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Rare poison used on Yushchenko, doctors say
Sydney Morning Herald ^ | December 9, 2004

Posted on 12/08/2004 9:26:16 AM PST by dead

Ukrainian opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko.
Photo: AFP

Ukraine's opposition leader, Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned in an assassination attempt during campaigning in September, a British daily reported yesterday, quoting the doctor who oversaw his treatment.

Doctors at the Rudolfinerhaus clinic in Vienna were close to identifying the substance that left Mr Yushchenko's face disfigured with cysts and lesions, Nikolai Korpan was quoted as telling The Times.

Specialists in Britain, the US and France had helped to establish that it was a biological or chemical agent or, most likely, a rare poison that struck Mr Yushchenko down before the presidential election, Dr Korpan said. Doctors needed to examine him again to confirm their diagnosis, but "we are now sure that we can confirm which substance caused this illness", the doctor said. "He received this substance from other people who had a specific aim."

Asked if the aim had been to kill him, Dr Korpan said: "Yes, of course."

Proof that Mr Yushchenko was deliberately poisoned would be a devastating blow for his rival, the Prime Minister, Viktor Yanukovich, as the two candidates prepare for a repeat of a presidential run-off on December 26, The Times said.

Mr Yushchenko had said recently that he would soon reveal proof that his opponents had tried to assassinate him, but a spokeswoman said he had no plans to travel to Vienna, the newspaper said.

Mr Yushchenko fell ill on September 6 and was taken to Rudolfinerhaus four days later with severe abdominal pain and lesions on his face and trunk, The Times said.

His liver, pancreas and intestines were swollen and his digestive tract covered in ulcers, but doctors could not explain the symptoms.

Against their advice he went back on the campaign trail after a week, but returned to the clinic two weeks later with back pain.

His Austrian doctors had said previously they had no proof of a criminal poisoning.

Nevertheless his campaign staff have insisted the medical exam revealed that Mr Yushchenko's illness had been caused "by a viral infection and chemical substances that are not usually found in food products".

Agence France-Presse


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: conspiracy; ukraine; yushchenko
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the substance that left Mr Yushchenko's face disfigured with cysts and lesions

They apparently also tried to kill Edward James Olmos.

1 posted on 12/08/2004 9:26:16 AM PST by dead
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To: dead

LOL! Can you believe Lorraine Bracco married that mutt?


2 posted on 12/08/2004 9:28:30 AM PST by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: dead

That's not funny.


3 posted on 12/08/2004 9:28:48 AM PST by Hildy (The really great men are always simple and true)
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To: wideawake

Shame on you. Let's see what you look like.


4 posted on 12/08/2004 9:29:27 AM PST by Hildy (The really great men are always simple and true)
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To: dead

Who needs Clancy novels.


5 posted on 12/08/2004 9:29:44 AM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: dead

Rare smacks of KGB. Putins up to his ears in this one.


6 posted on 12/08/2004 9:30:32 AM PST by Pylot
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To: dead

A Russian immigrant poster on another blog that I regularly visit, told us that they were still the same old Commies. (same old dirty tactics) Just underground now.

She said Putin wouldn't have gotten to where he was (in the KGB?) without ruthlessness. He's never fooled her for one minute.


7 posted on 12/08/2004 9:30:58 AM PST by vrwcagent0498 (Mark Levin and Ann Coulter are my patron saints.)
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To: All

Pray for him!


8 posted on 12/08/2004 9:32:18 AM PST by Esther Ruth
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To: wideawake

EJO's politics are worse than his skin!


9 posted on 12/08/2004 9:33:09 AM PST by dead (To: dead - You Sir, are a du troll that needs to go back from whence you came - AxelPaulsenJr)
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To: dead

Are Bulgarians still being use to do Russian 'wet jobs'?


10 posted on 12/08/2004 9:34:46 AM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: Esther Ruth

I will. He sounds like a courageous, fine man.

Whoever did this to him will be paid back by the Almighty. Tenfold.


11 posted on 12/08/2004 9:35:28 AM PST by vrwcagent0498 (Mark Levin and Ann Coulter are my patron saints.)
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To: Hildy

I saw a photo with a lady arm in arm with this guy. I was thinking at the time, "this fellow had a rough puberty". I didn't know how it was caused. I really fell bad for him. The least we want for him is a full recovery, and maybe he'll win, too.


12 posted on 12/08/2004 9:36:31 AM PST by fritzz (Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers)
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To: Hildy
Let's say, for argument's sake, I look exactly like a young Don Knotts or like Horshack from Welcome Back Kotter.

I would still be 1000x better-looking that Olmos.

13 posted on 12/08/2004 9:37:18 AM PST by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: dead

Indeed. He was a big booster of the Sandinistas as I recall.


14 posted on 12/08/2004 9:38:35 AM PST by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: Pylot

Doubt it. If there's one thing the KGB does well it's kill people.
This is much to amateurish for them.


15 posted on 12/08/2004 9:40:09 AM PST by dwilli
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To: Pylot

look if they wanted to kill him he would be dead... Poison and the whole fanfare about attempt at ones life was a PR move pure and simple it was right before the elections comon.


16 posted on 12/08/2004 9:40:45 AM PST by eluminate
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To: wideawake
What a haughty thing to say. He is ruggedly handsome. And some of the most beautiful women think so.


17 posted on 12/08/2004 9:42:35 AM PST by Hildy (The really great men are always simple and true)
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To: dead
OK this Ukrainian thing is confusing, now is this guy with the messed up face the pro-western guy or the pro-russian guy?
Their names are so similar this story has been so hard to follow :(
18 posted on 12/08/2004 9:43:38 AM PST by Echo Talon
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To: Echo Talon

He's the pro-Western one.


19 posted on 12/08/2004 9:45:28 AM PST by vrwcagent0498 (Mark Levin and Ann Coulter are my patron saints.)
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To: eluminate

Please. Of course they poisoned him. Just look at what the doctors had to say and check out the before and after shots of him on Google sometime.

Such a move by a Putin-backed outfit is unacceptable. Putin is NOT the new Czar of Russia. Nor is he charged with the task of bringing back the old Soviet Empire. Putin's way of doing things is over. And someone needs to tell him that. Very loudly.


20 posted on 12/08/2004 9:45:40 AM PST by DaveDCMetro
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