This is, indeed, the theory advanced by Izvestia. And to whom, you may ask, would Litvinenko want to smuggle a substance that can be used to make nuclear bomb triggers? THINK, PEOPLE! :)
--- Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
>
> [I can't vouch for him as a source, but his
> ruminations sound very sound if
> you accept his original premise (which has somehow
> been edited out of this
> Slate version of his blog musings). That premise is
> that the radiation from
> the Po-210 in Litvinenko's body wouldn't be strong
> enough to contaminate all
> these other people who were near him. Therefore
> there must have been a
> source outside his body which was being carried
> around and had a leak in it,
> and which got him worst because he injested it. And
> therefore the real
> suspected crime here is polonium smuggling, which
> can be used for nuclear
> bomb triggers.]
>
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