Posted on 07/28/2010 9:37:59 AM PDT by Dan B Cooper
An attempt was made to poison a key American adviser involved in the bidding for a multibillion dollar mining contract in Afghanistan by replacing beer in a bottle with sulfuric acid.The little-reported incident occurred in June 2007 but takes on new interest with the publication by the Wikileaks website of an intelligence warning in February 2007 that Pakistan’s ISI spy agency was planning to poison soldiers' alcoholic drinks.
James Yeager, an American geologist who advised Afghanistan's Ministry of Mines, tells the Monitor he returned to his residence in Kabul to find it had been burgled. The intruder took money from a drawer and left behind a bottle of Corona beer.
The Corona bottle sat on his counter for the next two weeks Yeager says, because Corona is one of his least favorite beers.
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So... someone breaks into your house, burgles the place, and then leaves a bottle of beer (in a country where alcohol is illegal in most places) and you leave it there for a couple of weeks because it isn’t your brand?
Dude, intelligent and smart are two seperate things, and you are not smart. That would have been turned over to the cops immediately if I were you, to pull fingerprints if nothing else.
Geologists drink? Who knew?
Corona Beer? Or sulfuric acid? Corona Beer? Or sulfuric acid? Which one? Which one?
Hmmmmmm,,, I can’t decide which is worse,,,,,,,
“...The Corona bottle sat on his counter for the next two weeks Yeager says, because Corona is one of his least favorite beers....”
And he was waiting for the PX to bring in a shipment of fresh limes.
He prefers Dos Equis... he’s the most interesting geologist in the world...
Yeah, I feel the same way about Heineken!
Stay thirsty my friends.
How? As any chem student knows, sulfuric acid has a very strong, biting odor. How could someone drink it without smelling it first?
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Lab report on sample you sent.
Sorry to inform you, your horse
has bladder infection.
Which is worse the acid or Mexicans pissing on the bottles?
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