It's surely asking too much to love all that your government does, all that’s happening in your society. One can love the country and not certain things in it and some decisions leave one shaking the head. However, this was surely predictable and I feel it would have been the same in reverse:In Moscow there was a fresh twist to the story as Russian prosecutors opened their parallel murder investigation, raising the possibility of Russia sending its own detectives to London to pursue a separate inquiry.
UK Daily Pundit raised an interesting one as well:
Nearly two weeks ago the Chechen press and Russian radio station, Echo Moskvy, were reporting that ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko had converted to Islam. Only today, as family and friends said prayers at a central London Mosque before a private funeral for the Russian, have the MSM reported it. Why the secrecy? Was there a D-notice on it? And if so why?
This can't be discounted. Lady Ellee is a wonderful lady who can get to the heart of an issue but this Litvinenko matter has twists to it which will rake in the shekels for anyone who eventually writes the definitive book. One must sit on the fence for now and wait and see. It could go either way.
James,
ReplyDeleteThe murk most certainly does not clear.
I'm sorry about this but I can't seem to e-mail you links, so they need to be posted here.
The source of the original conversion story was 'Chechenpress'; pretty much the Chechen version of 'An Phoblacht'.
However, a noumber of items about the 'Alexander Litvinenko died a Muslim' meme don't stick.
The date of the conversion varies from story to story.
No imam alleged to have attended to him in hospital has ever been produced.
The people who originally made the claim have propaganda value to gain from depicting Litvinenko as a Muslim murdered by the Russians.
Given the nature of his death, some of his funeral arrangement's peculiarities have been known about for at least five days, so stories staying, 'they arrived at the mosque and were trumed away' don't ring true'.
And now some of hs supporters are asying that he did not convert, but merely expressed sympathy for the Chechen cause.
Check this -
http://martinkelly.blogspot.com/2006/12/great-big-alexander-litvinenko-died.html
this -
http://martinkelly.blogspot.com/2006/12/great-big-alexander-litvinenko-died_07.html
and this
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1823302006
Murky doesn't begin to describe this stuff...
This is valuable. It seems there are those whose book it suits to have the scene murky. I personally believe [before checking out the links] that he is no innocent and nor was Politkovskaya. It wopuld have been easier to accept her shining role if she hadn't got in with the London set. Perhaps she was doing it to eke out info, as she did originally with the Russians and after all - what's a journalist meant to do? But there seem signs that she sympathized with 'Alexander' as Ellee does [handsome young man]and this blurs the politics in it.
ReplyDeleteЯ люблю все закрутки в этом, но как можем мы сказать говорит честно, которое реальные "goodies и baddies". По мере того как вы знаете, я держу открытый разум. Я имею scepticisms о его deathbed речь, например.
ReplyDeleteElle,
ReplyDeleteI neither read nor speak Rusian, and the blog is written in English.
Could you please post the comment in English?
Hi Martin,
ReplyDeleteMy comment says something along the lines that I love all the twists in this mystery, it's impossible to know the truth right now, who are the "goodies and baddies". I'm sceptical about part of Litvinenko's deathbed speech, I'm trying to keep an open mind. It is fascinating and gripping.
Just adding a line to say that there naturally will be attempts from Russia to discredit Alexander, who is considered a traitor anyway. It seems they are doing nothing to help find the killers.