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| ABC News: Yushchenko Aide Alleges KGB Dunnit | |
| 2004-12-12 | |
| Dec. 12, 2004 - A Ukrainian presidential candidate's chief of staff believes "Soviet Union sort of KGB experts" were behind a plot to poison his candidate, the aide told ABC News' "Good Morning America" today. Austrian doctors said Saturday that Viktor Yushchenko, who faces a Dec. 26 runoff in Ukraine against the Kremlin-backed candidate, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, was poisoned with dioxin as he campaigned for president. When asked by ABC News' Bill Weir if the Russian government, and specifically President Vladimir Putin, had anything to do with the poisoning, Yushchenko chief of staff Oleh Rybachuk said: "I am not very positive about government, but what I might say that was Soviet Union sort of KGB experts are clearly involved in this plot." Rybachuk did not directly implicate Prime Minister Yanukovych in the poisoning, which is believed to have happened at a dinner party in September, but said it was a much broader conspiracy. "I wouldn't call this ordered by the prime minister," said Rybachuk. "Let's say it more broadly. It's the regime." Rybachuk added that Yushchenko had been forewarned of the plot. "I actually talked to [Yushchenko] in late July when getting messages from both Ukrainian and Russian ex-secret service agents saying there was a plot and poisoning is number one," he said. Rybachuk said the agents told Yushchenko the goal would not be to kill him but to make him an "invalid" in order to knock him out of the campaign. "We couldn't believe they would dare, but they did," said Rybachuk.
Yushchenko will take a couple of days off before resuming the campaign, said Rybachuk. "The worst is over," said Rybachuk. "He feels great ... [but] he needs rest." | |
| Posted by:Mrs. Davis |
| #3 Ed - from what I've read recently, all that is true, but the possibilities of cancers may be overblown. The worst that was predicted by "experts" was a lifetime of acne/cyst issues, some pain....IIUC sounds like they thought his looks was what attracted his support. Very shallow, hmmmm? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-12-12 9:50:39 PM |
| #2 Rybachuk said the agents told Yushchenko the goal would not be to kill him but to make him an "invalid" in order to knock him out of the campaign. I was wondering why dioxin was used, since I don't think anyone has ever died of dioxin poisoning. It does cause horrible cloracne and bebilitating pain, so the above expanation makes a lot of sense. They thought the Ukrainians would reject him Yushchenko if he looked like a cross between Quasimodo and the Friday the 13th monster. Dioxin is a powerful carcinogen so Yushchenko will probably have a whole range of cancers starting in the next few years. Maybe Dr. Steve will be kind enough to fill us in on the carcinogenic effects and timelines. Try Dioxins-R-Us. Dioxin is a waste product from burning, especially plastics, and many manufacturing processes using chlorine (e.g. paper). So no more huffing the burning trash pile. |
| Posted by: ed 2004-12-12 9:12:41 PM |
| #1 This brings up a good question, can you buy Dioxin at Walmart? Or is it just a tad more difficult to acquire? Who has it? Heh. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-12-12 8:35:26 PM |