She qrote: "Later I heard he had been poisoned and I am ashamed to say I thought it might have been another trick to get attention."
I gotta say, that's exactly what I thought when I first heard about it -- (inward groan) "those Berezovsky people will do ANYTHING to appear relevant."
Litveninko kind of reminds me of a classmate of mine as a child who would continuously make up wilder and wilder lies in an attempt to get people to listen to him. Pretty sad really.
--- James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> My friend Julia has more insights into Litvinenko in
> today's Observer:
>
> "He told me shamelessly of his blackmailing plans
> aimed at Russian
> oligarchs. 'They have got enough, why not to share?
> I will do it
> officially,' he said. ...
> So we carried on walking, Litvinenko regaling me
> with more stories about his
> war against the Kremlin. 'Every time I publish
> something on the Chechen
> press website, I piss them off. One day they will
> understand who I am!' he
> said.
> Some of his emails were confidential documents from
> the FSB, the successor
> to the KGB; others were his own writings for the
> Chechen press. Many of his
> 'political' texts were too obviously rants to take
> seriously: one of his
> wildest claims was that Putin was a paedophile."
> Read the full story at:
>
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1962762,00.html
>
>
>
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