The poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko is a gift to conspiracy mongers and skeptics. Already conspiracy theories of unrivaled complexity have appeared on the Internet, some endorsed by noteworthy personalities who lend an air of credibility to what would otherwise be considered so much bunk. The death of the former KGB agent is indeed mysterious, but I say with complete confidence that the explanation will not be that he was telling the truth about Putin being responsible for terrorists attacks on his own country and was silenced after several years of spinning that yarn.

Nor will it be a consortium of Jews trying to start a new cold war. Nor a billionaire running a SPECTRE like organization dedicated to playing countries against each other for profit.

My money’s on Litvinenko,tied to Chechen rebel groups who’ve been know to dabble in radiological substances, got himself a leaky container of black market polonium-210 he intended to resell. Once the end came, his partner in crime gets a “death bed confessional” that’ll sell books and keep the heat off him.

That won’t stop the truthers, who’ll use a Putin plot as an elements for their revised 9-11 conspiracies. Septics will be able to to point to the supposed Putin hit as evidence that if Bush or any government official had something to hide, there’d be a lot more bodies around then one former KGB agent on London.

However it turns out, seeing the fanciful narrative that’ll certainly develop will be the high point of web browsing for the next several months.