man but the howl of protest from around the world will reverberate, Mr Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life. May God forgive you for what you have done, not only to me but to beloved Russia and its people." Alexander Litvinenko |