Russian special forces used image of Litvinenko for target practice

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They were the best of the best of Russia’s special forces — and they were shooting at Alexander Litvinenko.

Images of elite Spetsnaz troops using pictures of the murdered former Russian spy for target practice prompted fresh accusations yesterday that the Kremlin was behind his killing.

The pictures were taken at a training camp outside Moscow where 90 troops from the Interior Ministry’s Vityaz (Hero) brigade were competing to earn the coveted maroon beret of the special forces.

Footage from the Vityaz training centre, filmed for publicity purposes, shows young soldiers weaving through an obstacle course before a live-fire exercise, in which they pump rounds from revolvers into a photograph of Litvinenko. His face was quickly riddled with 9mm bullet holes.

more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2573572,00.html