Pololium everywhere. I would've bet that the embassies would be clean, but this case is nothing but surprises.
Daily Mail The expert team that examined the British embassy in Moscow has found
small traces of radiation, but concluded there is no risk to public
health and the embassy is functioning as normal, the Foreign Office
said.
Radioactive Soccer
Arsenal Stadium is also found to have trace amounts of polonium 210, The radiation was found at the north London football ground at "barely
detectable levels", the Health Protection Agency (HPA) said.
Despite Tony Blair promising that no diplomatic barrier would stand in the way of the inquiry, Mr Chaika, Russia's prosecutor general, laid down the ground rules for the team of nine British officers in Moscow.
He made clear that Russian prosecutors would be the ones interviewing witnesses, said it was "impossible" for British police to arrest any Russian citizens and underlined that no-one would be extradited to the UK.
Any Russian citizens suspected of involvement would be tried in Russia, he said.
Mr Chaika also insisted that the deadly radioactive element used to poison the former spy could not have come from Russia.
"It couldn't happen here," he said. "It's all sheer nonsense." That's a relief.
However, Mr Chaika did say that as part of their co-operation with British police, Russian prosecutors would seek to question Andrei Lugovoi, potentially a crucial witness in the inquiry.
Let's see, a Russia ex-spy, flights from Moscow, and the UK embassy in Moscow are all afoul with Polonium 210. I'd say Mr Chaika has a bit of the "Bagdad Bob" going on.
Guardian
Andrei Lugovoi, who met Mr Litvinenko in London on November 1 - the
day the former KGB agent said he believed he was poisoned - said he was
undergoing tests for radiation in hospital.
"I have been officially informed that our meeting with Scotland Yard detectives will take place today and proceed with the participation of employees of the Russian prosecutor general's office," the Russian Itar-Tass news agency quoted him as saying.
The former KGB bodyguard met Mr Litvinenko four times in the month before his death, the Russian media reported. He claimed Mr Litvinenko had contacted him with business proposals around a year ago, and said they had met intermittently in London since then.
Mr Lugovoi is believed to be the source of minute traces of polonium 210, which killed Mr Litvinenko, detected at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium in north London yesterday.
He attended the Champions League match between Arsenal and CSKA Moscow hours after meeting Mr Litvinenko on November 1.
There have been allegations that Mr Lugovoi is a major suspect in the case, but Alexander Goldfarb, a friend of Mr Litvinenko's, said he doubted that.
"I frankly doubt that he was the hit man because hit men are usually people hiding in the dark," Mr Goldfarb added. "I think it's one of his associates, I think he was used unawares ... now his life is in danger because he knows a lot."
The stadium is one of 30 places to be tested for polonium 210. 24 have been tested thus far, 12 tested positive for polonium.
This article suggests that Litvineneko may have commited suicide.
Officially Scotland Yard has yet to launch a murder inquiry, claiming they still do not have enough evidence to rule out Litvinenko's death as an accident or suicide. But could it be suicide? Was this a desperate final act of man marginalised by the mainstream for whom his anti-Kremlin message depended on the oxygen of publicity?
A suicide bomber for the nuclear age?
Certainly, Litvinenko's profile has never been greater. Even his most incendiary allegations against the Kremlin had played to little effect in Russia. Yet his deathbed description of Putin as a 'barbaric and ruthless' president played to millions worldwide. And, regardless of which direction the case twists next, the inquest and accompanying attacks on Putin from dissidents promise fresh embarrassment for the president.
