Poisoned ex-spy had powerful enemies says contact
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An Italian contact of a former Russian spy who was poisoned in London said on Wednesday the Russian mafia and corrupt government officials had a strong motive to silence Alexander Litvinenko.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 8 -- A Russian businessman who met with a former Russian domestic intelligence officer in London the day the man fell ill from radioactive poison has himself become suddenly and seriously sick, Russian news organizations reported Thursday night.
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LONDON/ROME  - An Italian contact of poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko said he believed both were targeted with a radioactive substance because of secrets they shared.
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British scientists probing the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko said on Friday a second man had been poisoned by radiation. Media reports said the man was an Italian he met at a London restaurant.
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Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian  agent murdered in London last year, was working for British  intelligence, the man charged by Britain with his murder  alleged on Thursday.
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A former prime minister said Thursday that he is certain that poisoning, most likely by opponents of the Kremlin, caused his mysterious illness a day after a former Russian spy died of radiation poisoning.
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A second Russian businessman who met murdered ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko on the day he fell ill is now sick from radiation poisoning, local media quoted medical sources as saying on Friday.
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A former Russian spy may have been poisoned with radioactive thallium, the toxicologist treating him has said, after British counter-terrorism police took over the probe into what happened to him.
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A friend of a poisoned Russian dissident said they both received e-mail threats days before he was taken ill.
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The former FSB boss of dead Russian secret agent Alexander Litvinenko called him a &quot;traitor&quot; who would have been executed under the Soviets, in a British television interview.
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A former Russian spy fighting for his life in a British hospital may have been given poison laced with a radioactive substance to render it more lethal, the toxicologist treating him said on Tuesday.
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An former KGB agent poisoned in London described in interviews before his death how he was ordered to hire assassins to neutralize potential rivals and whistle-blowers who threatened the Kremlin, according to excerpts published on Saturday.
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An ex-KGB officer wanted in Britain on charges of murdering a prominent Kremlin critic says he feels in danger from the British authorities, a report published Sunday said.
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A friend who visited poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in the intensive care ward of a London hospital Wednesday said he looked much worse and was barely able to speak.
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The former boss of the  Alexander Litvinenko has branded the ex-spy a 'direct traitor' who committed treason against Russia.
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An Italian contact of poisoned former  Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko accused "clandestine  organizations" from Russia that were not under direct control  of the Kremlin of targeting his dead friend.
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A Russian former intelligence officer  was quoted in a newspaper on Friday as saying he and two other  men met ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko in a London hotel on  November 1, the day before Litvinenko complained of feeling  unwell.