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Someones tea cup and everyones laughing at it? i mean, the state cannot be involved in that. >> litvinenkos friend paul joyal, who believes he was the target of a botched assassination, agrees that in some ways litvinenkos killers were indeed clumsy and careless. but he says thats 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 wouldnt they have known what t...

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 someones tea cup and everyones laughing at it? i mean, the state cannot be involved in that. >> reporter: litvinenkos friend paul joyal, who believes he was the target of a botched assassination, agrees that in some ways litvinenkos killers were indeed clumsy and careless. but he says thats because they were probably just pawns in a much bigger game. >> do yo...

Why do we have to go into some kind of a bar and put it in someones tea cup and everyones laughing at it? i mean, the state cannot be involved in that. >> reporter: litvinenkos friend paul joyal, who believes he was the target of a botched assassination, agrees that in some ways litvinenkos killers were indeed clumsy and careless. but he says thats 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 kn...

That russia didnt 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 someones tea cup and everyones laughing at it? i mean, the state cannot be involved in that. >> reporter: litvinenkos friend paul joyal, who believes he was the target of a botched assassination, agrees that in some ways litvinenkos killers were in...

Assassination, agrees that in some ways litvinenkos killers were indeed clumsy and careless. but he says thats 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 wouldnt they have known what they were handling? >> because you dont want them to know. >> reporter: but they could have done a better job not spreading it all over the place if they knew. >>...

Himself was poisoned with polonium 210. leader didnt shed tears but laughs off the notion that russian state was connected. he thinks russian agents would have done a better job. >> translator: im surprised that the uk special services and court accuses russia that it was a bag of polonium and came to london and were just throwing it around. >> it doesnt make sense to a lot of people that russia didnt kill them. >> translator: for 100 years the russian special services have been using the kind o...