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Doctors: Yushchenko Poisoned With Dioxin
Yahoo.com ^ | 11 Dec 04 | SA

Posted on 12/11/2004 6:49:03 AM PST by Ginifer

VIENNA, Austria - The mysterious illness of Ukrainian opposition leader and presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was caused by dioxin poisoning that was likely intentional, doctors said Saturday.

Yushchenko has accused Ukrainian authorities of trying to poison him in the runup to a presidential vote marred by fraud. Ukraine's Supreme Court voided the outcome of that vote, which Yushchenko lost to Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, and a rerun of the ballot is slated for Dec. 26.

Yushchenko first fell ill in September and was rushed to the Vienna hospital. He resumed campaigning later in the month but with a pockmarked and badly disfigured face.

He returned to the hospital later in September for further treatment and checked in for a third time Friday.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: attemptedmurder; conspiracy; dioxin; kgb; poison; putin; ukraine; yushchenko
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1 posted on 12/11/2004 6:49:04 AM PST by Ginifer
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To: Ginifer

rut roh!!!


2 posted on 12/11/2004 6:55:41 AM PST by AntiGuv (™)
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To: AntiGuv

A Russian love tap.


3 posted on 12/11/2004 6:57:06 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Ginifer

Damn.

They aren't even sneaky about it, huh?


4 posted on 12/11/2004 6:57:56 AM PST by nuffsenuff
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To: Calpernia; Velveeta

Ping


5 posted on 12/11/2004 6:59:36 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Today, please pray for God's miracle, we are not going to make it without him.)
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To: Ginifer

You would think the Russians would have used something that worked faster. Thankfully, he will survive this murder attempt.


6 posted on 12/11/2004 7:03:45 AM PST by Jackknife (.......Land of the Free,because of the Brave.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I think the Russians would have succeeded if they were the ones who tried. I wonder how he ingested it and why there hasn't been more talk about that.


7 posted on 12/11/2004 7:08:33 AM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Ginifer

Yes, with the KGB out of service, they just have to walk up and drop some Dioxin in his vodka.....!!!!!


8 posted on 12/11/2004 7:12:46 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Ginifer

This doesn't smell right. Google Dioxin and it doesn't come up like a fast acting poison.


9 posted on 12/11/2004 7:13:57 AM PST by Thebaddog (Dawgs at rest.)
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To: jakkknife

He will survive, but he will be disfigured for a looong time. Cloracne (caused by dioxin poisoning) persists for years and years.

Too bad, he was an exceptionally handsome and telegenic man.


10 posted on 12/11/2004 7:17:00 AM PST by ubaldus
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To: Thebaddog

It is possible that the dose was not meant to kill him, just incapacitate for several months and take him out of the running.

Some dioxins are fast-acting.


11 posted on 12/11/2004 7:18:36 AM PST by ubaldus
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To: EagleUSA
The KGB is not out of service. It has merely changed its name(s) and administration.

The USSR was the largest poison researcher in the world and used humans extrensively in its research. Putin is from that political realm, a KGB professional himself.

12 posted on 12/11/2004 7:19:24 AM PST by TheGeezer
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To: Ginifer

After that attack, the guys face has more pockmarks than the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.


13 posted on 12/11/2004 7:19:27 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (FR: Will be mature & independent when we can "Freep" either a GOP or Dem White House on any issue.)
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To: Ginifer
I saw a short clip of an interview with his wife (very pretty, spoke English like a native), the other night.

She said he never took medicine but when she was kissing him the night before he fell ill, she said she tasted medicine on his lips and smelled it on his breath.

She said she asked him about it and he said: "Don't worry about it" (or something to that effect).

That led me to wonder if he hadn't taken something himself to cause this.

Is the desire for power in some men so strong that they will disfigure themselves in order to obtain power?

Hmmm....

14 posted on 12/11/2004 7:30:02 AM PST by FReepaholic (Proud FReeper since 1998. Proud monthly donor.)
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15 posted on 12/11/2004 7:32:05 AM PST by Momaw Nadon (By the time you read this tagline you've already read it.)
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To: Ginifer
BBC has another article:

Ukraine's Yushchenko in hospital

Maidan reports
The head of austrian [sic] clinic Rudolfinerhaus Michael Zimpfer claimed on the press-conference that V.Yushchenko had been poisoned with dioxide.

“For the last 24 hours we have finished analisys of blood and there is no doubt that V.Yushchenko was poisoned with dioxide”, M.Zimpfer said.

16 posted on 12/11/2004 7:36:23 AM PST by Mike Fieschko (Stop or I shall be forced to say stop again.)
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To: Ginifer
WHAT DOCTORS???

NAMES???

Hospital Says Yushchenko Not Poisoned

29 September 2004 -- The hospital in the Austrian capital Vienna that treated Viktor Yushchenko has issued a statement saying the Ukrainian opposition presidential candidate was not poisoned.

The Rudolfinerhaus hospital did not give details about what it believes to be the cause of Yushchenko's symptoms. It did say "an alleged poisoning is absolutely unfounded in medical terms."

17 posted on 12/11/2004 7:41:40 AM PST by FairOpinion
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To: FairOpinion

I didn't write the story...just posted it.


18 posted on 12/11/2004 7:44:48 AM PST by Ginifer
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To: tscislaw

I think its a lot more likely that certain men in Moscow are much more willing to kill or disfigure someone in their own quest for power.


19 posted on 12/11/2004 7:47:03 AM PST by Mr.Clark (From the darkness....I shall come)
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To: ubaldus

But it does go away eventually, then?


20 posted on 12/11/2004 7:47:04 AM PST by cicero's_son
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