Feels like old times….

“A former Russian spy who died last week from radiation poisoning named a senior Kremlin agent as the man he believed responsible for targeting him.

Alexander Litvinenko, who died after mysteriously absorbing polonium210, a rare and highly toxic radioactive material, said in his last full interview from hospital that he knew he was an “active case” for Russian intelligence.

He named the agent in charge of monitoring him as “Viktor Kirov”. A man called Anatoly V Kirov worked at the Russian embassy in London, where he was listed as a diplomat, until late last year.

He is believed to have left the diplomatic service in October 2005 and returned to Russia. But Litvinenko claimed just days before he died that Kirov was an intelligence agent who continued to target him.

Yesterday, antiterrorist squad police requested that The Sunday Times hand over a tape of the interview in which Litvinenko named Kirov. Detectives from Scotland Yard’s Counter Terrorist Command SO15 are on standby, if required, to travel to Moscow to interview people involved in the case.

Litvinenko‚Äôs claim ‚Äî though he did not accuse Kirov of any direct involvement in his poisoning ‚Äî will reinforce suspicions that he was killed by an assassin with links to state intelligence. Experts believe that an individual or organisation with access to a sophisticated nuclear facility could have obtained polonium210.”

This case has been interesting because the most obvious answer as to the “why” would be that Litvinenko was ‘silenced’ for being a fierce critic of President Validmar Putin’s regime. Quite frankly I believe that to be the most plausible, although there are some floating ideas around such as hekilled himself .

Now traces of radiation have been discovered on two British Airways planes, and the former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar is ill with suspected poisoning.

I’m late to the game, but AJ Strata has been on this like a cheap suit and has seen beneath the story since the story broke.

One thing is for sure, this is a lot more than what it appears on the surface.