Posted on 11/30/2006 9:28:46 AM PST by MadIvan
Doctors treating a former Russian Prime Minister for a grave illness believe he was deliberately poisoned, an aide has revealed.
Yegor Gaidar is being treated in a Moscow hospital after becoming ill on a trip to Ireland a week ago.
"Doctors don't see a natural reason for the poisoning and they have not been able to detect any natural substance known to them in Gaidar's body," said aide Valery Natarov.
"So obviously we're talking about poisoning (and) it was not natural poisoning."
He said Mr Gaidar's condition could not have been the result of food poisoning.
The news follows the death in London of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko from radiation poisoning.
Sky News correspondent Alex Rossi said: "It is extremely strange, another bizarre twist to this story.
"Mr Gaidar is being kept in an undisclosed hospital and his condition is described as stable."
Mr Gaidar served briefly as prime minister in the 1990s.
He began vomiting and fainted during a conference in Ireland on Friday and was rushed into intensive care.
Earlier this week Anatoly Chubais, head of the national electricity monopoly, said he suspected a link between Mr Gaidar's illness, Mr Litvinenko's death and last month's murder of investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya.
Regards, Ivan
Ping!
It's becoming the Polonium Epidemic of 2006.
Man, Russian flu is really contagious this year. Seems like the only vaccination is to not criticize Putin.
Stalin was more subtle than Putin.
This is getting more and more interesting.
bfl
Must be the "Russian flu".
Putin behaving badly I think.
The West really needs to express outrage at this and act accordingly so that Putin realizes he CANNOT act this way. Or if it's the former KGB and not Putin, he will be forced to shut it down.
But Putin's grandfather was in charge of Stalin's personal security.
Watch Glenn Beck- He's been talking about hte real threat from Russia, and pointing out that they aren't the 'friends' that we had hoped for. He's been pointing out some facts that the public isn't really aware of concerning Russia's involvement in the middle east and their real intentions- very interesting stuff. http://sacredscoop.com
It will be interesting to hear further developments on the cause.
It doesn't take a mentat to know we need to invent food sniffers ASAP!
Catherine Herridge from FOX News had a story about this. She said a cursory search shows some connection between Litvivenko and Gaidar. An ex-bodyguard.
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHaaaaaahahahhaha!! I guess we don't have to worry about it spreading by being coughed and sneezed on. You are very bad... but very funny :)
no joke?
I'm seeing lots of dots
Is old Stalinist trick.
But do the Brits have the ability...and the courage...to connect them?
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