here's another source to Azure's original post:
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/11/24/lastwords.shtml
In his last interview the poisoned former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko said that the hit on him had been ordered from the Kremlin, The Times daily reported on Friday.
“I want to survive, just to show them,” Alexander Litvinenko said in an exclusive interview given just hours before he died.
The former Russian security officer suggested that he knew he may not win his struggle against the lethal chemicals destroying his vital organs. But he said the campaign for truth would go on with or without him.
“The *******s got me,” he whispered. “But they won’t get everybody.”
Mr Litvinenko, 43, uttered his last defiant words to Andrei Nekrasov, a friend and film-maker, who had visited him in University College Hospital in London every day this week.
seems pretty clear at least to him.
there's always going to be the same 3 or 4 suspects when these exotic methods are used, i think a lot of the spy types are a little too elaborate.
as mentioned above a rusty shiv would have done... there's even plenty of poisons that are nearly untracable, there's masers that create heart attacks, there's guns that fire ice shards (getting back to georgie), this was chosen to send a message i guess...