| From Russia With Love |
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| Politics - International Politcs |
| Written by C.B. Forde |
| Saturday, 09 December 2006 00:00 |
 I have always been fascinated by Russia. It is a very complex country filled with intrigue and mystery with a tremendous literary history. Russia also has a rich history of political assassinations to which it has added one more.  The assignation of Alexander Litvinenko, the former KGB agent who defected to Britain, was a very public message to the world what I would like to call jail house kite. This public violent message says, We are back and don t mess with us. Full stop. End of story. The British investigation is a parliamentary saving face measure. The world knows what happened, and Russia doesnt give a shit. Check Mate. Mr. Litvinenko lived the last years of his life as a very public critic of President Vladimir Putin and the Russian Government. So he had to die in a very public, slow, and gruesome way. The insides of his body rotted away from radiation poisoning. Just look at the pictures of what he was to what he became. From Russia with Love, a personal nuclear bomb. Lesson number 1, don t mess with a former K.G.B. agent who is a former Judo champion, obviously a master chess player, and is now one of the most feared men in the world. Mr. Litvinenko was a brave but foolish man. He had lived in a world of intrigue, death and deception yet felt he had a safe haven as a British citizen. In 1998, Mr. Litvinenko, along with two other F.S.B. agents  the new K.G.B. , held a press conference in Moscow to confirm Russian Billionaire Boris Berezovskys claim that the Russian government was plotting to assassinate Berezovsky. Mr. Putin was the head of the F.S.B. at the time. After he defected to Britain, Mr. Litvinenko published a book accusing the F.S.B. of staging a wave of bombings in Russia to instigate a second Chechen war. The Bomb was dropped on November 1, 2006. Litvinenko met with Italian academic Mario Scaramella at a susi bar in London. Mr. Scaramella had received e  mails detailing a plot against his and Mr. Litvinenkos lives. However, both men dismissed the threats because they were so specific in detail. Soon after, Litvinenko subsequently hooked up with former K.G.B. associates at the Millennium Mayflower Hotel. Not too bright when you have the head of the K.G.B. pissed at you.  In the weeks before Litvinenkos death, he had begun investigating the shooting death of Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian journalist who was also a fierce critic of President Putin and his policies in Chechnya. Not a bright thing to do if you feel your life is in danger. Perhaps this was the last straw for the Russian President. The Russian chess game denounce communism, implement supposed market reforms, elect a president, and act like a friendly nation until you have enough power to tell every one in the world fk off. The Soviet Union went bankrupt in Afghanistan. Did the Soviets manipulate the situation so George W. could bankrupt America in the same way I wonder if America really won the cold war. |