Tests show Milosevic took wrong drugs (Reuters extensive investigation apparently concluded)

Reuters via Yahoo! ^ | 3/13/06 | Nicola Leske

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From their headline, it appears Reuters has concluded how it all went down. Milosevic “took” the wrong drugs, he wasn’t “given” the wrong drugs, by UN-employed doctors. I guess Slobo just went shopping at the prison pharmacy and randomly prescribed himself some leprosy and tuberculosis drugs (though he had neither condition) and it was just bad luck that those particular random drugs he "took" neutralized the medicines he actually needed to stay alive.

The fact that he wrote a letter claiming he was being poisoned, a day before he died doesn’t really merit further investigation on the part of Reuters. The interviewed some toxicologist from somewhere who said it wasn’t murder. No way it was murder.

[Semper Paratus]

Maybe he couldn't read the prescription warnings in Dutch?

[Tulsa Ramjet]

A meth addict. I knew it.

[george76]

Lead poisoning ?

[AppyPappy]

He was spotted in a Rite-Aid in Danville, Va arguing with the pharmicist about whether his Medicare plan covered leprosy drugs.

[camle]

where did he get them from? who smuggled them in? or were they given to him, by whom and why?

[theDentist]

How long had this "trial" been going on? 3 years? 5? No wonder Saddam wants to have his trial moved there.

[ClearCase_guy]

Morpheus: Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. A prison for your mind. (long pause, sighs) Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back.

(In his left hand, Morpheus shows a blue pill.)

Morpheus: You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. (a red pill is shown in his other hand) You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. (Long pause; Neo begins to reach for the red pill) Remember -- all I am offering is the truth, nothing more. (Neo takes the red pill and swallows it with a glass of water)

[TomGuy]

Maybe the pharmacy got his and Arafat's medications mixed up.

Arafat seemed to have a similar problem with his medications.

[Andy from Beaverton]

Arkancide!!!

[NonValueAdded]

European health care model strikes again. I wonder if a planeload of attorneys is winging its way eastward.

[stm]

It's really a moot point at this stage. The only important thing is the world is free of one more murderous dicatator. I would love to be a fly on the wall at his Judgement Day.

"So, Mr. Milosivic, how about a brief accounting of your 64 years on earth. Tell me again why I should not condemn you to an eternity in hell...."

[elli1]

"I don't think he took his medicines for suicide -- only for his trip to Moscow ... that is where his friends and family are. I think that was his last possibility to escape The Hague," Uges said. "I am so sure there is no murder."

Uges said tests he conducted two weeks ago on Milosevic's blood showed traces of rifampicin -- a drug against leprosy and tuberculosis that would have neutralized other medicines.

Amazing that Uges apparently didn't express even the least amount of curiosity as to how his patient obtained the rifampicin... /s

[maggief]

Zdenko Tomanovic, legal advisor to former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, shows a letter in The Hague, Netherlands, Sunday March 12, 2006, he claims was written by Milosevic the day before he was found dead in his U.N. prison cell in The Hague. Tomanovic said Milosevic's letter claimed a powerful drug used to treat leprosy or tuberculosis had been found in his blood during an examination last January. The letter and a brief cover letter in English, dated March 10, was addressed to the Russian Embassy for forwarding to the Russian foreign minister. Milosevic who orchestrated the Balkan wars of the 1990s and was on trial for war crimes, was found dead in his prison cell at the U.N. detention center near The Hague, the U.N. tribunal said in a statement. Milosevic, 64, appeared to have died of natural causes, a tribunal press officer said. Result for the autopsy to clarify the cause of death are expected Monday. (AP Photo)

[stm]

If 33% of what we heard about Milosevic was true it still puts him in the same league as Hitler, Stalin, Mussoline, Hussein and the rest,

[Fitzcarraldo]

Don't believe everything you read in the western media, particularly regarding the Balkans.

Amen

[Fitzcarraldo]

Milosevic was fighting the expansion of Islam into Europe. That's what I'll remember him for. He's a hero in my book, albiet a flawed one.

Long live Serbia!!!

[The Old Hoosier]

He was spotted in a Rite-Aid in Danville, Va arguing with the pharmicist about whether his Medicare plan covered leprosy drugs.

You owe me a new keyboard and a cup of coffee. :-)