Russian Poisoning Plot Thickens--The Litvinenko-Terrorist Link

As I reported to you on The Liberty Sphere last week, the poisoning of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko is much more than what meets the eye. I suggested to you right here that this story has links to the world of Islamic terrorism. Apparently, that initial hypothesis has gained some converts among investigators.

Joseph Farah's 'G-2 Bulletin' is reporting today that the ex-spy-turned-Muslim may have been involved in a plot to smuggle the deadly radioactive substance Polonium 210 to terrorist groups who are willing to pay millions of dollars for just one gram.

Scotland Yard is now investigating possible links between Litvinenko and Islamic terrorist groups, according to the London Sunday Express. It is feared, according to Yard sources, that Litvinenko may have been helping Al Qaida and other terrorist groups obtain substances with which to make dirty bombs.

According to the Express, Britain's secret intelligence service, the M16, has learned that Al Qaida was prepared to offer 3 million dollars per gram for Polonium 210, the deadly substance that killed Litvinenko. This was reported in the 'G-2 Bulletin' last week.

According to G-2, Litvinenko's friend Mario Scaramella now says the late spy helped smuggle radioactive material from Russia to Switzerland in 2000. Litvinenko was also known to have sympathies with Chechen rebels, seeking to break away from Moscow and create an independent Muslim state.

G-2 further reports that Litvinenko's conversion to Islam was announced by his next-door neighbor, moderate Muslim and Chechen dissident Akhmed Zakayev, who revealed: "He was read to from the Koran the day before he died and told his wife that he wanted to be buried in accordance with Muslim tradition."

While the British government has insisted there is no cause for panic, MI6 and Britain's internal security service, MI5, have jointly launched a top-priority investigation on how further quantities of Polonium 210 could be smuggled by Al-Qaida.

The investigation began a week ago in Peshawar, Pakistan, which hosts a joint MI6/CIA surveillance operation supported by America's National Security Agency satellite surveillance.

G-2 recounts the following chain of events which alerted officials to the possible Al-Qaida/Litvinenko link:

'Using the latest cyber-technology, the intelligence officers in Peshawar picked up a short-burst transmission from somewhere in Peshawar's Old Town. It was in response to a call that appeared to have come from beyond the towering Khyber Pass, possibly from Afghanistan.

'The call was automatically recorded on one of the computers in the offices the MI6/CIA team share.

'Just as automatically, it was dispatched down the line through cyberspace to GCHQ, the British Government Headquarters in the Cotswold town of Cheltenham. Simultaneously it reached America's NSA at Fort Meade, Md.'

As I reported to you early on in this story of international intrigue, it is way too early to assume that Russian President Vladimir Putin or the Kremlin have any link to the poinsoning. While it may well yet be discovered that there is, indeed, such a link, it appears at this point that the now-deceased ex-spy may have deliberately pointed the finger at Putin as a diversionary tactic designed to hide his plot to sell Polonium 210 to Islamic terrorists, on top of the fact that Litvinenko would consider Putin a lethal enemy to the Chechan plot to break away from Moscow and establish an independent Muslim state.

The fact that Litvinenko had converted to Islam and had links to Jihadists is very telling.

So, once again, stay tuned. The plot continues to thicken. And with each passing day Muslim extremists are increasingly implicated.