To: Atlantic Friend
The KGB used poisons by choice. Very expert. The very pure dioxin used on Yuschenko has a very wide non-fatal dose range, with one well publicized living case having ten times Yuschenko's dose. (The dose given Yuschenko was about a gram, took five minutes to calculate that with only an amateur's understanding of digestive processes.) So either the poisoners did not intend for Yuschenko to die, preferring him to be a disfigured political martyr, or, they had no knowledge whatever about the poison they were using, hadn't even done a google search.
Occam's razor plays no favorites.
54 posted on
01/07/2005 3:06:58 AM PST by
Iris7
(.....to protect the Constitution from all enemies, both foreign and domestic. Same bunch, anyway.)
To: Iris7
The idea was probably not to poison him in a way where everybody could scream "the KGB poison experts did it !", I suppose.
It reminds me of Ceaucescu, whose secret service used radiation to slowly kill opponents. They died slowly of cancer, end of the problem, less troublesome than a firing squad, and nobody complains too much since the guy dies of "natural causes".
To: Iris7
Occam's razor plays no favorites. Oh it does, the modern version:
West good, Russia bad.
58 posted on
01/07/2005 5:31:14 AM PST by
A. Pole
(Hash Bimbo: "Low wage is good for you!".)
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