| British Police Probe Ex-Spy's Death
The Russians are certainly getting predictable. Quote:
Anti-terrorist police investigating the death by radioactive poison of a former Soviet spy probed theories ranging from a Kremlin plot to a case of self-poisoning as health authorities prepared Sunday to test scores of people for traces of radiation.
Opposition politicians, meanwhile, pressed for a British government statement on Alexander Litvinenko's death by poisoning, which officials have called "unprecedented."
"It is essential that other dissidents living in Britain are reassured about their safety and there are also questions about how polonium-210 came to be used in Britain," said David Davis, the Conservative law-and-order spokesman.
Litvinenko - a former KGB agent who was a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin - died Thursday of heart failure after falling gravely ill from what doctors said was poisoning by the radioactive element polonium-210.
Litvinenko, 43, told police he believed he was poisoned Nov. 1 while investigating the October slaying of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, another critic of Putin's government. He was moved to intensive care last week after his hair fell out, his throat became swollen and his immune and nervous systems suffered severe damage.
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