FSB: Litvinenko Poisoned Himself

A certain Mukhin, director of the FSB-sponsored "Centre for Political Information" in Moscow, expressed scepticism about suggestions that the Russian government was behind the poisoning. "This could all be part of a big political game, an information war on the Kremlin, organised by Boris Berezovsky," he said.

"Litvinenko is on Berezovsky's payroll, there's no doubt about that. I wouldn't be surprised if Litvinenko poisoned himself to raise this fuss and try to blow up a storm about these documents which supposedly show the FSB was connected to  death... (of an American female journalist in Moscow on October 8, KC). It's like soldiers who shoot themselves in the foot".

"I knew Litvinenko in the 1990s and he always struck me as a boltun [windbag, tittle-tattler] who made accusations all the time but couldn't back them up,"  the FSB proxy claimed, the South African newspaper  Mail&Guardian. reported.

Earlier, the FSB accused the Russian emigrant, Mr Berezovsky, in the murder of the American female journalist.

Attempts to reach a spokesman at the FSB terrorists' den in Britain, the so-called "Russian embassy in London";  were unsuccessful Sunday. A person who answered the phone said to call back Monday, The Washington Post writes.

FSB-Poisoned  Defector Looks Like A Ghost

A former Russian spy poisoned in Britain and now gravely ill and under guard in the hospital may have been targeted for his outspoken criticism of former colleagues in Moscow, fellow dissidents said Sunday.

Russian dissident Berezovsky, who was at Litvinenko's bedside on Friday, told The Associated Press he suspects Russia's intelligence services were behind the poisoning.

"It's not complicated to say who fights against him," Berezovsky said in a telephone interview. "He is Putin's enemy, he started to criticize him and had lots of fears."

Another friend, Alexander Goldfarb, who organized Litvinenko's defection to Britain, said FSB agents had issued death threats against him in the past.

"He looks like a ghost," Goldfarb said. "He's a very fit man, he never smoked, he never drank, he would run five miles a day, but now he has lost all his hair, he has inflammation in the throat, so he cannot swallow."

He is under armed guard at University College Hospital in London.

"He's got a prospect of recovering, he has a prospect of dying," said Dr. John Henry, a clinical toxicologist who treated Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko in 2004 after he was poisoned by the FSB during his presidential election campaign

Russian authorities have yet to comment on the allegations.

Glenn Edwards, operations manager at Itsu restaurant where the lunch took place, told The Associated Press that detectives had arrived at the restaurant on Saturday asking for close circuit television footage.

Analysts said the poisoning bares the hallmarks of a Russian organized operation, the AP reported.