Polonium Poisoning

[jurph]

Reading the fuss about Litvinenko's death, and the subsequent hunt for Polonium-210, made me a little suspicious. Am I the only person out there who thinks this should be a pretty easy crime to solve? Given that two aircraft have tested positive for the substance, British Airways or Scotland Yard should be able to compile a passenger list of

Comments

[mantis_tobogan]

if you were going to kill a public person, why would you do it in such a way that can be easily traced? that's the part that i keep wondering about.

[mantis_tobogan]

also, i keep picturing a trail of breadcrumbs leading to a door with a sign that says "KILL3R" (E backwards) written in crayon.

[roninspoon]

Because you're an old school KGB resource that is used to the way things used to be where it didn't matter what the evidence was.

[roninspoon]

"the KGB love to do that weird, ballsy, James Bond crap, but so do the Russian mob"

That's because the Russian Mob is full of KGB detritus.