Italy on alert as hysteria grips Europe-Rest of World
LONDON: European hysteria may have reached epic proportions over the whodunit involving a radioactive isotope-poisoned former Russian spy, 12 radioactive London locations, five allegedly contaminated British Airways craft and a mysterious Italian posing as an "academic" with claimed links to an Indian university. The British government's emergency planning committee, Cobra, met late on Friday night just hours after it was announced that Italian Mario Scaramella had become the second person linked to former KGB colonel, Alexander Litvinenko, to test positive for the rare and highly toxic metal Polonium 210. Scaramella was one of the last people to have met the former spy before his death.
Meanwhile, one of Britain's leading security experts, Professor Anthony Glees of the Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies at Brunel University said that the secret and illegal import of Polonium 210 into Britain put a whole new complexion on stringent post-9/11 security measures. Glees said, "the fact that you could get it onto planes despite all the security measures that we all go through every time we fly, is causing very serious disquiet".
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