IT'S OFFICIAL: PUTIN'S PEOPLE WHACKED LITVINENKO

BBC:

The murder of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko was carried out with the backing of the Russian state, Whitehall sources have told the BBC.

A senior security official has told Newsnight there are "very strong indications it was a state action".

Mr Litvinenko, who was a fierce critic of former Russian President Vladimir Putin, was poisoned in London in 2006.

UK investigators suspect former KGB agent Andrei Lugovoi of the murder, but he has always denied any involvement.

EVERYONE WITH A BRAIN - EXCEPT FOR AJ STRATA - HAS LONG BELIEVED THIS. (READ SOME OF AJ'S INSANE RUBBISH HERE AND HERE! IT'S HILARIOUS!)

• AJ STRATA FEELS LITVINENKO AND BEREZOVSKY WERE WORKING WITH CHECHENS TO MAKE NUCLEAR BOMBS - OR SOMETHING IDIOTIC LIKE THIS.
• I CALLED AJ OUT ON THIS - AND HE (LIKE LGF) BANNED ME.
• THE CLINCHER FOR ME WAS SIMPLE: LUGOVOI WENT BACK TO MOSCOW WHEN LITVINEKO BECAME ILL, AND IF HE WAS AN ANTI-PUTIN PERSON (LIKE BEREZOVSKY AND LITVINENKO), THEN HE WOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT.

END OF STORY. NOW WHITEHALL AGREES, PUBLICLY.

• PUTIN IS NO DIFFERENT THAN ASSAD: MURDEROUS TYRANTS.
• BUSH HANDLED BOTH INEPTLY AND INEFFECTIVELY, IT WOULD SEEM. THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS I FEEL DUBYA STANDS FOR WIMP.
• WE DESERVE A BETTER RUSSIA POLICY FROM OUR NEXT ADMINISTRATION - PERHAPS SANCTIONS AGAINST PUTIN AND RUSSIA.
  
• AND I DESERVE AN APOLOGY FROM AJ STRATA.
• ASIDE: THE "BRILLIANT" AJ STRATA ALSO FEELS THE OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE IS REAL; IMHO, THIS IS GROUNDS ENOUGH TO BELIEVE IT IS FAKE!