1. What I found to be the most startling about this Hardtalk interview with the wife of Alexander Litvinenko was the disbelief that hospital staff exhibited when advised to check for poisoning. This bit of the interview was aired earlier on BBC News24, and I found it to be the most fascinating that people will not listen to the victim/patient and will not accept anything that is out of their own experience. This is, of course, my problem in trying to communicate my experience with the state-of-the-art surveillance technology that has been used against me for years. No one wants to believe that my
The points made by Marina Litvinenko and Alex Goldfarb, a close friend of Alexander Litvinenko, noted that it was more than three weeks before the poisoning was taken seriously and the polonium 210 determined as the its source. This only occurred because he remained alive for so long. Had he died in a couple weeks, the source of the poisoning would have gone undetected. It took a special detection device to determine this particular radioactive poison.
And, it was pointed out that the only source would be a government source. Since this left such a large trail of radioactivity all over including many locations in London, aircraft to and from Moscow and in Moscow as determined by an extensive police investigation, it appears as if the source came from Russia rather than MI6 as has been alleged by suspect whom the UK seeks to extradite from Moscow.
The Hardtalk interview can be heard at the link below:
BBC News Tuesday, 5 June 2007, 15:02 GMT 16:02 UK
Marina Litvinenko
 Marina Litvinenko, Wife of murdered journalist Alexander Litvinenko. |
The wife of the murdered Russian journalist Alexander Litvinenko and his close friend Alex Goldfarb discuss the events surrounding his death..
Click here to watch the interview. President Putin has accused the British government of foolishness for demanding the extradition of a Russian suspect in the murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko.
Six months after Litvinenko's agonising death by radiation poisoning the chances of a trial are looking slim. Stephen Sackur talks to his widow, Marina and his close friend, Alex Goldfarb.
Will they ever find out who killed Alexander Litvinenko, or will the truth get buried amidst a diplomatic row?
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It can also be seen on BBC News 24 at 0430 and 2330.