rut roh!!!
Damn.
They aren't even sneaky about it, huh?
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You would think the Russians would have used something that worked faster. Thankfully, he will survive this murder attempt.
Yes, with the KGB out of service, they just have to walk up and drop some Dioxin in his vodka.....!!!!!
This doesn't smell right. Google Dioxin and it doesn't come up like a fast acting poison.
After that attack, the guys face has more pockmarks than the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
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....
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.
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."
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I'll never understand Russian politics. /sarcasm>
someone needs to check out this diagnosis, i think he has " Acute Intermittent Porphyria" It's a blood disorder that in some cases will resemble a photosensitivity of the skin. It will occur in a rapid fashion as well. He should have that checked. He could develop it secondary to a toxin.
Excerpt:
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.
I would like to know if the disfigurement is going to go away or is he disfigured for life?
Just because the poison "failed" to kill him doesn't rule out KGB involvement. These things are often very risky and tenuous, and things often go wrong. Even back in the Cold War the KGB didn't always hit its target.
I wonder how they administered it? The old switcheroo with the drink glasses?
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I wonder if the people who were assigned this assasination attempt are still breathing?
