{"id":53061,"date":"2016-01-21T16:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_litvinenko_was_probably_murdered_with_putin_approval\/"},"modified":"2016-01-21T16:00:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T16:00:12","slug":"london_times_litvinenko_was_probably_murdered_with_putin_approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53061","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times) Litvinenko was \u201d\u02dcprobably\u2019 murdered with Putin approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inquiry concluded that there was a \u201cstrong probability\u201d\u009d that the FSB ordered the killing. Sensationally, it went as far as saying that the killing was \u201cprobably\u201d\u009d approved by Mr Putin himself as well as Nikolai Patrushev, then the head of the security service.<br \/>\nIt is the first time that Mr Putin has been officially linked to the crime \u201d\u201c a move that will escalate tensions between London and Moscow.<br \/>\nSir Robert [Owen], in a 300-plus page report, directly accused a former Russian security service bodyguard and a former Russian army officer as the murderers. But he said that they were \u201cacting on behalf of others when they poisoned Mr Litvinenko\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/news\/uk\/crime\/article4670811.ece\">Read it all<\/a> (requires subscription).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inquiry concluded that there was a \u201cstrong probability\u201d\u009d that the FSB ordered the killing. Sensationally, it went as far as saying that the killing was \u201cprobably\u201d\u009d approved by Mr Putin himself as well as Nikolai Patrushev, then the head<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53061\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,199,168,200,144,151,479,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-politics-in-general","category-russia","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}