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LONDON -- A British judge says President Vladimir Putin probably approved a plan by Russia s FSB security service to kill former agent Alexander Litvinenko.Judge Robert Owen said Thursday in a lengthy report that he is certain Litvinenko was given tea laced with a fatal dose of polonium-210 at a London hotel in November 2006.He said there is a strong probability that the FSB directed the killing, and the operation was probably approved by Putin.Litvinenko, who had become a vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died after ingesting the polonium-210, an isotope that is deadly if ingested in tiny quantities.He had fled adidas campus from Russian to Britain in 2000 after breaking with Putin and his inner circle. In 2006, he met two Russian comrades -- Dmitry salomon zapatillas Kovtun and Andrei Lugovoi -- for tea at London s upmarket Millenium Hotel. CBS News correspondent Charlie D Agata reports Litvinenko became violently ill and was dead within three weeks. A urine test confirmed the polonium-210 poisoning.On his death bed, Litvinenko told his wife, Putin did it. Today, Maria Litvinenko told reporters in London she was glad her husband s claim had been proved. British police have accused Kovtun and Lugovoi of slipping the poison into Litvinenko s pot of tea, carrying out the killing sponsored by elements in the Kremlin. Both deny involvement, and adidas sambarose Moscow refuses to extradite them. The British government announced in the wake of the report Thursday that it was freezing asset Fjoo U.N. Security Council approves resolution calling for urgent humanitarian pauses in Gaza and release of hostages
Editor s note: This Global Post story was reported by Kevin Sites. For running coverage of the war in Afghanistan and the summer s counterinsurgency campaign, including videos and regular reports from the field, read Glo stanley cup balPost s Dispatches: Afghanistan blog.KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A frontline U.S. military base in southwest Afghanistan was the scene of a wild gun battle Saturday morning, initiated by Taliban insurgents against a privat stanley thermos mug e Afghan security convoy, but which quickly drew in Afghan National Army troops and U.S. soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division.The gun battle lasted nearly an hour-and-a-half with Afghan National Army soldiers and armed contractors from the private Afghan security firm known as Compass, shooting light machines guns from the hip, Rambo-style and indiscriminately, across a wide open field where the initial Taliban attack began.The fighting started when insurgents fired a rocket-propelled grenade into what appeared to be a large sports utility vehicle belonging to Compass. The destroyed vehicle was left burning about a quarter mile from the front gate of Forward Operating Base Howz-e-Madad, a rapidly expanding, U.S. military compound in the Zhari District of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. Compass, which is contracted to protect trucks transporting materials to U.S. military installations in the region, is routinely targeted b stanley mug y Taliban insurgents, even more so than U.S. and Afghan troops, according to Lt. Col. Peter Benchoff, command
LONDON -- A British judge says President Vladimir Putin probably approved a plan by Russia s FSB security service to kill former agent Alexander Litvinenko.Judge Robert Owen said Thursday in a lengthy report that he is certain Litvinenko was given tea laced with a fatal dose of polonium-210 at a London hotel in November 2006.He said there is a strong probability that the FSB directed the killing, and the operation was probably approved by Putin.Litvinenko, who had become a vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died after ingesting the polonium-210, an isotope that is deadly if ingested in tiny quantities.He had fled adidas campus from Russian to Britain in 2000 after breaking with Putin and his inner circle. In 2006, he met two Russian comrades -- Dmitry salomon zapatillas Kovtun and Andrei Lugovoi -- for tea at London s upmarket Millenium Hotel. CBS News correspondent Charlie D Agata reports Litvinenko became violently ill and was dead within three weeks. A urine test confirmed the polonium-210 poisoning.On his death bed, Litvinenko told his wife, Putin did it. Today, Maria Litvinenko told reporters in London she was glad her husband s claim had been proved. British police have accused Kovtun and Lugovoi of slipping the poison into Litvinenko s pot of tea, carrying out the killing sponsored by elements in the Kremlin. Both deny involvement, and adidas sambarose Moscow refuses to extradite them. The British government announced in the wake of the report Thursday that it was freezing asset Fjoo U.N. Security Council approves resolution calling for urgent humanitarian pauses in Gaza and release of hostages
Editor s note: This Global Post story was reported by Kevin Sites. For running coverage of the war in Afghanistan and the summer s counterinsurgency campaign, including videos and regular reports from the field, read Glo stanley cup balPost s Dispatches: Afghanistan blog.KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A frontline U.S. military base in southwest Afghanistan was the scene of a wild gun battle Saturday morning, initiated by Taliban insurgents against a privat stanley thermos mug e Afghan security convoy, but which quickly drew in Afghan National Army troops and U.S. soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division.The gun battle lasted nearly an hour-and-a-half with Afghan National Army soldiers and armed contractors from the private Afghan security firm known as Compass, shooting light machines guns from the hip, Rambo-style and indiscriminately, across a wide open field where the initial Taliban attack began.The fighting started when insurgents fired a rocket-propelled grenade into what appeared to be a large sports utility vehicle belonging to Compass. The destroyed vehicle was left burning about a quarter mile from the front gate of Forward Operating Base Howz-e-Madad, a rapidly expanding, U.S. military compound in the Zhari District of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. Compass, which is contracted to protect trucks transporting materials to U.S. military installations in the region, is routinely targeted b stanley mug y Taliban insurgents, even more so than U.S. and Afghan troops, according to Lt. Col. Peter Benchoff, command
