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FWD: Was Litvinenko an Islam convert?
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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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