Comments on: Anti-terrorism unit takes over investigation into poisoned spy – Weird Story of the Day Dept. http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2006/11/20/anti-terrorism-unit-takes-over-investigation-into-poisoned-spy-weird-story-of-the-day-dept/ General interest observations and true web-log. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:04:59 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Angel H. Wong http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2006/11/20/anti-terrorism-unit-takes-over-investigation-into-poisoned-spy-weird-story-of-the-day-dept/comment-page-1/#comment-375485 Angel H. Wong Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:09:40 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=8096#comment-375485 I bet the Republicans are green with envy! Wait, that's Thallium. I bet the Republicans are green with envy! Wait, that’s Thallium.

]]> By: Ballenger http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2006/11/20/anti-terrorism-unit-takes-over-investigation-into-poisoned-spy-weird-story-of-the-day-dept/comment-page-1/#comment-375194 Ballenger Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:43:07 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=8096#comment-375194 Heck, it's possible the plan here was just "take the guy to lunch and keep buying him sushi", sooner or later he will die from food poisoning or incorrectly sectioned Blow-fish. Sprinkling on some thallium may have been an afterthought. This is a far cry from the bad old days when the KGB went to the other side of the globe to harvest sea snake venom and engineered the "Boris and Natasha Collection" of poison dart enabled umbrellas. Also, what a great quote, "The Russian secret services have not in a long time carried out poisonings or any form of assassination.” What a refreshingly disgusting paradox. Honesty about your assassination history track record. I would have expected a more "new Russia" westernised press release along the lines of "it wasn't actually poison, he swallowed a weather balloon". Heck, it’s possible the plan here was just “take the guy to lunch and keep buying him sushi”, sooner or later he will die from food poisoning or incorrectly sectioned Blow-fish. Sprinkling on some thallium may have been an afterthought. This is a far cry from the bad old days when the KGB went to the other side of the globe to harvest sea snake venom and engineered the “Boris and Natasha Collection” of poison dart enabled umbrellas.

Also, what a great quote, “The Russian secret services have not in a long time carried out poisonings or any form of assassination.”
What a refreshingly disgusting paradox. Honesty about your assassination history track record. I would have expected a more “new Russia” westernised press release along the lines of “it wasn’t actually poison, he swallowed a weather balloon”.

]]> By: RBG http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2006/11/20/anti-terrorism-unit-takes-over-investigation-into-poisoned-spy-weird-story-of-the-day-dept/comment-page-1/#comment-374608 RBG Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:34:01 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=8096#comment-374608 0. "The first is the use of thallium. This makes zero sense at all." Why is that? "Colourless, water-soluble and tasteless, so often pass unnoticed. ... extremely poisonous, and ingestion of more than 10-15mg per kg of body weight can be lethal. Thallium is also used as a rodenticide in some parts of the world." And then there's: "...and even (Thallium) from sniffing contaminated cocaine have been reported." http://tinyurl.com/gjlw3 But the part that unnerved me a bit was: Russian foreign intelligence service spokesperson: "The Russian secret services have not in a long time carried out poisonings or any form of assassination.” Let's start with how long has Russia been Russia? RBG 0. “The first is the use of thallium. This makes zero sense at all.”

Why is that?

“Colourless, water-soluble and tasteless, so often pass unnoticed. … extremely poisonous, and ingestion of more than 10-15mg per kg of body weight can be lethal.

Thallium is also used as a rodenticide in some parts of the world.”

And then there’s:

“…and even (Thallium) from sniffing contaminated cocaine have been reported.”

http://tinyurl.com/gjlw3

But the part that unnerved me a bit was:

Russian foreign intelligence service spokesperson: “The Russian secret services have not in a long time carried out poisonings or any form of assassination.”

Let’s start with how long has Russia been Russia?

RBG

]]> By: Pmitchell http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2006/11/20/anti-terrorism-unit-takes-over-investigation-into-poisoned-spy-weird-story-of-the-day-dept/comment-page-1/#comment-374500 Pmitchell Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:02:16 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=8096#comment-374500 Old Puty Poot had been a very naughty boy this year , I'll bet he only gets a lump of coal in his stocking and this is the man GW said "I looked him in the eye and he is an honest good man we can trust " sometimes my President scares me Old Puty Poot had been a very naughty boy this year , I’ll bet he only gets a lump of coal in his stocking

and this is the man GW said “I looked him in the eye and he is an honest good man we can trust ” sometimes my President scares me

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