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...Maartje Kok-de Bruijn, an Amsterdam bookstore clerk who led a European campaign to overturn his 1991 conviction - based solely on circumstantial evidence - for contracting the stabbing death of his parents and uncle. "Greg just didn't want to be buried in the state that was going to kill him," she says. Kok-de Bruijn became Summers' pen pal in 1992, visited his Huntsville prison 30 times and witnessed his Oct. 25 execution by lethal injection. Shortly before his death, Summers accepted a last-minute offer to be buried in Tuscany after attempts to obtain burial rights in the Netherlands...
Litvinenko claimed to have saved Berezovsky's life a second time. In 1998 he said he had refused an order "to kill the Jew who has stolen half of this country"--by which his superiors meant Berezovsky. As a result, Litvinenko believed, an unsuccessful attempt was made on his life. Those claims were made at a surreal press conference at which Litvinenko appeared with six other disgruntled FSB officers. Some wore ski masks, but Litvinenko, his face uncovered, calmly stated that bosses at the FSB were using the organization "for their private ends to liquidate those who bothered them...
...according to the website of United Nuclear, which sells isotopes for use in research labs, it would take about $1 million, 15,000 purchases of the largest unlicensed amount and some fancy lab work to scrape together a lethal dose. (The British Health Protection Agency says the dose that killed Litvinenko was at least 10 times as high as that needed to kill...
...commander has repeatedly denied any responsibility for the deaths of Selesitano Kalounivale, Jone Davui, Epineri Bainimoli and Lagani Rokowaqa. "I never gave any orders to kill," he said in 2003. However, in the weeks before the coup Bainimarama was under increasing pressure over the murders. Police probes and court actions by victims' families and surviving soldiers could have seen him suspended, forced to give evidence about the killings, and potentially facing charges and a six-figure compensation claim against the Fiji Military Force...
...three goals she allowed in the loss at Connecticut last Tuesday.“Martin was playing great in front of us,” Brine said. “We had confidence going on the ice knowing that. We just knew that all we had to do was kill these two five-on-threes and get the puck out.”As the Providence power play seemed to be reaching the height of its intensity, Brine went to her knees to wrest the puck away from the Friars, clear it past two blue lines, and allow Harvard...