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someone in the opposition party most likely
December 08, 2004
From Jeremy Page in Kiev
Doctors at the Austrian clinic that treated Ukraine’s opposition leader confirm there was a plot to kill him
Times OnlineMEDICAL experts have confirmed that Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine’s opposition leader, was poisoned in an attempt on his life during election campaigning, the doctor who supervised his treatment at an Austrian clinic said yesterday.
Doctors at Vienna’s exclusive Rudolfinerhaus clinic are within days of identifying the substance that left Mr Yushchenko’s face disfigured with cysts and lesions, Nikolai Korpan told The Times in a telephone interview.
Specialists in Britain, the United States and France had helped to establish that it was a biological agent, a chemical agent or, most likely, a rare poison that struck him down in the run-up to the presidential election, he said. Doctors needed to examine Mr Yushchenko again at the clinic in Vienna to confirm their diagnosis but were in no doubt that the substance was administered deliberately, he said.
“This is no longer a question for discussion,” Dr Korpan said. “We are now sure that we can confirm which substance caused this illness. He received this substance from other people who had a specific aim.”
Asked if the aim had been to kill him, Dr Korpan said: “Yes, of course.”
This investigation could prove to be very interesting. Who do you think poisened Yushchenko?
someone in the opposition party most likely
I'd be willing to bet our former KGB boy Putin was behind it, whether they can trace it back to him is another thing, will probably be attributed to "opposition elements" and left at that.
Putin is scared less about Ukraine telling Moscow to screw off and going and joining NATO or the EU, and would do anything to make sure it doesn't happen.
That is a true statement...
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From Jeremy Page in Moscow
UKRAINIAN prosecutors are reopening a criminal investigation into the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko, the opposition leader, after doctors confirmed that his disfiguring illness was caused by dioxin.
The inquiry is expected to focus on allegations that the chemical contaminant was given to Mr Yushchenko, possibly in his soup, at a dinner with top officials from the Ukrainian Security Service, the SBU, the night before he fell sick in September.
It will also address troubling questions about whether the poisoning was ordered by his rival, Viktor Yanukovych, the Prime Minister, or even by the Kremlin, which fears that Mr Yushchenko will pull Ukraine out of its strategic orbit if he wins a presidential election.
Mr Yushchenko checked out of the Rudolfinerhaus clinic in Vienna yesterday to resume campaigning for a rerun of the presidential runoff with Mr Yanukovych on December 26, which the opposition leader is now widely expected to win.
Sounds like they're close to finding the source.
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au...5E1702,00.html
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