Ex-Russian Spy Poisoned In London Restaurant...Ties To Murdered Journalist...

The Telegraph Andrew Alderson and James Glover November 19, 2006 05:10 PM

Scotland Yard has launched an investigation into an audacious attempt to murder - using a deadly poison - a leading Russian defector at a restaurant in London.Alexander Litvinenko, a former colonel in the Russian secret service and a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, was seriously ill under armed guard at a London hospital last night.

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