‘Ex-spy wanted Muslim burial’

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‘Ex-spy wanted Muslim burial’



Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian intelligence agent poisoned in London, requested before his death that he be buried according to Muslim tradition, his father said in an interview for the Kommersant newspaper published on Monday. The former agent and critic of the Kremlin expressed the wish as he lay dying in his father’s arms, Valter Litvinenko said.
“He said I want to be buried according to Islamic tradition. I said okay son. It will be as you wish. We already have one Muslim in our family. The important thing is to believe in the Almighty. God is one,” he said in the interview. Valter Litvinenko said he was sure that president Vladimir Putin was involved in the death a view apparently voiced by the former agent himself in a letter before his November 23 death and rejected claims that former Russian agents may have been responsible.
“No kind of veterans organisation would dare to kill a former secret service member. There was an order right from the top to kill my son,” Valter Litvinenko said. “I am in no doubt that this was done by members of the Russian secret services, with the permission of Vladimir Putin,” he said. The father added that he would return to Russia after burying his son, although he considered that returning was not without danger. Russian authorities have denied any involvement in Litvinenko’s death.
Separately, Russia’s said on Monday that British investigators had been allowed to come to Russia to pursue their inquiries into Litvinenko’s death. Friends of Litvinenko, said meanwhile that the investigators should insist on seeing another ex-KGB agent, now in jail, who had “substantive information” of use to them. AGENCIES

 

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This news was in TOI dated 5th December 2006.
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Alexander Litvinenko Buried with Muslim Ceremony in London

Former spy Alexander Litvinenko, who defected from Russia to the UK, was laid to rest in a Muslim ceremony at London's Highgate Cemetery. He was killed with polonium-210. It's presumed he was poisoned with the radioactive substance on Nov 1st. Traces of polonium-210 were found in Litvinenko's body after his Nov. 23 death.

The cemetery is also the last resting place of Communism's ideological founder, Karl Marx.

A British health agency said that seven staff from a London hotel bar where Litvinenko drank have been found to have traces of polonium 210 which killed Litvinenko.

Self-exiled billionaire Boris Berezovsky, Chechen rebel envoy Akhmed Zakayev and some 50 mourners consoled Litvinenko's widow, Marina, and 12-year-old son, Anatoly, at the funeral. A single white rose was placed on his rain-splattered dark oak casket. "He turned against the crimes committed by his former colleagues," said Zakayev, "just as Anna Politkovskaya did. She exposed them. He provided the proof. He had to be liquidated."

From his deathbed, Litvinenko blamed his fate on President Putin - a charge that Kremlin officials have called "nonsense." The Russians also question why his accusing statement was not released while he was still alive. Instead, it was made public right after he died and thus its authenticity is impossible to verify. Many in the Kremlin suspect Berezovsky of manipulating the fallout from Litvinenko's death to discredit the Kremlin.

The Kremlin has denied any role in Litvinenko's death. Among the theories is that it could have been the work of rogue elements in Russia's intelligence services, working independently of the Kremlin. This is much more plausible, because, even if President Putin would have supposedly wanted him dead, it's certain a much more discreet death would have hit Litvinenko and probably not at this particular moment when there's enough tension due to the death of his fierce critic journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

In Moscow, Russian prosecutors opened their own investigation into the former KGB agent's poisoning death. "The Russian Prosecutor-General has opened a criminal case in connection with the murder of Russian citizen Alexander Litvinenko and the attempted murder of Russian citizen Dmitry Kovtun," a statement said. Scotland Yard on Wednesday said it was investigating his death as a homicide, and traces of radiation have been found at more than a dozen sites in Britain and on jetliners that flew between London and Moscow.

Meanwhile, Dmitry Kovtun, a businessman and former Russian agent who met with Litvinenko in London, had developed an illness connected with a radioactive substance, the prosecutor's office said. But Andrei Romashov, a lawyer for another key figure in the case, told The Associated Press that he contacted Kovtun's representatives after the report and they told him Kovtun's condition was "the same as it was when he met with prosecutors."

Mr. Kovtun and Mr. Lugovoi have told reporters in Moscow that someone is trying to frame them in Litvinenko's death. Mr. Lugovoi was at one point a bodyguard for former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, who also fell sick recently in Ireland with an illness that Russian doctors have been unable to diagnose.

British detectives in Moscow and Russian investigators had on Wednesday interviewed Kovtun who, with businessman and ex-KGB spy Andrei Lugovoy, met Litvinenko in a London hotel on Nov. 1.

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there was editorial i think in telegrahp im not sure but there it was that KGB is very much alive and the old members are very much associated. the dirty game of killing them is on.