Spy poisoning plot thickens.  Understand they've been using polonium-210 for poisoning since the 50's.  Wonder if this has anything to do with Russia selling Iran nuclear equipment, and rumors of Russian scientists helping Saddam remove WMD's prior to the US going in to liberate it?????????????????? 

"Letters 'revealed secret hit squad'
(excerpt)

"Detectives are investigating letters smuggled out of Russia purporting to show the existence of a secret squad set up to target poisoned spy Alexander Litvinenko and others."........

............"Mr Trepashkin, who worked for the KGB's successor the FSB until 1997, was tried in 2004, accused of being a British spy and passing secret information to Mr Litvinenko and his close friend the tycoon Boris Berezovsky, both exiled in London.".............
......."The letters include one to Mr Litvinenko which he never received, as well as one to his friend Mr Goldfarb. In the message to Mr Litvinenko on November 20, Mr Trepashkin recalls a conversation in August 2002 in which he warned Mr Litvinenko - already living in London - that he and his family were at risk from the FSB.
Mr Trepashkin tells his friend that he had met an FSB contact near a railway station in Russia who told him that a "very serious group" had been set up, which "will knock out all those associated with Berezovsky and Litvinenko". .......
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/01122006/344/letters-revealed-secret-hit-squad.html