Was Litvinenko an Islam convert?
Par islamtoday, Saturday 2 December 2006 à 19:01 :: General :: #12 ::
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by Lester Holloway 30/11/2006
MYSTERY SURROUNDING the death of Alexander Litvinenko deepened when
Russian radio station reported the former KGB officer had converted to
Islam.
Ekho Moskvy reported that Litvinenko was read the Yasin surah, or
prayer, and given Islamic death rites by an imam invited to the dying
spy's hospital bedside.
Scotland Yard are said to be treating the claims seriously.
Ekho, a prominent liberal broadcaster funded by state-owned gas
monopoly Gazprom, said Litvinenko would be buried in a Muslim cemetery
in London.
The station cited Chechenpress, the official news agency of the
wartorn republic's insurgency.
Litvinenko died last week from radiation poisoning. He was thought to
have been close to journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was shot dead
last month in Moscow.
He was investigating her murder. She was another opponent of the
Kremlin, and particularly the war in Chechnya.
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UK Daily Pundit
'Radio station Echo Moskvy reported Friday that Litvinenko converted
to Islam. Litvinenko, it said, was read the Yasin surah, or prayer, and
given Islamic death rites by an imam invited to the dying spy's
hospital bedside. Ekho, a prominent liberal broadcaster funded by state-
owned gas monopoly Gazprom, said Litvinenko would be buried in a Muslim
cemetery in London. The station cited Chechenpress, the official news
agency of the wartorn republic's insurgency. A statement dictated by
Litvinenko two days before his death and read by friends on Friday said
nothing about a conversion to Islam.'
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