RIA Novosti 04/07/2008 15:41 MOSCOW, July 4 (RIA Novosti) - A mysterious illness that has left Britain's top intelligence official in a coma has sparked speculation in the country's tabloids that he could be the victim of a Russian assassination attempt. British police announced on Friday that Alex Allan, 56, who heads the Joint Intelligence Committee, was in a coma in hospital after falling seriously ill on Monday. Although police have said there are no indications that Allan was poisoned, British tabloids have been quick to link the incident to the fatal poisoning of Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko in November 2006, the cause of a diplomatic row between Russia and the U.K. The Sun cited "security experts" as saying "Alex Allan may have been an assassination target of the Russians or al-Qaeda." The...
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