Comments on: Poisoning Scandal Threatening To Turn Into International Incident

By: Dmac

Dmac — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:50:37 +0000

Stalin employed four different people to serve as “taste testers” for all of his food, just to be safe. Putin’s just continuing the grand tradition here.

By: peter

peter — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:45:21 +0000

When Trotsky got killed with an ice axe he died the next day, and when Markov was killed with a poison tipped umbrella he died in four days.

The more things change, the less things change.

By: kevin

kevin — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:02:39 +0000

I think the point of plutonium poisoning is a slow…painful…death that has no antedote. Putin wants his victims to suffer for a long time while contemplating their crime.

By: The Amboy Times

The Amboy Times — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:59:00 +0000

33,000 BA passengers alerted over radiation

Hat tip Drudge. What is it with the Russians and poison? Just a few days ago former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko died from plutonium 210 poisoning , putting the blame squarely on Russian President Vladimir Putin. That story also had

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:30:39 +0000

In any case, it’s interesting. From a legal point, the onus is on GB to prove that Putin authorized it, let alone that the FSB did it. But from the mano-mano perspective, all dissidents are chilled, knowing that Putin has long unstoppable arms.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:22:23 +0000

And it may not be the Russians, but as Christopher Hitchens noted, it seems to be very bad for one’s health to be opposed to either Syria or Putin…

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:09:49 +0000

This story is very interesting Mark. It makes me wonder ow the Russians who are not amateurs in the assassination game would have knowingly used a poison that was traceable (radiation), when there are many other alternatives. I am also very curious to see what the fallout will be if Russian security services are actually implicated in the killing.