The mourners, including Mr Litvinenko’s father, Walter, joined Muslims for midday prayers at the Central London mosque in Regent’s Park, where a funeral reading was given.

Chechen separatist Akhmed Zakayev, who was a friend of Mr Litvinenko, was also in attendance, along with exiled Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky and filmmaker Andrei Nekrasov.

Mosque representative Ghayasuddin Siddiqui said Mr Litvinenko’s body could not be brought to the mosque.

Mr Zakayev had said earlier this week the body would not be taken to the mosque because of concerns about the radiation it contained.

Sloppy as to movie standards? Yes.
Sloppy as to real world scenario? Maybe not.

Sammy316 on December 6, 2006 at 5:48 PM

If the Ruskies want you dead, no one will ever be able to connect them to your death.
The Russian bad boys are very, very good at what they do.
I think there’s a better than even chance that someone else wants the famed fickle finger of fate aimed at Putin.
Litvinenko conveniently and perhaps stupidly gave them the tool by which to strike.

Allah has a good round-up of today’s developments…….

I t hink it’s pretty obviously Putin myself. Allah wonders why anyone would spend a million dollars on a hit. To me, that sounds pretty cheap. How expensive was it every time we attempted a smart-bomb strike on Saddam? Assassination……

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Hadn’t seen that. Thanks. I wrote this this morning:

Let me live up to my name and offer the following uninformed speculation. All the competing theories are correct. Mr L and his friends were involved in radioactive smuggling; there is a Chechnyan/Islamic connection; and for these reasons, Putin did indeed have him killed, possibly using the latest shipment of the goods: Toasted with his own polonium. Don’t necessarily attribute this to international altruism on Russia’s part. While Russia seems to have no problem with a nuclear Iran, which is short sighted on their part, it’s hardly likely they’d sit by and let the same fine people who did the Breslan massacre get ahold of the stuff.

If the truth (ifwe ever learn it) turns out to be this, I’ll bet I won’t be the only one here drinking to the health of Putin.

dhimwit on December 6, 2006 at 9:58 AM

But wait there’s more…we may all end up thanking Putin for this.

dhimwit on December 6, 2006 at 3:58 PM

I assume you’re referring to this.

In order to scatter this stuff all over London, Moscow and several airplanes, how long did the suspects have to go without changing clothes or taking a shower?

RedWinged Blackbird on December 6, 2006 at 2:36 PM

Suppose the clothes were in a single contaminated suitcase and all contaminated. Showers and clothing changes would make no difference.