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Dead Spy's Photo Used in Target Practice
2007-01-31
MOSCOW (AP) - The head of a center that trains security personnel and held a competition for Russian special forces confirmed Tuesday that it has used shooting targets showing the photo of a former agent who was fatally poisoned in London last year.

However, Sergei Lysyuk, head of the Vityaz Center, said he had been unaware that the photo target showed the poisoned ex-agent, Alexander Litvinenko. "The fact that it was Litvinenko, we only found out later from the press," Lysyuk told The Associated Press. "We did not shoot at Litvinenko, we shot at a target."
"We weren't shooting at him, he was just a target."
Got it.
Russian media this week published photographs of Sergei Mironov, head of the Russian parliament's upper house, visiting the center in early November. His visit, to present awards in a competition for Interior Ministry special forces, came about a week after Litvinenko fell ill; one photo shows the Litvinenko target in the background.
Posted by:Steve White

#2  They must not like him at home. I've got to admit after 911, I was so pissed about Osama Bin Laden, that I used his photo for target practice. Wish I had the real thing.
Posted by: JohnQC   2007-01-31 11:52  

#1  Good on them, its his own fault for turning against his country. Pussy
Posted by: alex   2007-01-31 08:40  

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