Weaponized Polonium

TRex at Firedoglake has the details and this interesting slant:

"There are very powerful interests at work here, and it would not surprise me to find that this plot has layers on layers of intrigue. You may need a state apparatus to make polonium-210, particularly what appears to be a "weaponized" form, but all you need to buy it is money. At every stage of the process, there are people who could potentially be bought out or threatened. And one thing the power players in the former Soviet Union have in abundance is money.

So, I would not be so eager to lay the blame for this and other seemingly politically motivated murders at the feet of the Putin administration. Not because I believe that they are particularly good or just, but because I think it would be hasty to assume that they are the only malevolent actors in this particular drama."

Tracking the route the spy traveled.

Does anyone remember the weaponized anthrax?

Psst. Wanna buy some polonium?

Only $69, such a deal!

Radiation advice:
"Medical advice has been issued to staff at a British Airways plant in Wales, in case they worked on seats from a plane found with traces of radioactivity.

It followed the discovery that seats, which had undergone routine maintenance in Blackwood, were from an aircraft which tested postive for polonium.

Traces of polonium were found on the plane during inquires into the death of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko."

Thanks to Moonbootica for the links!

Update: LetterFromHere blog catches another facet, the one of terrorism:

"Anyway, to the point: this wasn't simply an assassination. ....

What this is, is a warning: "we have the capability to detonate a dirty bomb in central London any time we feel like it, so don't fuck with us". (Just take Polonium and add a little TNT.)"