someone s tea cup and everyone s laughing at it? i mean, the state cannot be involved in that. litvinenko s friend paul joyal, who believes he was the target of a botched assassination, agrees that in some ways litvinenko s killers were indeed clumsy and careless. but he says that s because they were probably just pawns in a much bigger game. do you think that any of them knew what that substance was? do you think that they knew they were handling polonium? why wouldn t they have known what they were handling? because you don t want them to know. but they could have done a better job not spreading it all over the place if they knew. they also might say no, there s no way i m going to do that. i don t want to handle that radioactive material? i am not going to kill myself in the process. to get closer to the truth about who killed litvinenko, we had to talk to the suspects themselves, andrei lugovoi and dmitri kovtun. in kovtun s case, it wasn t easy.
kind of substances for killing people that you never will be able to recognize. why do we have to go into some kind of a bar and put it in someone s tea cup and everyone s laughing at it? i mean, the state cannot be involved in that. reporter: litvinenko s friend paul joyal, who believes he was the target of a botched assassination, agrees that in some ways litvinenko s killers were indeed clumsy and careless. but he says that s because they were probably just pawns in a much bigger game. do you think that any of them knew what that substance was? do you think that they knew they were handling polonium? reporter: why wouldn t they have known what they were handling? because you don t want them to know.
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that russia didn t kill him. translator: for a hundred years, the russian special services have been using the kind of substances for killing people that you never will be able to recognize. why do we have to go into some kind of a bar and put it in someone s tea cup and everyone s laughing at it? i mean, the state cannot be involved in that. reporter: litvinenko s friend paul joyal, who believes he was the target of a botched assassination, agrees that in some ways litvinenko s killers were indeed clumsy and careless. but he says that s because they were probably just pawns in a much bigger game. do you think that any of them knew what that substance was? do you think that they knew they were handling polonium? reporter: why wouldn t they have known what they were handling? because you don t want them to know. reporter: but they could have done a better job not spreading it all over the place if they knew. they also might say no, there s no way i m going to do that. re
assassination, agrees that in some ways litvinenko s killers were indeed clumsy and careless. but he says that s because they were probably just pawns in a much bigger game. do you think that any of them knew what that substance was? do you think that they knew they were handling polonium? reporter: why wouldn t they have known what they were handling? because you don t want them to know. reporter: but they could have done a better job not spreading it all over the place if they knew. they also might say no, there s no way i m going to do that. reporter: i don t want to handle that radioactive material? i am not going to kill myself in the process. ing to kill mysef in the process my digestive system used to make me feel sluggish but now, i take metamucil every day.