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Mystery poisoning hits dozens of children in Chechnya
Breitbart.com ^ | 12/20/2005 | AP

Posted on 12/20/2005 10:45:11 AM PST by Thunder90

Dozens of children in war-torn Chechnya have come down with a mysterious illness that doctors and emergency workers said may have been caused by poisoning. "Right now there are 48 people hospitalized," Akhmed Dzhayrkhanov, deputy head of the emergency situations ministry in Chechnya, told AFP by telephone. "So far we cannot say exactly whether it is a case of poisoning."

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TOPICS: Russia
KEYWORDS: chechnya; poisioning; russia; wot

1 posted on 12/20/2005 10:45:14 AM PST by Thunder90
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To: jb6; GarySpFc

PING


2 posted on 12/20/2005 10:45:43 AM PST by Thunder90
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To: Thunder90

bttt


3 posted on 12/20/2005 10:47:51 AM PST by firewalk
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To: Thunder90

Hey wasn't there a report just yesterday about some very highly radioactive area discovered in chechnya? Could this be radiation? Wonder if someone is playing with dirty bomb material down there.


4 posted on 12/20/2005 10:48:06 AM PST by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos; Cindy
This isn't the first episode I think I read about another episode....let me see if I can find it.

Cindy you got any info on this or another episode recently?

5 posted on 12/20/2005 10:50:08 AM PST by Dog
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To: Mount Athos

Sounds very likley!


6 posted on 12/20/2005 10:51:15 AM PST by jw777
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To: Thunder90

"One of the 16 members of Al-Qaeda terrorist cell, arrested in Spain, is a native Byelorussian, expert in chemical weapon.

According to Spanish Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso, 30-year-old Sergey Malyshev participated in militants’ operations in Chechnya, Pakistan and Afghanistan. "

http://www.regnum.ru/english/562845.html


7 posted on 12/20/2005 10:53:56 AM PST by Mount Athos
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To: jw777

Same thing the Russians are doing in Chechnya will work great in Gaza.

Friday afternoon. Crowded market. A little Ebola virus is dispensed. Blame an Al Queada cell that was trying to sneak it into Israel.



8 posted on 12/20/2005 10:55:29 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Liberal Talking Point - Bush = Hitler ... Republican Talking Point - Let the Liberals Talk)
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To: Thunder90

Found it! I will post exerpts only

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L16353270.htm

Investigators have found nuclear contamination tens of thousands of times above safe levels on the premises of a ruined factory in Russia's Chechnya, officials said on Saturday.

It was not clear why the radioactive source had been kept in the factory, but prosecutors said it posed a severe threat to anyone who came near to it.

Prosecutors said it had raised radiation levels to 58,000 times above normal.

There was no suggestion the radioactive materials could fall into the hands of Chechen militants, although Cobalt-60 has been identified as one of the most likely elements to be used to make a so-called "dirty bomb".


9 posted on 12/20/2005 10:56:47 AM PST by Mount Athos
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To: Thunder90
There is another report on FR of nerve gas poisoning, and I believe this could be the same incident.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1543885/posts?page=16#16
10 posted on 12/20/2005 11:03:31 AM PST by GarySpFc (De Oppresso Liber)
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To: Mount Athos

So what kind of dose rate are we talking about?


11 posted on 12/20/2005 11:05:00 AM PST by Constantine XIII
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To: GarySpFc; marron

"Russian officials said that nearly all the victims, who have been falling ill over the last few days, were young girls, most of them from the northern Chechen villages of Starogladovskaya and Staroshcherdinskaya.

The education ministry said that the two schools in those villages had been put in quarantine."

Hmm..were two girls' schools hit? Islamist attack on education for girls? Happens in Afstan.


12 posted on 12/20/2005 11:08:16 AM PST by Shermy
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To: Shermy
Hmm..were two girls' schools hit? Islamist attack on education for girls? Happens in Afstan.

There are strong connections between the Chechens and Taliban/al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
13 posted on 12/20/2005 11:13:56 AM PST by GarySpFc (De Oppresso Liber)
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To: Thunder90

Ricin?


14 posted on 12/20/2005 11:49:24 AM PST by Calamari (Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
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To: Shermy
put in quarantine

A euphemism for "no one will see them alive again"?

15 posted on 12/20/2005 11:52:02 AM PST by LurkedLongEnough
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To: Thunder90
International Terrorist Reveals Secrets
16 posted on 12/20/2005 12:56:29 PM PST by jb6 (The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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To: Thunder90

It smells like another holocaust by the Stalinist Putin.


17 posted on 12/20/2005 4:23:19 PM PST by Wiz
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