Do you think the KGB is totally incompentent?
IF they wanted Yushchenko dead, he would be dead.
Yushchenko is now in satisfactory condition and dioxin levels in his liver have returned to normal, Dr. Michael Zimpfer, director of Vienna's private Rudolfinerhaus clinic, said at a news conference.
Do you think the KGB is totally incompentent?
IF they wanted Yushchenko dead, he would be dead.
They've been incompetent before, though it's unusual. Never underestimate the potential for incompetence to screw up even the most foolproof of plans..
A series of tests run over the past 24 hours provided conclusive evidence of the poisoning, Zimpfer said.
"There is no doubt about the fact that Mr. Yushchenko's disease — especially following the results of the blood work — has been caused by a case of poisoning by dioxin," Zimpfer said.
PS. If I had to venture a guess, this wasn't FSB work but more likely the Sluzhba Bespeky Ukrayiny - Ukraine's intelligence service. Possibly a freelancer hired by 'private' interests, perhaps of Russian allegiance..
The KGB was incompetent then (as was everything in the USSR), so are their successor agencies incompetent now. They were butchers, but being a butcher doesn't make one clever.
However, they're not complete buffoons. So perhaps the intent may have been merely to incapacitate him or to scare him into not running or to simply make him too ugly for some of the shallow swing voters. Since the KGB, like everyone else in the USSR, was a bureaucracy, the agents behind this may have simply feared killing him (for who knows who would have stepped up to take his place and avenge the martyr) -- bureaucrats tend to half-measures when faced with tough decisions.